The Quest for the Northwest Passage (eBook, PDF)

Knowledge, Nation and Empire, 1576-1806
Redaktion: Regard, Frédéric

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 208
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. Oktober 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317321552
• Artikelnr.: 43480613

Autorenporträt

Frédéric Regard

Inhaltsangabe

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;