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Reinterpreting exploration: the West in the world

By Kennedy , Dane Keith

Book information

Publisher
Oxford University Press
Year
2014
ISBN
9780199755349, 052178140X, 9780199755332, 0199755337, 0199755345
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
3 MB (3618112 bytes)
Series
Reinterpreting history
Pages
xiii, 236 Seiten . : Illustrationen ; 24 cm\0
Time added
2020-07-26 19:24:52
Discoveries in geography--European--History;Entdec

Description

Contents Contributors Introduction Reinterpreting Exploration Dane Kennedy Part One Themes Chapter 1 Science and Exploration Michael F. Robinson Chapter 2 A Half Century of Shifting Narrative Perspectives on Encounters Harry Liebersohn Chapter 3 Exploration and Enlightenment Philip J. Stern Chapter 4 Exploration in Print: From the Miscellany to the Newspaper Clare Pettitt Chapter 5 The Making of British and French Legends of Exploration Berny Sebe Part Two Territories Chapter 6 Exploration in Imperial Russia Willard Sunderland Chapter 7 Exploring the Pacific World Jane Samson Chapter 8 Decentering Exploration in East Africa Stephen J. Rockel Chapter 9 The Exploration of Central Asia Gordon Stewart Chapter 10 The Historiography of Antarctic Exploration Stephanie Barczewski

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