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Geographies of Discovery in the Twentieth Century
New Spaces of Exploration
Geographies of Discovery in the Twentieth Century
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Description
For many the dawn of the twentieth century ushered in an era where the world map had few if any blank spaces left to discover. The age of exploration was supposedly dead. "New Spaces of Exploration" challenges this assumption. Focusing specifically on exploration in the twentieth century, the authors demonstrate how new technologies and changing geopolitical configurations have ensured that exploration has remained a key feature of our rapidly globalizing world. Ranging widely in their geographical focus - from the Europe and Asia to Australia, and from the polar regions to outer space - they demonstrate the increasing diversity of modern exploration and reveal the continuing political, military, industrial and cultural motivations at play. The result is a major contribution to our understanding of the significance of exploration in the twentieth century. The contributors include: E. Baigent, C. Collis, K. Dodds, F. Driver, M. Godwin, J. Hill, F. Korsmo, F. MacDonald, S. Naylor, J. Ryan, N. Thomas, and K. Yusoff.
Table of Contents
James R Ryan and Simon Naylor
2. 'Deeds not Words'? Life writing and early twentieth-century British polar exploration
Elizabeth Baigent
3. Configuring the Field: photography in early twentieth century Antarctic exploration
Kathryn Yusoff
4. Explorations in the Libyan Desert: William J. Harding King
Nicola J. Thomas and Jude Hill
5. Fieldwork and the Geographical Career: T. Griffith Taylor and the exploration of Australia
Simon Naylor
6. Glaciology, the Arctic, and the US military
Fae L Korsmo
7. Assault on the unknown: Geopolitics, Antarctic science and the International Geophysical
Year
Klaus Dodds
8. 'Britnik': How America made and destroyed Britain's first satellite
Matthew Godwin
9. High Empire: rocketry and the popular geopolitics of space exploration
Fraser MacDonald
10. Walking in your footsteps: 'footsteps of the explorers' expeditions and the contest for
Australian desert space
Christy Collis
11. Afterword
Felix Driver
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Product details
| Published | Dec 18 2009 |
|---|---|
| Format | Paperback |
| Edition | 1st |
| Extent | 320 |
| ISBN | 9781848850170 |
| Imprint | I.B. Tauris |
| Illustrations | 25 bw integrated |
| Dimensions | 234 x 156 mm |
| Series | Tauris Historical Geographical Series |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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