Svalbardforskning og Svalbardpolitikk 1870-1925. Forskere som politiske aktører
The research and commercial activity in the Scandinavian portion of the Arctic increased appreciably in the last decades of the 19th century and up until the 1920s. Not unexpectedly, the idea arose during this period to bring the largest group of the as yet unclaimed Arctic islands, Spitsbergen, und...
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ftunivtroemsoe:oai:munin.uit.no:10037/4886 2023-05-15T14:53:28+02:00 Svalbardforskning og Svalbardpolitikk 1870-1925. Forskere som politiske aktører Drivenes, Einar-Arne 2012 https://hdl.handle.net/10037/4886 nob nob University of Tromsø Universitetet i Tromsø Nordlit (2012) nr. 29 s. 47-59 FRIDAID 979445 0809-1668 https://hdl.handle.net/10037/4886 URN:NBN:no-uit_munin_4608 openAccess VDP::Humanities: 000::History: 070::Political history: 071 VDP::Humaniora: 000::Historie: 070::Politisk historie: 071 Journal article Tidsskriftartikkel Peer reviewed 2012 ftunivtroemsoe 2021-06-25T17:53:30Z The research and commercial activity in the Scandinavian portion of the Arctic increased appreciably in the last decades of the 19th century and up until the 1920s. Not unexpectedly, the idea arose during this period to bring the largest group of the as yet unclaimed Arctic islands, Spitsbergen, under Norwegian or Swedish control. Norwegian political ambitions in the far north seem to have expanded proportionally with economic and scientific activity. What role did science play in this process? In the contest to win Svalbard, Norwegian authorities deliberately used research results and research activity as justification that Spitsbergen was Norwegian. Also, Spitsbergen researchers worked systematically towards a Norwegian conquest of the archipelago, economic and cultural at first, but ultimately political Article in Journal/Newspaper Arctic Svalbard Spitsbergen University of Tromsø: Munin Open Research Archive Arctic Svalbard |
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The research and commercial activity in the Scandinavian portion of the Arctic increased appreciably in the last decades of the 19th century and up until the 1920s. Not unexpectedly, the idea arose during this period to bring the largest group of the as yet unclaimed Arctic islands, Spitsbergen, under Norwegian or Swedish control. Norwegian political ambitions in the far north seem to have expanded proportionally with economic and scientific activity. What role did science play in this process? In the contest to win Svalbard, Norwegian authorities deliberately used research results and research activity as justification that Spitsbergen was Norwegian. Also, Spitsbergen researchers worked systematically towards a Norwegian conquest of the archipelago, economic and cultural at first, but ultimately political |
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Svalbardforskning og Svalbardpolitikk 1870-1925. Forskere som politiske aktører |
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Svalbardforskning og Svalbardpolitikk 1870-1925. Forskere som politiske aktører |
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Svalbardforskning og Svalbardpolitikk 1870-1925. Forskere som politiske aktører |
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Svalbardforskning og Svalbardpolitikk 1870-1925. Forskere som politiske aktører |
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Svalbardforskning og Svalbardpolitikk 1870-1925. Forskere som politiske aktører |
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svalbardforskning og svalbardpolitikk 1870-1925. forskere som politiske aktører |
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University of Tromsø |
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Arctic Svalbard Spitsbergen |
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Arctic Svalbard Spitsbergen |
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Nordlit (2012) nr. 29 s. 47-59 FRIDAID 979445 0809-1668 https://hdl.handle.net/10037/4886 URN:NBN:no-uit_munin_4608 |
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