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Animals as instruments of Norwegian imperial authority in the interwar Arctic
Published 2016-01-01“…Reindeer were introduced to the island of South Georgia before World War I as Norwegian whalers turned a space previously uninhabited by humans into the operational hub of a booming Antarctic whaling industry. The successful transplantation of reindeer was followed by less successful attempts to transfer muskoxen from Greenland to Svalbard and the Scandinavian mainland, penguins from the Antarctic to the coast of Norway, and dreams of transferring fur seals from south to north. …”
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INTERVIEW: BRIAN Ó CONCHUBHAIR
Published 2022-09-01“…He cites, as examples: the French revolution and A Tale of Two Cities, and American whaling and Moby Dick. Similarly, he argues, significant historical events relate to one or more key personalities whose thoughts and actions precipitated it: battles are always associated with generals (Washington, Wellington or Lee); political events with statesmen (Gladstone, Webster, Bismarck) and changes in the history of thought with thinkers (Locke, Darwin or Marx). …”
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