American Arctic Exploration: A Social and Cultural History, 1890-1930

• Main Author: Lukens, Robert Douglas
• Other Authors: Kusmer, Kenneth L., Klepp, Susan E.; Isenberg, Andrew C. (Andrew Christian); Nelson, Frederick E.
• Format: Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: Temple University Libraries 2011
• Subjects: American History; Arctic; Exploration; Greenland; Inuit; Polar; Stefansson; inuit
• Online Access: http://cdm16002.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p245801coll10/id/124974

History Ph.D. The Arctic has long held power over the American imagination as a place of otherworldly beauty, life-threatening elements, and dangerous wildlife. Nearing the end of the nineteenth century, in a time of great anxiety about the direction of American society, the region took on new signi...