Exploration: a very short introduction

by Weaver, Stewart A.

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Full title :Exploration : a very short introduction / by Stewart A. Weaver.

Summary

"This book surveys the history of exploration from the ancient to the modern periods. Globalization has a deeper history than politicians and pundits (and even some scholars) often allow. Wherever trade or faith or industry or empire followed, explorers usually led. Their motives were as many-sided and various as their actions; their legacies are contested and mixed. But none can doubt the significance of explorers to the making of the modern world. Exploration, Weaver argues, happens at the intersection of nature and power. As a cultural practice fraught with multiple and contradictory meanings, it nevertheless often reduces to a particularly adventurous form of political and technological intrusion into unfamiliar, seemingly isolated, and often hostile environments. His dual purpose is to relate some of the adventure--the familiar and the not-so-familiar feats of derring-do--but also to place the explorer and the act of exploration in the largest possible global context: that of the natural history of the earth itself"--

Edition Statements

Publication Date:2014.

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Oxford University Press
Place of Publication:New York
Language:eng
Publication Date:2014.

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Description:pages cm.

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9780199946952, 0199946957
oclc:ocn887933046
LC Classification:G80
Dewey Decimal:910.9

Machine generated contents note: -- Preface -- List of illustrations -- 1 What is (and is not) Exploration? -- 2 The Peopling of the Earth -- 3 First Forays -- 4 The Age of Exploration -- 5 Exploration and the Enlightenment -- 6 Exploration and Empire -- 7 The Ends of the Earth -- Epilogue: Final Frontiers? -- References -- Further Reading -- Index.

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