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North Pole
Nature and Culture
Taschenbuch von Michael Bravo
Sprache: Englisch

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The North Pole has long held surprising importance for many of the world's cultures. Interweaving science and history, this book offers the first unified vision of how the North Pole has shaped everything from literature to the goals of political leaders--from Alexander the Great to neo-Hindu nationalists. Tracing the intersecting notions of poles, polarity, and the sacred from our most ancient civilizations to the present day, Michael Bravo explores how the idea of a North Pole has given rise to utopias, satires, fantasies, paradoxes, and nationalist ideologies across every era, from the Renaissance to the Third Reich. The Victorian conceit of the polar regions as a vast empty wilderness--a bastion of adventurous white males battling against the elements--is far from the only polar vision. Bravo paints a variety of alternative pictures: of a habitable Arctic crisscrossed by densely connected networks of Inuit trade and travel routes, a world rich in indigenous cultural meanings; of a sacred paradise or lost Eden among both Western and Eastern cultures, a vision that curiously (and conveniently) dovetailed with the imperial aspirations of Europe and the United States; and as the setting for tales not only of conquest and redemption, but also of failure and catastrophe. And as we face warming temperatures, melting ice, and rising seas, Bravo argues, only an understanding of the North Pole's deeper history, of our conception of it as both a sacred and living place, can help humanity face its twenty-first-century predicament.
The North Pole has long held surprising importance for many of the world's cultures. Interweaving science and history, this book offers the first unified vision of how the North Pole has shaped everything from literature to the goals of political leaders--from Alexander the Great to neo-Hindu nationalists. Tracing the intersecting notions of poles, polarity, and the sacred from our most ancient civilizations to the present day, Michael Bravo explores how the idea of a North Pole has given rise to utopias, satires, fantasies, paradoxes, and nationalist ideologies across every era, from the Renaissance to the Third Reich. The Victorian conceit of the polar regions as a vast empty wilderness--a bastion of adventurous white males battling against the elements--is far from the only polar vision. Bravo paints a variety of alternative pictures: of a habitable Arctic crisscrossed by densely connected networks of Inuit trade and travel routes, a world rich in indigenous cultural meanings; of a sacred paradise or lost Eden among both Western and Eastern cultures, a vision that curiously (and conveniently) dovetailed with the imperial aspirations of Europe and the United States; and as the setting for tales not only of conquest and redemption, but also of failure and catastrophe. And as we face warming temperatures, melting ice, and rising seas, Bravo argues, only an understanding of the North Pole's deeper history, of our conception of it as both a sacred and living place, can help humanity face its twenty-first-century predicament.
Über den Autor
Michael Bravo is a senior lecturer, head of circumpolar history and public policy research at the Scott Polar Research Institute, and a fellow of Downing College, all at the University of Cambridge. He is the author of Narrating the Arctic and Arctic Geopolitics and Autonomy.
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Erscheinungsjahr: 2018
Genre: Geschichte, Importe
Rubrik: Geisteswissenschaften
Medium: Taschenbuch
Inhalt: Kartoniert / Broschiert
ISBN-13: 9781789140088
ISBN-10: 1789140080
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Bravo, Michael
Hersteller: Reaktion Books
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße: 209 x 148 x 18 mm
Von/Mit: Michael Bravo
Erscheinungsdatum: 10.12.2018
Gewicht: 0,544 kg
Artikel-ID: 123795295
Über den Autor
Michael Bravo is a senior lecturer, head of circumpolar history and public policy research at the Scott Polar Research Institute, and a fellow of Downing College, all at the University of Cambridge. He is the author of Narrating the Arctic and Arctic Geopolitics and Autonomy.
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2018
Genre: Geschichte, Importe
Rubrik: Geisteswissenschaften
Medium: Taschenbuch
Inhalt: Kartoniert / Broschiert
ISBN-13: 9781789140088
ISBN-10: 1789140080
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Bravo, Michael
Hersteller: Reaktion Books
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße: 209 x 148 x 18 mm
Von/Mit: Michael Bravo
Erscheinungsdatum: 10.12.2018
Gewicht: 0,544 kg
Artikel-ID: 123795295
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