Karen Oslund
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 1201229 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Karen Oslund |
| NOMBRES | Karen |
| APELLIDO | Oslund |
| FIRMA | OSLUND K |
| AFILIACIONES | Towson University |
| VERIFICADO | No |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 9 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 7 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 8 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 1 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2002 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2020 |
| ÍNDICE H | 2 |
Christopher Abram, Evergreen Ash
Greenland in the center
Between 1780 and 1820 crucial changes took place in the economic and cultural relationship between Denmark–Norway and its North Atlantic dependencies. In Greenland, the state imposed a stringent set of social and economic controls, at the same time when the restrictions on trade in Iceland and Northern Norway were relaxed. In 1776 the Royal Greenlandic Trading Company was established, but during the eighteenth century the waters around Greenland …
Janet Martin-Nielsen. Eismitte in the Scientific Imagination
Journal Article Janet Martin-Nielsen. Eismitte in the Scientific Imagination: Knowledge and Politics at the Center of Greenland. Get access Janet Martin-Nielsen. Eismitte in the Scientific Imagination: Knowledge and Politics at the Center of Greenland. (Palgrave Studies in the History of Science and Technology.) New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013. Pp. xii, 214. $95.00. Karen Oslund Karen Oslund Towson University [email protected] Search for othe…
Cultivating the Colonies
Leviathan
Reviewed by: Leviathan: The History of Whaling in America Karen Oslund (bio) Leviathan: The History of Whaling in America. By Eric Jay Dolin. New York: W. W. Norton, 2007. Pp. 479. $27.95. According to the dust jacket, Eric Jay Dolin's Leviathan: The History of Whaling "teems with fascinating vignettes," and, indeed, the book lives up to its billing. Some of these stories make interesting additions to American political and economic history, as w…
Beyond Men and Machines
This essay is a review of the recent literature on polar exploration, focusing closely on two books, S.A. Andrée: The Beginning of Polar Aviation, 1895-1897, by Günther Sollinger, and The Coldest Crucible: Arctic Exploration and American Culture, by Michael F. Robinson. While Robinson uses the public perception of American Arctic explorations to illuminate developments in the political and cultural history of the United States, Sollinger focuses …
The Unending Frontier
Reviewed by: The Unending Frontier: An Environmental History of the Early Modern World Karen Oslund (bio) The Unending Frontier: An Environmental History of the Early Modern World. By John F. Richards. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2003. Pp. xiv+682. $75. The Unending Frontier is an ambitious contribution to the fields of early modern history, world history, and environmental history. John Richards identifies a series of environmental…
Nature in League with Man
This article examines a series of projects and discussions, among the Enlightenment elite in the Danish kingdom, about the need for technological improvement and agricultural reform in Iceland, a distant province of the Danish state in the eighteenth century. One of the most important of these projects was the importation of reindeer from northern Norway to Iceland in the latter half of the eighteenth century, in response to famine conditions and…
Imagining Iceland
This article presents the case of remarkable transformation of the Icelandic landscape in 1783 and 1784 – when a series of volcanic eruptions, earthquakes and natural disasters radically altered the country – as a way of elucidating how the cultural meaning of place and different versions of ‘nature’ develop. It explores some of the contested interpretations of Icelandic nature that followed this crisis, focusing on the narratives of British geol…
Imagining Iceland
This article presents the case of remarkable transformation of the Icelandic landscape in 1783 and 1784 – when a series of volcanic eruptions, earthquakes and natural disasters radically altered the country – as a way of elucidating how the cultural meaning of place and different versions of ‘nature’ develop. It explores some of the contested interpretations of Icelandic nature that followed this crisis, focusing on the narratives of British geol…
Nature in League with Man
This article examines a series of projects and discussions, among the Enlightenment elite in the Danish kingdom, about the need for technological improvement and agricultural reform in Iceland, a distant province of the Danish state in the eighteenth century. One of the most important of these projects was the importation of reindeer from northern Norway to Iceland in the latter half of the eighteenth century, in response to famine conditions and…
Imagining Iceland
This article presents the case of remarkable transformation of the Icelandic landscape in 1783 and 1784 – when a series of volcanic eruptions, earthquakes and natural disasters radically altered the country – as a way of elucidating how the cultural meaning of place and different versions of ‘nature’ develop. It explores some of the contested interpretations of Icelandic nature that followed this crisis, focusing on the narratives of British geol…
The Unending Frontier
Reviewed by: The Unending Frontier: An Environmental History of the Early Modern World Karen Oslund (bio) The Unending Frontier: An Environmental History of the Early Modern World. By John F. Richards. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2003. Pp. xiv+682. $75. The Unending Frontier is an ambitious contribution to the fields of early modern history, world history, and environmental history. John Richards identifies a series of environmental…
Nature in League with Man
This article examines a series of projects and discussions, among the Enlightenment elite in the Danish kingdom, about the need for technological improvement and agricultural reform in Iceland, a distant province of the Danish state in the eighteenth century. One of the most important of these projects was the importation of reindeer from northern Norway to Iceland in the latter half of the eighteenth century, in response to famine conditions and…
Beyond Men and Machines
This essay is a review of the recent literature on polar exploration, focusing closely on two books, S.A. Andrée: The Beginning of Polar Aviation, 1895-1897, by Günther Sollinger, and The Coldest Crucible: Arctic Exploration and American Culture, by Michael F. Robinson. While Robinson uses the public perception of American Arctic explorations to illuminate developments in the political and cultural history of the United States, Sollinger focuses …
Leviathan
Reviewed by: Leviathan: The History of Whaling in America Karen Oslund (bio) Leviathan: The History of Whaling in America. By Eric Jay Dolin. New York: W. W. Norton, 2007. Pp. 479. $27.95. According to the dust jacket, Eric Jay Dolin's Leviathan: The History of Whaling "teems with fascinating vignettes," and, indeed, the book lives up to its billing. Some of these stories make interesting additions to American political and economic history, as w…
Cultivating the Colonies
Janet Martin-Nielsen. Eismitte in the Scientific Imagination
Journal Article Janet Martin-Nielsen. Eismitte in the Scientific Imagination: Knowledge and Politics at the Center of Greenland. Get access Janet Martin-Nielsen. Eismitte in the Scientific Imagination: Knowledge and Politics at the Center of Greenland. (Palgrave Studies in the History of Science and Technology.) New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013. Pp. xii, 214. $95.00. Karen Oslund Karen Oslund Towson University [email protected] Search for othe…
Greenland in the center
Between 1780 and 1820 crucial changes took place in the economic and cultural relationship between Denmark–Norway and its North Atlantic dependencies. In Greenland, the state imposed a stringent set of social and economic controls, at the same time when the restrictions on trade in Iceland and Northern Norway were relaxed. In 1776 the Royal Greenlandic Trading Company was established, but during the eighteenth century the waters around Greenland …
Christopher Abram, Evergreen Ash
History (8 obras) · Geography (6 obras) · Political science (6 obras) · Archaeology (5 obras) · Politics (5 obras) · History (4 obras) · Law (4 obras) · Sociology (4 obras) · Danish (3 obras) · Ecology (3 obras)