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HIS-1111: Arctic Norway - aspects of history

Utfyllende informasjon

Progamme/schedule fall 2006

Pensum
Arctic Norway

CONTENTS
1. Einar-Arne Drivenes et al, “A Question of Identity”, translated by Michael Drake, in Einar-Arne Drivenes, Marit Anne Hauan and Helge A. Wold, Nordnorsk kulturhistorie, Vol. I. Det gjenstridige landet (Oslo, Gyldendahl Norsk Forlag) pp. 8-17.
2. ed. Niels Lund, Two Voyagers at the Court of King Alfred (York, William Sessions Ltd., 1984), pp. 15-22, 30-33, 43-49, 51,53, notes.
3. Extract from Heimskringla – King Olaf’s fall (2 pages)
4. A History of Norway and the Passion and Miracles of the Blessed Óláfr, translated by Devra Kunin, edited by Carl Phelpstead (Viking Society for Northern Research, University College London, 2001), pp. 5-7, 70-71.
5. Thorstein Vilhjalmsson, “Old Norse Navigation: An Overview”, in ed. Ingi Sigurðsson and Jón Skaptason, Aspects of Arctic and Sub-Arctic history : proceedings of the International Congress on the History of the Arctic and Sub-Arctic Region, Reykjavík, 18-21 June 1998 (Reykjavík, University of Iceland Press, 2000), pp. 362-372.
6. Przemysław Urbańczyk, Medieval Arctic Norway (Warszawa, Semper, 1992), pp. 42-78.
7. Gwyn Jones, A History of the Vikings (Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1984), pp. 315-353, 375-386, 160-161.
8. Alf Ragnar Nielssen, “Farming Expansion North of the Arctic Circle c.1250-1700”, in ed. Ingi Sigurðsson and Jón Skaptason, Aspects of Arctic and Sub-Arctic history : proceedings of the International Congress on the History of the Arctic and Sub-Arctic Region, Reykjavík, 18-21 June 1998 (Reykjavík, University of Iceland Press, 2000) [8 pp.]
9. Olaus Magnus (1555), Description of the Northern Peoples, translated by Peter Fisher and Humphrey Higgins (London , The Hakluyt Society, 1996). Introduction, pp. xxxvi-xxxix; Book I, Chapters 2 & 4; Book 2, Chapter 7; Book 21, Chapters 1, 2, 5, 20, 21 & 28. [17 pp.]
10. Thor B. Arlov, “The Discovery and Early Exploitation of Svalbard. Some Historiographical Notes” in Acta Borealia 1-2005, pp. 1-19.
11. Susan Barr, Norway’s Polar Territories (Oslo, Aschehoug, 1987), pp. 25-29, 48-51.
12. William Mills, Exploring Polar Frontiers: a historical encyclopedia (Oxford, ABC Clio, 2003), entries for Arctic Ocean; Barents Sea; Willem Barents; Bear Island; Vitus Bering; North Pole; Northeast Passage; Northwest Passage; Norway; Spitsbergen; Surveying and Mapping; Svalbard.
13. ed. Mark Nuttall, Encyclopedia of the Arctic (New York, Routledge, 2005), entries for Barents Council; Barents Region; Barents Regional Council; Barents Sea; Bear Island; Jan Mayen; Svalbard; Svalbard Treaty.
14. Rune Haugen, “The witch-hunt in early modern Finnmark” in Acta Borealia, 1-1999, vol. 16, pp. 43-60.
15. Tatjana A. Schrader, “Pomor trade with Norway” in Acta Borealia, 1/2 –1988, pp. 111-117.
16. Gösta H. Liljequist, High Latitudes: A History of Swedish Polar Travels and Research (Stockholm, The Swedish Polar Research Secretariat in collaboration with Streiffert, 1993) pp. 43-62.
17. Rolf Danielsen and Edgar Hovland, “Recovery and growth: the Norwegian economy, 1815-1875” and “Modern Norway takes shape, 1875-1920” in Rolf Danielsen et al, Norway: a history from the Vikings to our own times (Oslo, Scandinavian University Press, 1995), pp. 230-254, 271-296.
18. Steinar Aas, “North Norway – The Frontier of the North?” in Acta Borealia 1998 No. 1, pp. 27-40.
19. W. Martin Conway, The First Crossing of Spitsbergen (London, J. M. Dent, 1897), pp. 27-37, 62-72, 337-349.
20. Urban Wråkberg, “The Politics of Naming: Contested Observations and the Shaping of Geographical Knowledge” in ed. Michael Bravo and Sverker Sörlin, Narrating The Arctic: A Cultural History of Nordic Scientific Practices (Canton MA, Science History Publications/USA, 2002), pp. 155-185.
21. Willy Østreng, Politics in High Latitudes: The Svalbard Archipelago (London, C. Hurst & Company, 1977) pp. 26-28, 67-85.
22. Trygve Mathisen, Svalbard in International Politics 1871-1925 (Oslo, Norsk polarinstitutt, 1954), pp. 172-179 & Trygve Mathisen, Svalbard in the Changing Arctic (Oslo, Gyldendal norsk forlag, 1954), pp. 31-45.
23. Roald Berg, “A Norwegian Policy of the North before World War I?” in Acta Borealia 1994-95, pp. 5-18.
24. Harald Dag Jølle, “The tension between culture and nature: Fridtjof Nansen’s understanding of Arctic minorities” in Acta Borealia, 1-2001, pp. 3-23.
25. Einar Niemi, “North Norwegian Rising! Regionalism and Nation Building in the North, 1900-1940” in ed. Richard Holt, Hilde Lange and Ulrike Spring, Internationalization in the History of Northern Europe (Tromsø, Universitetet i Tromsø, 2000), pp. 37-52
26. Henry Minde, “Assimilation of the Sami – Implementation and Consequences” in Acta Borealia, 2-2003, pp. 121-146.
27. Teemu Ryymin, “Creating Kvenness: identity building among the Arctic Finns in northern Norway” in Acta Borealia, 1-2001, vol 18, pp. 51-64.
28. Randi Rønning Balsvik, “Women in North Norwegian Coastal Societies”, translated from Historisk Tidsskrift 4/1991, pp. 636-653.
29. Andrei Repnevsky, “Norway and the Soviet Union 1917-1985: fear and cooperation”; Sven G. Holtsmark, “Norway and the Soviet Union 1917-1991: neighbours through conflict and cooperation”; Geir Hønneland, “Enthusiasm of the Barents Region and new stereotypes” in Supplement to the Exhibition Catalogue Norway-Russia: Neighbours for a thousand years. English translation of the six introduction articles (Oslo, 2004)
30. Jens Petter Nielsen, “The Barents Region in Historical Perspective” in eds. Olav Schram Stokke & Ola Tunander, The Barents Region Cooperation in Arctic Europe (London, Sage Publications, 1994), pp. 87-100.

· Prince Albert I of Monaco and Norwegian Arctic Research (Tromsø, Norsk polarinstitutt, 2005) to follow.
· Other, short handouts will be distributed in class during the course of the semester.