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Expedition into Empire: Exploratory Journeys and the Making of the Modern World: Routledge Studies in Cultural History

Editat de Martin Thomas
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 23 mai 2019
Expeditionary journeys have shaped our world, but the expedition as a cultural form is rarely scrutinized. This book is the first major investigation of the conventions and social practices embedded in team-based exploration. In probing the politics of expedition making, this volume is itself a pioneering journey through the cultures of empire. With contributions from established and emerging scholars, Expedition into Empire plots the rise and transformation of expeditionary journeys from the eighteenth century until the present. Conceived as a series of spotlights on imperial travel and colonial expansion, it roves widely: from the metropolitan centers to the ends of the earth. This collection is both rigorous and accessible, containing lively case studies from writers long immersed in exploration, travel literature, and the dynamics of cross-cultural encounter.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780367208837
ISBN-10: 0367208830
Pagini: 242
Ilustrații: 32
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 mm
Greutate: 0.47 kg
Ediția:1
Editura: Taylor & Francis
Colecția Routledge
Seria Routledge Studies in Cultural History

Locul publicării:Oxford, United Kingdom

Public țintă

Postgraduate and Undergraduate

Cuprins

1. What Is an Expedition?: An Introduction  Martin Thomas  2. What Is an Explorer?  Adriana Craciun  3. Settler Colonial Expeditions  Lorenzo Veracini  4. The Expedition as a Cultural Form: On the Structure of Exploratory Journeys as Revealed by the Australian Explorations of Ludwig Leichhardt  Martin Thomas  5. The Theatre of Contact: Aborigines and Exploring Expeditions  Philip Jones  6. Expeditions, Encounters, and the Praxis of Seaborne Ethnography: The French Voyages of La Pérouse and Freycinet  Bronwen Douglas  7. Armchair Expeditionaries: Voyages into the French Musée de la Marine, 1828–78  Ralph Kingston  8. On Slippery Ice: Discovery, Imperium, and the Austro-Hungarian North Polar Expedition (1872-4)  Stephen A. Walsh  9. A Polar Drama: The Australasian Antarctic Expedition of 1911–14  Tom Griffiths  10. The 1928 MacRobertson Round Australia Expedition: Colonial Adventuring in the Twentieth Century  Georgine Clarsen  11. The Expedition’s Afterlives: Echoes of Empire in Travel to Asia  Agnieszka Sobocinska

Recenzii

"Expedition into Empire succeeds in encouraging scholars both to look more critically at its forms and to recognise that, quite often, the performance of expedition rarely went according to rehearsal."-Ryan T. Jones, Univeristy of Auckland
"Expedition into Empire succeeds in its aim to open a critical dialogue around the phenomenon of the expedition. This collection serves as a ‘stepping-stone’ for future scholarship by setting a course for reapproaching the historiography of crosscultural encounter, exploration, and empire-making." -Natalie Cox, University of Warwick, UK

Descriere

Expeditions combined the traversing of space with the production of discourse. The "discoveries" of expeditions, disseminated in the form of maps and reports, books and pictures, would provide the stimulus for invasion, migration, investment and more. While there is an incalculably large literature dealing with exploration and its effects, the expedition itself, a culturally and historically specific way of organising, conducting and inscribing a journey, is surprisingly under-examined. This book proposes that the expedition is as much a cultural form, specific to its epoch, as the novel or the photograph.