From Northeast Passage to Northern Sea Route: A History of the Waterway North of Eurasia

Thông tin sách: From Northeast Passage to Northern Sea Route: A History of the Waterway North of Eurasia (Hardcover, 534 trang) – Brill, 2022. Ngôn ngữ: Tiếng Anh.

The notion of a waterway north of Eurasia, conceived in the first half of the sixteenth century, remained only a dream for centuries, due to ice, unmapped coastlines and a lack of geographical knowledge. This volume is the first comprehensive, scholarly account in English of the slow but steady exploration and commercial exploitation of the Siberian coastal waters, and it proves that this was a truly international endeavour. However, in the end, the Northern Sea Route as a through traverse route came to be used primarily by the Soviet Union, for which it became a crucial vehicle for the geopolitical and economic integration of its vast territories. As an international trade route the Northern Sea Route is only today about to win its way, essentially as a result of global warming. This being the case, should we rejoice or despair? Editorial Reviews About the Author Jens Petter Nielsen, Professor emeritus of Northern Studies, UiT The Arctic University of Norway. He has published extensively on Russian and Soviet history and Russian-Norwegian relations, including Sblizhenie. Rossiya i Norvegiya v 1814-1917 godakh (‘Getting closer. Russia and Norway 1914-1917’) (Ves mir, 2017). Edwin Okhuizen is a Dutch historian specialized in Arctic and Russian history, more specific in the history of geographical discovery and maritime exploration, the history of cartography, as well as commercial exploitation and international political relations. Formerly connected to Utrecht University, he is currently acting as an independent researcher preparing his Ph. D.