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• Title:Polar imperative : a history of Arctic sovereignty in North America / Shelagh D. Grant.
  
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• Author/Creator:Grant, Shelagh D. (Shelagh Dawn), 1938-2020.
  
• Published/Created:Vancouver : Douglas & McIntyre, ©2010.
  

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  • Location:LAW LIBRARY (level 3)Where is this?
    
  • Call Number: FC191 .G73 2010
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:Available
    

  • Location:OKANAGAN LIBRARY stacksWhere is this?
    
  • Call Number: FC191 .G73 2010
    
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  • Status:Available
    

   
• Library of Congress Subjects:Jurisdiction, Territorial--Arctic regions--History.
  Sovereignty--Arctic regions--History.
  Arctic regions--International status--History.
  Arctic regions--History.
  
• Description:xiv, 540 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.
  
• Summary:Based on Shelagh Grant?s groundbreaking archival research and drawing on her reputation as a leading historian in the field, Polar Imperative is a compelling overview of the historical claims of sovereignty over this continent?s polar regions. This engaging, timely history examines the unfolding implications of major climate changes; the impact of resource exploitation on the indigenous peoples; the current high-stakes game for control over the adjacent waters of Alaska, Arctic Canada and Greenland; the events, issues and strategies that have influenced claims to authority over the lands and waters of the North American Arctic, from the arrival of the first inhabitants around 3,000 BCE to the present; and sovereignty from a comparative point of view within North America and parallel situations in the European and Asian Arctic.
  
• Notes:Includes bibliographical references (pages [511]-518) and index.
  
• ISBN:9781553654186 (cloth : alk. paper)
  1553654188 (cloth : alk. paper)
  9781553656180 (ebook)
  1553656180 (ebook)
  
• Contents:PART I. SETTING THE STAGE
  1. Defining the Parameters
  2. First Inhabitants, 3000 BC-1500 AD
  3. Merchants and Monarchs, 1500-1814
  PART II. NINETEENTH CENTURY
  4. British Admiralty and the Arctic, 1818-53
  5. Purchase of Alaska, 1818-67
  6. Sale of Rupert's Land 1870
  7. British Transfer of the Arctic Islands, 1870-1900
  PART III. TWENTIETH CENTURY
  8. Perfecting Sovereign Titles, 1900-38
  9. World War II, 1939-45
  10. Postwar and Cold War, 1946-91
  11. Arctic Oil and Aboriginal Rights, 1960-2004
  PART IV. TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY
  12. Beginning of a New Era
  13. Conflicts and Challenges.