Greenland's future : narratives of natural resource development in the 1900s until the 1960s

• Main Author: Priebe, Janina
• Format: Doctoral or Postdoctoral Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: Umeå universitet, Institutionen för idé- och samhällsstudier 2017
• Subjects: Greenland; modernization; 20th-century history; colonial history; narrative; history of science and ideas; History of Ideas; Idé- och lärdomshistoria; Arctic; Qullissat; greenlandic
• Online Access: http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-142073

This doctoral thesis identifies and analyzes narratives of Greenland's future that emerged in the context of developing and modernizing the dependency's natural resources industries in the 1900s until the 1960s. After almost two centuries of Danish colonial rule, the turn of the 20th centu...