LASHIPA : history of large scale resource exploitation in polar areas / edited by Louwrens Hacquebord.

Includes bibliographical references.

"This book contains most of the papers presented at the final LASHIPA workshop in St Petersburg, Russia 2-4 November 2009. The workshop was organized to finalize the bilateral LASHIPA Russia-Netherlands project and to discuss possible future cooperation between the participants of the sub-project of the Eurocore Boreas project and the participants of the International Polar Year project Large Scale Historical Exploitation of Polar Areas (LASHIPA). LASHIPA and CEE/Boreas are linked together by different fields of expertise. The common grounds of the two projects are the relation between industrial resource development and science in an international perspective. Knowledge production and knowledge transfer from science to industry as well as between different national communities of resource users are very important in the Arctic as is transfer of legitimacy. All these fields might give opportunities for future research. The different contributions in this book try to answer some of these questions"--Provided by publisher.

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Preface; Introduction; The Organization of Pomor Hunting Expeditions to Spitsbergen in the 18th Century; Productivity and Profitability of Russian Spitsbergen Hunting in the Late 18th Century; Perceptions of Polar Resources: a Comparisonof the Animal Remains of the Russian Hunting Station Kokerineset and the Dutch Whaling Station Smeerenburg; In Search of Profit in the High Arctic. The Commercial Background ofthe Dutch Expedition to Spitsbergen in 1920; Spitsbergen-Imperialists beyond the British Empire.

Winning Coal at 78 ̊ North: Mining, Contingency and the Chaîne Opératoire in Old Longyear CityBarentsburg:The Soviet Period in the History of the Mine; ""The Essence of the Adventure"":Narratives of Arctic Work and Engineeringin the Early 20th Century; Heritage in Our Wake: A Review of Heritage Provisions Managing Svalbard's Industrial Past; A Science & Technology Studies (STS) Approach on the Evolution of the Modern Whaling Industry; The History of Exploration and Exploitation of the Atlantic Arctic and its Geopolitical Consequences.

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