History of the Arctic
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In A History of the Arctic, award-winning polar historian John McCannon provides a far-reaching overview of the region from the Stone Age to the present, examining all of its major aspects from a global perspective. Devoting attention to every Arctic nation – from North America and Greenland to Scandinavia and Russia – this vividly drawn account weaves together topics as diverse as polar exploration and science, Arctic nation-building, the northern environment and the role of indigenous peoples in Arctic history. With Arctic territorial claims and resource extraction assuming ever-greater importance in the twenty-first century, this book includes a timely assessment of the current diplomatic and environmental realities of the region, exposing the increasingly dire risks it is likely to face in the near future. A History of the Arctic is an engagingly written, detail-rich and thoroughly engrossing survey of this region at the top of the world.
John McCannon is Professor of History at Southern New Hampshire University, and has published widely in the field of Arctic history and exploration. He is the author of Red Arctic: Polar Exploration and the Myth of the North in the Soviet Union, 1932-1939 (1998).