Polar Imperative: A History of Arctic Sovereignty in North America Book

Maps • viii Preface and acknowledgements • ix

Part i: Setting the Stage
1 Defining the Parameters • 5
2 First Inhabitants, 3000bc – 1500ad • 25
3 Merchants and Monarchs, 1500–1814 • 55

Part ii: The Nineteenth Century
4 The British Admiralty and the Arctic, 1818–53 • 97
5 Purchase of Alaska, 1818–67 • 115
6 Sale of Rupert’s Land, 1870 • 135
7 British Transfer of the Arctic Islands, 1870–1900 • 155

Part iii: The Twentieth Century
8 Perfecting Sovereign Titles, 1900–38 • 193
9 World War II, 1939–45 • 247
10 Postwar and Cold War, 1946–91 • 285
11 Arctic Oil and Aboriginal Rights, 1960–2004 • 339

Part iv: The Twenty-First Century
12 Beginning of a New Era • 405
13 Conflicts and Challenges • 435

Notes • 471