A Cold Colonialism

Modern Exploration and the Canadian North

Tina Adcock (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

402 Seiten

2026
University of British Columbia Press (Verlag)
978-0-7748-7013-9 (ISBN)

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Exploration has long been pivotal to southern engagements with northern Canada, but it is most often associated with the nineteenth century or earlier. A Cold Colonialism offers the first extended examination of twentieth-century exploration in the Canadian North. Modern exploration helped southerners establish and maintain distinctive kinds of colonial and settler colonial power over northern Indigenous homelands.

Who explored the North between 1918 and 1965? What forms did exploration take? What did it mean to explorers and others affected by it? Tina Adcock focuses on four representative explorers with richly documented careers: mining engineer George Douglas, surveyor Guy Blanchet, ethnologist Vilhjalmur Stefansson, and filmmaker Richard Finnie.

Despite limited experience in and knowledge of the Canadian North, these explorers helped southern militaries, industries, and governments exert control over northern peoples and their lands. Each also claimed belonging in and authority over the North in ways that still resonate among southern settlers in Canada today.

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.

Introduction Why Look at Explorers? Making Modern Exploration Visible

1 A Community of Interest: How Explorers Became North-Minded and North-Hearted

2 Antimodern Explorers: Industrial Colonization and Change Between the Wars

3 Debunking the Arctic: Exploration and Popular Geographical Education

4 Explorers at War: Navigating Disciplinary and National Borders

5 Canol: A Wartime Project of Exploration

6 The Encyclopedia Arctica: A Cold War Project of Exploration

7 Making Exploration History: Pioneer Pasts and Settler Colonial Futures

Conclusion Hornby, Me, You? How Modern Exploration Endures

Notes; Bibliography; Index

Erscheint lt. Verlag	1.4.2026
Zusatzinfo	33 b&w photos, 1 map
Verlagsort	Vancouver
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	580 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften ► Geografie / Kartografie
ISBN-10	0-7748-7013-3 / 0774870133
ISBN-13	978-0-7748-7013-9 / 9780774870139
Zustand	Neuware