Refugee Crises, 1945—2000: Political and Societal Responses in International Comparison ed. by Jan C. Jensen and Simone Lässig (review)

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success of the latter, “recommitt[ing]” the treaty parties “to an exclusive and strictly bounded Antarctica,” a “conception . . . that has persisted into the present” (p. 142). Antonello’s epilogue reminds us that Antarctica “was not, and is not, a timeless and unchanging region . . . It was invested with new meanings over the 1960s and 1970s, and . . . was thus a very different assemblage of concepts, ideas, histories, sciences, and material things in 1980 than in 1959” (p. 170). He covers a great deal of detail with clarity and concision, and a particular strength of his book is that, while the analysis is never simple, the thread of it is never lost. The Greening of Antarctica will be of obvious interest to any scholar interested in polar studies, but should also appeal to specialists interested in environmental history, diplomatic history, the history of science, and the crafting of cooperative conservationist regimes.