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Exploration in the age of empire, 1750-1953
This volume examines European exploration and imperial expansion in Africa and Asia, using three themes to recount the experiences and achievements of individual explorers--the motives of the explorers, how changing ideas influenced the conduct and understanding of exploration, and how competition and politics of the European empires were shaped by exploration.
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Reinterpreting exploration : the West in the world
This book provides a fresh and accessible introduction to recent debates about European exploration's role in the making of the modern world. It challenges celebratory narratives of exploration, concentrating instead on its contribution to imperial and scientific agendas and its dependence on indigenous agents.
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Shores of knowledge : new world discoveries and the scientific imagination
Recounts the triumphs and mishaps of Columbus and other explorers, following the naturalists--both famous and obscure--whose investigations of the world's fauna and flora fueled the rise of science and technology that propelled Western Europe towards modernity.
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Heroes of empire
During the decades of empire (1870–1914), legendary heroes and their astonishing deeds of conquest gave imperialism a recognizable human face. Henry Morton Stanley, Pierre Savorgnan de Brazza, Charles Gordon, Jean-Baptiste Marchand, and Hubert Lyautey all braved almost unimaginable dangers among “savage” people for their nation’s greater good. This vastly readable book, the first comparative history of colonial heroes in Britain and France, shows via unforgettable portraits the shift from public veneration of the peaceful conqueror to unbridled passion for the vanquishing hero. Edward Berenson argues that these five men transformed the imperial steeplechase of those years into a powerful “heroic moment.” He breaks new ground by linking the era’s “new imperialism” to its “new journalism”—the penny press—which furnished the public with larger-than-life figures who then embodied each nation’s imperial hopes and anxieties.
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Imagining the Americas in print : books, maps and encounters in the Atlantic world
\"In Imagining the Americas in Print, Michiel van Groesen reveals the variety of ways in which publishers and printers in early modern Europe gathered information about the Americas, constructed a narrative, and used it to further colonial ambitions in the Atlantic world (1500-1700). The essays examine the creative ways in which knowledge was manufactured in printing workshops. Collectively they bring to life the vivid print culture that determined the relationship between the Old World and the New in the Age of Encounters, and chart the genres that reflected and shaped the European imagination, and helped to legitimate ideologies of colonialism in the next two centuries\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Constructing Early Modern Empires: Proprietary Ventures in the Atlantic World, 1500-1750
The role of proprietorships or 'private' colonies in imperial development has not received the attention it deserves, notwithstanding recent scholarly emphasis on 'state-building'. The continued use of these 'private' devices, even as early modern European nation-states grew more potent, is not only interesting, but is indeed normative though invariably missing from modern studies of empire. This collection provides in-depth analyses of the workings of the proprietorships themselves (rather than proprietary colonies) and in studies ranging from South Carolina to Nieuw Nederland to French West Africa to Brasil, broadens this discussion beyond British North America.Contributors include: Mickaël Augeron, Kenneth Banks, Sarah Barber, Philip Boucher, Olivier Caporossi, Leslie Choquette, David Dewar, Jaap Jacobs, Maxine N. Lurie, Debra A. Meyers, L.H. Roper, James O'Neil Spady, Bertrand Van Ruymbeke, Cécile Vidal, and Laurent Vidal.
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Encountering Water in Early Modern Europe and Beyond
Both the Christian Bible and Aristotle's works suggest that water should entirely flood the earth. Though many ancient, medieval, and early modern Europeans relied on these works to understand and explore the relationships between water and earth, sixteenth-century Europeans particularly were especially concerned with why dry land existed. This book investigates why they were so interested in water's failure to submerge the earth when their predecessors had not been. Analyzing biblical commentaries as well as natural philosophical, geographical, and cosmographical texts from these periods, Lindsay Starkey shows that European sea voyages to the southern hemisphere combined with the traditional methods of European scholarship and religious reformations led sixteenth-century Europeans to reinterpret water and earth's ontological and spatial relationships. The manner in which they did so also sheds light on how we can respond to our current water crisis before it is too late.
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Ancient Ocean Crossings
Paints a compelling picture of impressive pre-Columbian
cultures and Old World civilizations that, contrary to many
prevailing notions, were not isolated from one another
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Ancient Ocean Crossings: Reconsidering the Case for Contacts
with the Pre-Columbian Americas , Stephen Jett encourages
readers to reevaluate the common belief that there was no
significant interchange between the chiefdoms and civilizations
of Eurasia and Africa and peoples who occupied the alleged
terra incognita beyond the great oceans. More than a
hundred centuries separate the time that Ice Age hunters are
conventionally thought to have crossed a land bridge from Asia
into North America and the arrival of Columbus in the Bahamas in
1492. Traditional belief has long held that earth’s two
hemispheres were essentially cut off from one another as a result
of the post-Pleistocene meltwater-fed rising oceans that covered
that bridge. The oceans, along with arctic climates and daunting
terrestrial distances, formed impermeable barriers to
interhemispheric communication. This viewpoint implies that the
cultures of the Old World and those of the Americas developed
independently. Drawing on abundant and concrete evidence to
support his theory for significant pre-Columbian contacts, Jett
suggests that many ancient peoples had both the seafaring
capabilities and the motives to cross the oceans and, in fact,
did so repeatedly and with great impact. His deep and broad work
synthesizes information and ideas from archaeology, geography,
linguistics, climatology, oceanography, ethnobotany, genetics,
medicine, and the history of navigation and seafaring, making an
innovative and persuasive multidisciplinary case for a new
understanding of human societies and their diffuse but
interconnected development.
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Encountering Water in Early Modern Europe and Beyond
Both the Christian Bible and Aristotle's works suggest that water should entirely flood the earth. Though many ancient, medieval, and early modern Europeans relied on these works to understand and explore the relationships between water and earth, sixteenth-century Europeans particularly were especially concerned with why dry land existed. This book investigates why they were so interested in water's failure to submerge the earth when their predecessors had not been. Analyzing biblical commentaries as well as natural philosophical, geographical, and cosmographical texts from these periods, Lindsay Starkey shows that European sea voyages to the southern hemisphere combined with the traditional methods of European scholarship and religious reformations led sixteenth-century Europeans to reinterpret water and earth's ontological and spatial relationships. The manner in which they did so also sheds light on how we can respond to our current water crisis before it is too late.
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Imagining the Americas in Print
In Imagining the Americas in Print, Michiel van Groesen reveals the variety of ways in which early modern Europe gathered information and manufactured knowledge about the Americas, and used it to further their colonial ambitions in the Atlantic world.
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