A Cold Colonialism: Modern Exploration and the Canadian North

Author:   Tina Adcock
Publisher:   University of British Columbia Press
ISBN:  

9780774870122


Pages:   402
Publication Date:   01 June 2025
Format:   Hardback
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A Cold Colonialism: Modern Exploration and the Canadian North


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Author:   Tina Adcock
Publisher:   University of British Columbia Press
Imprint:   University of British Columbia Press
Weight:   0.700kg
ISBN:  

9780774870122


ISBN 10:   0774870125
Pages:   402
Publication Date:   01 June 2025
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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""Adcock's exemplary work is the most comprehensive and insightful examination of twentieth-century exploration and its role in the industrial colonization of the North to date.""-- ""Liza Piper, author of When Disease Came to This Country: Epidemics and Colonialism in Northern North America"" ""Rich in archival material, wide-ranging in its use of sources, and deep in its analysis of historical people and events, A Cold Colonialism is an exceptional work of scholarship.""-- ""Michael F. Robinson, author of The Lost White Tribe: Explorers, Scientists, and the Theory That Changed a Continent""


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Tina Adcock is an assistant professor of history at Simon Fraser University. She is the coeditor (with Edward Jones-Imhotep) of Made Modern: Science and Technology in Canadian History. Her work has appeared in Canadian, American, Swedish, and Norwegian scholarly journals and volumes. She was an associate of the Wilson Institute for Canadian History at McMaster University from 2017 to 2020.

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