North Pole / Earth (ePub)
Nature and Culture
(Sprache: Englisch)
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...
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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.
Autoren-Porträt von Bravo Michael Bravo
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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- Autor: Bravo Michael Bravo
- 2019, 208 Seiten, Englisch
- Verlag: Reaktion Books
- ISBN-10: 1789140307
- ISBN-13: 9781789140309
- Erscheinungsdatum: 15.01.2019
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