David Day

Antarctica

What Everyone Needs to Know®. Sprachen: Englisch. 21,0 cm / 14,0 cm / 1,3 cm ( B/H/T )
Buch (Softcover), 214 Seiten
EAN 9780190641313
Veröffentlicht Mai 2019
Verlag/Hersteller Oxford University Press, USA
15,90 inkl. MwSt.
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Beschreibung

An accessible and unfortunately timely introduction to the world's melting continent, Antarctica

Portrait

David Day has been a research fellow at Clare College in Cambridge and a Visiting Professor at University College Dublin, he University of Aberdeen, and the Center for Pacific and American Studies at the University of Tokyo. He is currently a research associate at La Trobe University in Melbourne. He is the author of many books, including Conquest: How Societies Overwhelm Others and the award-winning Claiming a Continent: A History of Australia.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. First Contact
2. The Race for Antarctica
3. Imperial Rivalry
4. War on the Ice
5. Science and Discovery
6. Profiting from Antarctica
7. The Antarctic Treaty
8. Global Warming
9. The Future of Antarctica

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