Expedition Into Empire - Exploratory Journeys and the Making of the Modern World

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.

List of contents

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

Product details

• Authors: Martin Thomas
• Assisted by: Martin Thomas (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 22.09.2014
• EAN: 9781138790681
• ISBN: 978-1-138-79068-1
• No. of pages: 254
• Series: Routledge Studies in Cultural History
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; HISTORY / General, HISTORY / Modern / General, HISTORY / World, HISTORY / Social History, Social & cultural history, HISTORY / Expeditions & Discoveries, General & world history, Colonialism & imperialism, Social and cultural history, Colonialism and imperialism, General and world history