5 European Cultures in the High Arctic, 1818-1940

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1. Front Matter i
2. Contents vii
3. List of Figures ix
4. Acknowledgements xv
5. Note on Orthography and Terminology xix
6. Introduction xxi
7. Continuities
8. Geography and Climatic History of Ellesmere Island 7
9. High Arctic Ecosystems and Human History 31
10. Inughuit Culture in the High Arctic, 1800-1900 61
11. The Inuit on Ellesmere Island and Exchanges with Inughuit in the Nineteenth Century 99
12. European Cultures in the High Arctic, 1818-1940 115
13. Circumstance
14. Early Exploration of the High Arctic by Europeans, 1818-90 153
15. "Mine at Last" Robert E. Peary's Polar Expeditions, 1890-1909 221
16. Assertion of Canadian Sovereignty over the High Arctic, 1895-1940 267
17. Adventurers, Big-Game Hunters, and Scientists on Ellesmere Island, 1934-40 307
18. Change
19. Material and Technological Adaptations of the Contact Era 333
20. Intercultural Relations in the Contact Era 365
21. Cultural Contact and High Arctic Ecology, 1818-1940 399
22. Circumstance, Change, and Continuity
23. Circumstance: Relocation of Inuit to the High Arctic, 1951-2000 425
24. Change: Adaptation to New Natural and Cultural Environments, 1951-2000 441
25. Continuity Reasserted: The Inuit, the Seasons, and the Land, 1951-2000 465
26. Ellesmere Island and the Times of History 481
27. Colour Photographs 493
28. Notes 503
29. Bibliography 573
30. Index 601
31. Authors Biogarphy 617