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Abstract: This dissertation investigates the causes, development, and the partial resolution of the Antarctic sovereignty dispute that took place between Britain, Argentina, and Chile between 1939 and 1959. It has two interconnected arguments. The first argument is that the dispute had its roots in...
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ftciteseerx:oai:CiteSeerX.psu:10.1.1.390.1236 2023-05-15T13:56:15+02:00 Publication No._____________ Adrian John Howkins Jonathan Brown Diana Davis Supervisor Wm Roger Louis The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives application/pdf http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.390.1236 http://www.lib.utexas.edu/etd/d/2008/howkinsa39777/howkinsa39777.pdf en eng http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.390.1236 http://www.lib.utexas.edu/etd/d/2008/howkinsa39777/howkinsa39777.pdf Metadata may be used without restrictions as long as the oai identifier remains attached to it. http://www.lib.utexas.edu/etd/d/2008/howkinsa39777/howkinsa39777.pdf text ftciteseerx 2016-09-18T00:45:17Z Abstract: This dissertation investigates the causes, development, and the partial resolution of the Antarctic sovereignty dispute that took place between Britain, Argentina, and Chile between 1939 and 1959. It has two interconnected arguments. The first argument is that the dispute had its roots in a clash between British imperialism and South American nationalism, and, as a consequence, ought to be seen as part of the wider history of European decolonization in the years during and after the Second World War. The second argument is that the history of the sovereignty dispute offers an excellent opportunity for “doing environmental history ” due to the relative simplicity of human-nature-culture interactions in Antarctica. By putting these two arguments together, it becomes possible to write an “environmental history of decolonization. ” Within the context of the sovereignty dispute, this dissertation asks the question: what happened to British imperial claims to “dominion over nature ” during the decolonization of the British Empire in the iv mid-twentieth century? Over the course of the sovereignty dispute, Argentina and Chile sought to challenge Britain’s claims to “environmental authority ” in Antarctica Text Antarc* Antarctic Antarctica Unknown Antarctic Argentina The Antarctic |
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