Fleischer, Jørgen.

A Short History of Greenland.

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Some 4500 years ago, arctic peoples from Can migrated to the largest island in the world as its first inhabitants. They came across the narrow ice-covered sounds between the northernmost parts of Canada and Greenland and sttled at the island’s northern tip near the fjords in the ice-free area of Peary Land. Greenland’s first inhabitants were Stone Ages people. They made tools, knuves, axes, scrapers and burins, fashione from flint.

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INDHOLD: Map of Greenland. – The First Greenlanders. – The Vikings in Greenland. – Churhes and the Bishopric. – Voyages to Vineland. – The Norsemen Disappear. – Greenland Rediscovered. – The Whaling Period. – Hans Egede and the “Savages”. – Inuit Tourists in Denmark. – Godthaab – Colony of Grief. – Fort Nipisat and the North Pole Expedition. – The Moravian Brethren and the Smallpox Epidemic. – New Clonies. – The First Laws for Greenland and the War Period 1807-1814. – Contact th the Peoples of Thule and East Greenland. – The State Monopoly and Trading Posts. – The H. J. Rink Era. – Samuel Kleinschmidt. – East Greenland Colonised and the Inland Ice Conquered. – New Laws for Greenland. – nud Rasmussen and Thule. – Royal Visit and Telegraph. – The great Codfish Venture. – The Golden Age of Poetry and Art. – Greenland During the War. – The Reform of 1950. – The Colony becomes a Province. – Cultural Clashes. – Consciousness Raising. – Home Rule. – Bibliography.

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