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The quest for the Northwest Passage : knowledge, nation and empire, 1576-1806
- Title
- The quest for the Northwest Passage : knowledge, nation and empire, 1576-1806 / edited by Frédéric Regard.
- Publication
- London : Pickering & Chatto, 2013.
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Details
- Additional Authors
- Regard, Frédéric.
- Description
- x, 189 pages; 24 cm
- Series Statement
- Empires in perspective ; no. 19
- Uniform Title
- Empires in perspective ; no. 19.
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Introduction: the Northwest Passage and the imperial project: history, ideology, myth / Sophie Lemercier-Goddard and Frédéric Regard -- Arctics of empire: the north in Principal navigations (1598-1600) / Mary C. Fuller -- From myth to appropriation: English discourses on the Strait of Anian (1566-1628) / Ladan Niayesh -- 'Not now believed': the textual fate of the Baffin and Bylot expeditions (1615-16) / Catherine Bécasse -- George Best's Arctic mirrors: A true discourse of the late voyages of discoverie ... of Martin Frobisher (1578) / Sophie Lemercier-Goddard -- 'A people of tractable conversation': a reappraisal of Davis's contribution to Arctic scholarship (1585-7) / Marc-Antoine Mahieu and Mickaël Popelard -- Booking a Northwest passage: Thomas James and The strange and dangerous voyage (1633) / I.S. MacLaren -- 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 -- Alexander Mackenzie's search for the Northwest passage: the commercial imperative (1789-93) / Robert Sayre -- Illusion, (self- )delusion: Jeffersons's 'corps of discovery' and the elusive Northwest passage / Gérard Hugues.
- Call Number
- JFE 15-7393
- ISBN
- 9781848932708
- 1848932707
- 1848932715
- 9781848932715
- LCCN
- 2014412060
- OCLC
- 800653172
- Title
- The quest for the Northwest Passage : knowledge, nation and empire, 1576-1806 / edited by Frédéric Regard.
- Imprint
- London : Pickering & Chatto, 2013.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Series
- Empires in perspective ; no. 19Empires in perspective ; no. 19.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Added Author
- Regard, Frédéric.
- Research Call Number
- JFE 15-7393