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 Sèbe
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
Dane Kennedy is the Elmer Louis Kayser Professor of History and International Affairs at George Washington University. He is the author of numerous books, including The Last Blank Spaces: Exploring Africa and Australia.
"Dane Kennedy's collection...marks an important moment in an
ongoing reassessment of the European project of
exploration."--Justin D. Livingstone, Journal of Historical
Geography
"This important book critically re-evaluates what Western
exploration was and did--its intellectual contours and its enduring
consequences--and wonderfully illuminates exploration's multiple
histories, diverse geographies, and material forms. Regional essays
on Russia, the Pacific, Eastern Africa, Central Asia, and
Antarctica are paralleled by thematic attention to exploration and
science, commerce, Enlightenment, print culture, and empire.
Elegantly replacing
unwarranted hagiography with critical historiography, national
narratives with cross-cultural perspectives, the essays in
Reinterpreting Exploration at once demythologize and reinvigorate
debates on
the West's role in the world and the world's impact upon the
West."--Charles W.J. Withers, University of Edinburgh
"Reinterpreting Exploration: The West in the World...marks an
important moment in an ongoing reassessment of the European project
of exploration. Looking simultaneously backwards and
forwards--tracing the development of current research avenues and
gesturing towards new lines of enquiry--the book investigates the
'epistemological foundations' and 'ideological agendas' of
expeditionary culture and the resulting
encounters with non-European peoples and places around the globe.
Since popular literature persists in writing the history of
exploration as the story of heroic and individualistic pioneers,
this book provides a much-needed antidote...Kennedy's collection
has commendable chronological length, regional breadth, and
thematic depth."--Justin D. Livingstone, Journal of Historical
Geography
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