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Constructing the polar world: the German encounter with the Arctic and Antarctic

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dc.contributor.authorLuedtke, Brandon Patrick, author
dc.contributor.authorHowkins, Adrian, advisor
dc.contributor.authorJones, Elizabeth, committee member
dc.contributor.authorCooperman, Matthew, 1964-, committee member
dc.coverage.spatialPolar regions
dc.coverage.spatialArctic regions
dc.coverage.spatialAntarctica
dc.coverage.spatialGermany
dc.coverage.temporal1865-1914
dc.date.accessioned2007-01-03T04:40:58Z
dc.date.available2007-01-03T04:40:58Z
dc.date.issued2010
dc.descriptionDepartment Head: Diane Claire Margolf.
dc.description.abstractThis thesis examines how Germans invested the polar environment with both metaphorical and scientific meaning between 1865 and 1914. It argues that German nationalists put the Northern environment to use toward the process of German nation-building in the nineteenth century and maintains that German polar protagonists promoted travel to the Far South for primarily imperial purposes in the early twentieth century. During these years Germans used narratives of travel, science, and industry in various ways to support both the Arctic and Antarctic project. Further, this research contends that doing environmental history of the German exploration of the Polar Regions can reveal wider social, economic, and political priorities pressurizing the German state. By tracing, then, the German construction and representation of polar nature across the late nineteenth century and through the twentieth-century's turn, this thesis insists that German priorities shifted over time as domestic and international circumstances changed. In investigating how the polar environment became increasingly subject to nationalist motivations and imperial ambitions, this thesis hopes to exhibit the earth's Poles as regions where several national destines run alongside one another. To this end, it forwards the Polar Regions as particularly useful sites for examining the intersection of nation-building, empire, and the environment.
dc.format.mediummasters theses
dc.identifier2010_Spring_Luedtke_Brandon.pdf
dc.identifierETDF2010100001HIST
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10217/38366
dc.languageEnglish
dc.language.isoeng
dc.publisherColorado State University. Libraries
dc.relation.ispartof2000-2019
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dc.titleConstructing the polar world: the German encounter with the Arctic and Antarctic
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thesis.degree.disciplineHistory
thesis.degree.grantorColorado State University
thesis.degree.levelMasters
thesis.degree.nameMaster of Arts (M.A.)

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