Rip Bulkeley

The Historiography of the First Russian Antarctic Expedition, 1819-21

Buch

This book looks at the different ways in which Russian historians and authors have thought about their country's first Antarctic expedition (1819-21) over the past 200 years. It considers the effects their discussions have had on Russia's Antarctic policy and may yet have on Antarctica itself. In particular, it examines the Soviet decision in 1949, in line with the cultural policies of late Stalinism, to revise the traditional view of the expedition in order to claim that it was Russian seamen that first sighted the Antarctic mainland in January 1820; this claim remains the official position in Russia today. The author illustrates, however, t… Mehr

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Produktdetails

ISBN: 978-3-030-59548-7
EAN: 9783030595487
Produktnummer: 38808714
Verlag: Springer International Publishing
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2022
Seitenangabe: 348 S.
Masse: H21.0 cm x B14.8 cm x D1.8 cm 451 g
Auflage: 1st ed. 2021
Abbildungen: Paperback
Gewicht: 451

Über den Autor

Rip Bulkeley lives in Oxford, UK, and has published numerous articles on polar history, and on the Bellingshausen expedition in particular, in Polar Record and other journals. His book Bellingshausen and the Russian Antarctic Expedition (Palgrave Macmillan, 2014) was awarded the Anderson Medal by the Society of Nautical Research.