The Last Blank Spaces : : Exploring Africa and Australia / / Dane Kennedy.
For a British Empire that stretched across much of the globe at the start of the nineteenth century, the interiors of Africa and Australia remained intriguing mysteries. The challenge of opening these continents to imperial influence fell to a proto-professional coterie of determined explorers. They...
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Kennedy, Dane, author. The Last Blank Spaces : Exploring Africa and Australia / Dane Kennedy. Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2013] ©2013 1 online resource : 15 halftones, 2 maps, 1 table text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Frontmatter -- Contents -- Maps and Illustrations -- Chapter 1. Continents -- Chapter 2. Sciences -- Chapter 3. Professionals -- Chapter 4. Gateways -- Chapter 5. Logistics -- Chapter 6. Intermediaries -- Chapter 7. Encounters -- Chapter 8. Celebrities -- Epilogue -- Comparative Timeline of African and Australian Expeditions -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Acknowledgments -- Index restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star For a British Empire that stretched across much of the globe at the start of the nineteenth century, the interiors of Africa and Australia remained intriguing mysteries. The challenge of opening these continents to imperial influence fell to a proto-professional coterie of determined explorers. They sought knowledge, adventure, and fame, but often experienced confusion, fear, and failure. The Last Blank Spaces follows the arc of these explorations, from idea to practice, from intention to outcome, from myth to reality. Those who conducted the hundreds of expeditions that probed Africa and Australia in the nineteenth century adopted a mode of scientific investigation that had been developed by previous generations of seaborne explorers. They likened the two continents to oceans, empty spaces that could be made truly knowable only by mapping, measuring, observing, and preserving. They found, however, that their survival and success depended less on this system of universal knowledge than it did on the local knowledge possessed by native peoples. While explorers sought to advance the interests of Britain and its emigrant communities, Dane Kennedy discovers a more complex outcome: expeditions that failed ignominiously, explorers whose loyalties proved ambivalent or divided, and, above all, local states and peoples who diverted expeditions to serve their own purposes. The collisions, and occasional convergences, between British and indigenous values, interests, and modes of knowing the world are brought to the fore in this fresh and engaging study. Issued also in print. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 08. Jul 2019) British Africa History. British Australia History. Explorers Great Britain History. HISTORY / Africa / General. HISTORY / Australia & New Zealand. HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain. HISTORY / Historical Geography. HISTORY / Expeditions & Discoveries. bisacsh Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter E-BOOK GESAMTPAKET / COMPLETE PACKAGE 2013 9783110317350 ZDB-23-DGG Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter E-BOOK PACKAGE HISTORY, POLITICAL SCIENCE, SOCIOLOGY 2013 9783110317121 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter E-BOOK PAKET GESCHICHTE, POLITIKWISS., SOZIOLOGIE 2013 9783110317114 ZDB-23-DPS Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter HUP Complete eBook Package 2011-2014 9783110374889 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter HUP eBook Package 2013 9783110374902 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter HUP eBook Package Backlist 2000-2013 9783110442205 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter HUP eBook Package Backlist 2000-2014 9783110459517 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter HUP eBook Package Backlist 2000-2015 9783110662566 print 9780674048478 https://doi.org/10.4159/harvard.9780674074972 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/cover/covers/9780674074972.jpg |
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Maps and Illustrations -- Chapter 1. Continents -- Chapter 2. Sciences -- Chapter 3. Professionals -- Chapter 4. Gateways -- Chapter 5. Logistics -- Chapter 6. Intermediaries -- Chapter 7. Encounters -- Chapter 8. Celebrities -- Epilogue -- Comparative Timeline of African and Australian Expeditions -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Acknowledgments -- Index |
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