A Cold Colonialism

A Cold Colonialism reframes exploration as a modern enterprise – one through which southern Canadians and Americans sought to exert control over northern peoples and their lands.

Tina Adcock is an assistant professor of history at Simon Fraser University. She is the coeditor (with Edward Jones-Imhotep) of Made Modern: Science and Technology in Canadian History. Her work has appeared in Canadian, American, Swedish, and Norwegian scholarly journals and volumes. She was an associate of the Wilson Institute for Canadian History at McMaster University from 2017 to 2020.

Adcock’s exemplary work is the most comprehensive and insightful examination to date of twentieth-century exploration and its role in the industrial colonization of the North.

Michael F. Robinson, author of The Lost White Tribe: Explorers, Scientists, and the Theory That Changed a Continent:

Rich in archival material, wide-ranging in its use of sources, and deep in its analysis of historical people and events, A Cold Colonialism is an exceptional work of scholarship.