Research Catalog

Title

Reinterpreting exploration : the West in the world / edited by Dane Kennedy.

Publication

New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2014]

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Details

Additional Authors

Kennedy, Dane Keith

Description

xiii, 236 pages; 24 cm.

Summary

"Exploration was a central and perhaps defining aspect of the West's encounters with other peoples and lands. Rather than reproduce celebratory narratives of individual heroism and national glory, this volume focuses on exploration's instrumental role in shaping a European sense of exceptionalism and its iconic importance in defining the terms of cultural engagement with other peoples. In chapters offering broad geographic range, the contributors address many of the key themes of recent research on exploration, including exploration's contribution to European imperial expansion, Western scientific knowledge, Enlightenment ideas and practices, and metropolitan print culture. They reassess indigenous peoples' responses upon first contacts with European explorers, their involvement as intermediaries in the operations of expeditions, and the complications that their prior knowledge posed for European claims of discovery. Underscoring that exploration must be seen as a process of mediation between representation and reality, this book provides a fresh and accessible introduction to the ongoing reinterpretation of exploration's role in the making of the modern world"--

Series Statement

Reinterpreting history

Uniform Title

Reinterpreting history.

Subject

• Discoveries in geography > European
• Exceptionalism > Europe > History
• Indians > First contact with other peoples
• Europe > Territorial expansion

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Introduction Reinterpreting Exploration / Dane Kennedy -- Science and Exploration / Michael F. Robinson -- A Half Century of Shifting Narrative Perspectives on Encounters / Harry Liebersohn -- Exploration and Enlightenment / Philip J. Stern -- Exploration in Print: From the Miscellany to the Newspaper Clare Pettitt -- The Making of British and French Legends of Exploration / Berny Sèbe -- Exploration in Imperial Russia / Willard Sunderland -- Exploring the Pacific World / Jane Samson -- Decentering Exploration in East Africa / Stephen J. Rockel -- The Exploration of Central Asia / Gordon Stewart -- The Historiography of Antarctic Exploration / Stephanie Barczewski

Call Number

JFE 14-1808

ISBN

• 9780199755349 (hc.)
• 0199755345 (hc.)
• 9780199755332 (pbk.)
• 0199755337 (pbk.)

LCCN

2013039968

OCLC

860943998

Title

Reinterpreting exploration : the West in the world / edited by Dane Kennedy.

Publisher

New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2014]

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Reinterpreting history

Reinterpreting history.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Added Author

Kennedy, Dane Keith, editor.

Research Call Number

JFE 14-1808