Frozen Assets
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Frozen Assets

British Mining, Exploration, and Geopolitics on Spitsbergen, 1904-53

  1. 480 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Frozen Assets

British Mining, Exploration, and Geopolitics on Spitsbergen, 1904-53

About this book

The focus of this book is the role of Great Britain in the industrial development of Spitsbergen. The primary aim of this study is to explain the British operations on Spitsbergen from a historical international comparative perspective. Hence, the central research question is: What were the driving forces behind the development of the British mining industry on Spitsbergen between 1904 and 1953?

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Information

Publisher
Barkhuis
Year
2014
Print ISBN
9789491431333
eBook ISBN
9789491431692

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Part I: Introduction and Background
  3. 1 Introduction and contextualisation
  4. 2 Britishness
  5. Part II: The Archaeological Image
  6. 3 The Archaeology of Arctic Mining
  7. 4 The Archaeology of Arctic Exploration
  8. Part III: The Historical Image
  9. 5 The Spitzbergen Coal & Trading Co. Ltd. (1904-18)
  10. 6 The Spitzbergen Mining & Exploration Syndicate,Ltd. (1906-11)
  11. 6 The Spitzbergen Mining & Exploration Syndicate, Ltd. (1906-11)
  12. 7 The Northern Exploration Co., Ltd. (1910-34)
  13. 8 The Scottish Spitsbergen Syndicate, Ltd.(1909-53)
  14. Part IV: The Combined Image
  15. 9 Four British companies on Spitsbergen: discussion and conclusion
  16. Acknowledgements
  17. References
  18. Appendix 1
  19. Appendix 2
  20. Appendix 3
  21. English summary
  22. Nederlandse samenvatting