Contesting the Arctic. Politics and Imaginaries in the Circumpolar North, Paperback - Hannes Gerhardt

As climate change makes the Arctic a region of key political interest, so questions of sovereignty are once more drawing international attention.

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCAuthor(s): Dr Peter (Oslo Centre for Urban and Landscape Studies, Norway) HemmersamIllustration(s): 47 bw illus...

Digital media-GIFs, films, TED Talks, tweets, and more-have become integral to daily life and, unsurprisingly, to Indigenous people's strategies fo...

Publisher: Cornell University PressAuthor(s): Camilla HawthorneIllustration(s): 1 Maps; 23 Halftones, black and white; 1 ChartsNumber of pages: 324...

This book develops a comparative study on violence in Jamaica, El Salvador, and Belize based on a theoretical approach, extensive field research, a...

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In The Problem with Work, Kathi Weeks boldly challenges the presupposition that work, or waged labor, is inherently a social and political good. Wh...

Reducere. Shortly after his death in 1957, The New York Times obituary of Peter Freuchen noted that "except for Richard E. Byrd, and despite his foreign begi...

Evaluates the complex ways that Madrid has served as the political, economic, and cultural capital of the Global South from the end of the Franco d...

Edmonds gives a detailed and accurate record of the political careers of prominent North Carolina blacks who held federal, state, county, and munic...

Arctic Mirrors is a vividly rendered history of circumpolar peoples in the Russian empire and the Russian mind.

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Publisher: ibidem-Verlag, Jessica Haunschild u Christian SchonAuthor(s): Valery KonyshevNumber of pages: 192Publication date: 2015Dimensions: 215 x...

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Reducere. An insider account of how scientists unraveled the mystery of the thawing ArcticIn the 1990s, researchers in the Arctic noticed that floating summe...

Long at the margins of global affairs, the Arctic now finds itself at the frontline of issues which will challenge and define our world in the twen...

Publisher: Ugly Duckling PresseNumber of pages: 160Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 172 x 242 x 22Cover type: Paperback / softbackEditor(s): Yevge...

Aligns culture and politics by focusing on an art form that became a darling of the Cuban revolution: dance. In this history of staged performance ...

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By highlighting the dynamic societal and political implications of religious devotion, Beyond Piety and Politics offers a fascinating new theoretic...

Publisher: Manchester University PressAuthor(s): Corinna (Senior Lecturer in Gender and Cultural History) Peniston-BirdIllustration(s): Illustratio...

Reducere. "Into the North Wind" chronicles Jill Homer's record-breaking bicycle ride across Alaska on the Iditarod Trail. Jill is one of those "accidental at...

Energy producing countries are experiencing severe pressures that present their policy-makers with fundamental challenges. The expert international...

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Reducere. The Color of the Land brings the histories of Creek Indians, African Americans, and whites in Oklahoma together into one story that explores the wa...

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Why were some, but not all the Arab mass social protests of 2011 accompanied by relatively quick and nonviolent outcomes in the direction of regime...

Examines the pursuit of orthodoxy, and its consequences for the history of Christianity.Publisher: Boydell & Brewer LtdIllustration(s): 6 b/w illus...

Interdisciplinary collection exploring cities and urban spaces in the context of technological and digital innovation. An approachable discussion o...

Brings together essays that analyse the effects of class conflict and capitalist ideology on contemporary works of US Latino/a literature. The edit...

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In this illuminating study, Steven E. Nash chronicles the history of Reconstruction as it unfolded in the mountains of western North Carolina. Nash...

In this timely study, world renowned Middle Eastern and Western scholars and advisers provide expert analyses of the contemporary affairs of the ME...

Reducere. A handful of celebrated photographs show armed female Cuban insurgents alongside their companeros in Cuba's remote mountains during the revolutiona...

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Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCAuthor(s): Miranda (Independent Scholar, UK) VickersIllustration(s): 3 MapsNumber of pages: 240Publication date...

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Drawing on extensive archival evidence, unpublished personal memoirs, and interviews with former employees, The Joint Arctic Weather Stations analy...

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