Quest for the Northwest Passage - Knowledge, Nation and Empire, 15761806

These essays trace the history of the British search for the Northwest Passage - the Arctic sea route connecting the Atlantic and Pacific oceans - from the early modern era to the start of the nineteenth century.

List of contents

Introduction: The Northwest Passage and the Imperial Project: History, Ideology, Myth, Sophie Lemercier-Goddard, Frédéric Regard; Chapter 1 Arctics of Empire: The North in Principal Navigations (1598-1600), Mary C. Fuller; Chapter 2 From Myth to Appropriation: English Discourses on the Strait of Anian (1566-1628), Ladan Niayesh; Chapter 3 'Not Now Believed': The Textual Fate of the Baffin and Bylot Expeditions (1615-16), Catherine Bécasse; Chapter 4 George Best's Arctic Mirrors: A True Discourse of the Late Voyages of Discoverie ... of Martin Frobisher (1578), Sophie Lemercier-Goddard; Chapter 5 'A People of Tractable Conversation': A Reappraisal of Davis's Contribution to Arctic Scholarship (1585-7), Marc-Antoine Mahieu, Mickaël Popelard; Chapter 6 Booking a Northwest Passage: Thomas James and the Strange and Dangerovs Voyage (1633), I. S. MacLaren1; Chapter 7 Anthropology as Curiosity: Samuel Hearne's Journey from Prince of Wales's Fort ... to the Northern Ocean in the Years 1769, 1770, 1771 & 1772 (1795), Nathalie Zimpfer; Chapter 8 Alexander Mackenzie's Search for the Northwest Passage: The Commercial Imperative (1789-93), Robert Sayre; Chapter 9 Illusion, (Self-)Delusion: Jefferson's 'Corps of Discovery' and the Elusive Northwest Passage (1804-6), Gérard Hugues;

About the author

Frédéric Regard

Summary

These essays trace the history of the British search for the Northwest Passage – the Arctic sea route connecting the Atlantic and Pacific oceans – from the early modern era to the start of the nineteenth century.

Product details

• Authors: Frederic Regard, Frédéric Regard, Frederic (Sorbonne University Regard
• Assisted by: Frédéric Regard (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 21.01.2016
• EAN: 9781138661820
• ISBN: 978-1-138-66182-0
• No. of pages: 208
• Series: Empires in Perspective
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Geosciences > Geography; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; HISTORY / World, HISTORY / Expeditions & Discoveries, Geographical discovery & exploration, 18th century, c 1700 to c 1799, 17th century, c 1600 to c 1699, Geographical discovery and exploration, 16th century, c 1500 to c 1599, c 1500 to c 1600, C 1600 To C 1700, C 1700 To C 1800, Arctic Ocean, History of other geographical groupings and regions, History of other lands