Frédéric Regard

The Quest for the Northwest Passage (eBook, ePUB)

Knowledge, Nation and Empire, 1576-1806

• Format: ePub

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: 9781317321545
• Artikelnr.: 43480612

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;