TY  - BOOK
AU  - Grant,Shelagh D.
TI  - Polar imperative: a history of Arctic sovereignty in North America 
SN  - 9781553654186 (acidfree paper)
AV  -  F 1090.5 G759 2010
U1  - 971.9/02 23
PY  - 2010///
CY  - Vancouver, Berkeley
PB  - Douglas & McIntyre
KW  - Jurisdiction, Territorial
KW  - Arctic regions
KW  - History
KW  - Sovereignty
KW  - International status
N1  - Defining the parameters -- First inhabitants, 3000 BC-1500 AD -- Merchants and monarchs, 1500-1814 -- The British admiralty and the Arctic, 1818-53 -- Purchase of Alaska, 1818-67 -- Sale of Rupert's Land, 1870 -- British transfer of the Arctic Islands, 1870-1900 -- Perfecting sovereign titles, 1900-38 -- World War II, 1939-45 -- Postware and Cold War, 1946-91 -- Arctic oil and Aboriginal rights, 1960-2004 -- Beginning of a new era -- Conflicts and challenges
UR  - http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb422891544
UR  - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1302/2012494726-b.html
UR  - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1302/2012494726-t.html
ER  -