Introduction Acknowledgements List of illustrations 1. Science and the Navy 2. The Navy and the Northwest Passage after the Napoleonic Wars: 1817-34 3. Overland to the Arctic, surveyors and naturalists: the Royal Navy and the Hudson's Bay Company 4. Mid-century: the Admiralty manual and the state of Arctic science 5. Constructive rivalry: the Navy and the Hudson's Bay Company: John Franklin and the search expeditions 6. The Arctic crusade: national pride, international affairs, and science 7. Science north: the British Arctic Expedition 1875-6 8. From nationalism to internationalism in science: the International Polar Year 1882-3 9. Science without borders, or scientific territory: imperialism and emergent nationalism before 1918 10. New lands and seas: Vilhjalmur Stefansson: science, territory and government Afterword Bibliography Index.
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