An Empire of Air and Water : : Uncolonizable Space in the British Imagination, 175-185 / / Siobhan Carroll.
Planetary spaces such as the poles, the oceans, the atmosphere, and subterranean regions captured the British imperial imagination. Intangible, inhospitable, or inaccessible, these blank spaces—what Siobhan Carroll calls "atopias"—existed beyond the boundaries of known and inhabited places...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2015] ©2015 |
| Year of Publication: | 2015 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (304 p.) :; 6 illus. |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Introduction. Blank Spaces on the Earth
- Chapter 1. Polar Speculations
- Chapter 2. The Language of the Sea
- Chapter 3. The Regions of the Air
- Chapter 4. Underworlds
- Conclusion. “Dislocated Progress”: Atopias in Urban Space
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- Acknowledgments