Since the 18th century, Greenland's geometric center, Eismitte, has been one of the most forbidding but scientifically rich locations in the Arctic. Tracing its history from European contact through the Cold War, this study shows how Eismitte was the setting for scientific knowledge production as well as diplomatic maneuvering.

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Janet Martin-Nielsen is a Postdoctoral Fellow at Aarhus University's Centre for Science Studies, Denmark. She has a PhD from the University of Toronto's Institute for the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology, Canada. Her work has appeared in Annals of Science, the Journal of Historical Geography, History of the Human Sciences, and the Journal for the History of the Behavioral Sciences.

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Book Title: Eismitte in the Scientific Imagination
Book Subtitle: Knowledge and Politics at the Center of Greenland
Authors: Janet Martin-Nielsen
Series Title: Palgrave Studies in the History of Science and Technology
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137375988
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan New York
eBook Packages: Palgrave History Collection, History (R0)
Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Nature America Inc. 2013
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-137-38079-1Published: 18 December 2013
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-47941-2Published: 18 December 2013
eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-37598-8Published: 18 December 2013
Series ISSN: 2730-972X
Series E-ISSN: 2730-9738
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXI, 214
Topics: World History, Global and Transnational History, History of the Americas, History of Science, Social Sciences, general

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Table of contents (6 chapters)

Front Matter

Introduction

A Land Apart

Taming the Ice Sheet

The Longest Trek

It Has Completely Changed

Epilogue

Back Matter

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