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Genre | : Africa, West |
Author | : Richard Lander |
Publisher | : |
Release | : 1832 |
File | : 356 Pages |
ISBN-13 | : HARVARD:32044043261288 |
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Genre | : Africa, West |
Author | : Richard Lander |
Publisher | : |
Release | : 1832 |
File | : 356 Pages |
ISBN-13 | : HARVARD:32044043261288 |
Genre | : Niger River |
Author | : Richard Lander |
Publisher | : |
Release | : 1832 |
File | : 412 Pages |
ISBN-13 | : HARVARD:HN62RC |
Genre | : Africa, West |
Author | : Richard Lemon Lander |
Publisher | : |
Release | : 1833 |
File | : 360 Pages |
ISBN-13 | : GENT:900000193519 |
Genre | : |
Author | : Richard Lemon Lander |
Publisher | : |
Release | : 1832 |
File | : 344 Pages |
ISBN-13 | : OXFORD:555095883 |
Genre | : Niger River |
Author | : Richard Lander |
Publisher | : |
Release | : 1838 |
File | : 388 Pages |
ISBN-13 | : UIUC:30112075864725 |
Genre | : Asia |
Author | : |
Publisher | : |
Release | : 1832 |
File | : 608 Pages |
ISBN-13 | : WISC:89011375516 |
For a British Empire that stretched across much of the globe at the start of the nineteenth century, the interiors of Africa and Australia remained intriguing mysteries. The challenge of opening these continents to imperial influence fell to a proto-professional coterie of determined explorers. They sought knowledge, adventure, and fame, but often experienced confusion, fear, and failure. The Last Blank Spaces follows the arc of these explorations, from idea to practice, from intention to outcome, from myth to reality. Those who conducted the hundreds of expeditions that probed Africa and Australia in the nineteenth century adopted a mode of scientific investigation that had been developed by previous generations of seaborne explorers. They likened the two continents to oceans, empty spaces that could be made truly knowable only by mapping, measuring, observing, and preserving. They found, however, that their survival and success depended less on this system of universal knowledge than it did on the local knowledge possessed by native peoples. While explorers sought to advance the interests of Britain and its emigrant communities, Dane Kennedy discovers a more complex outcome: expeditions that failed ignominiously, explorers whose loyalties proved ambivalent or divided, and, above all, local states and peoples who diverted expeditions to serve their own purposes. The collisions, and occasional convergences, between British and indigenous values, interests, and modes of knowing the world are brought to the fore in this fresh and engaging study.
Genre | : History |
Author | : Dane Kennedy |
Publisher | : Harvard University Press |
Release | : 2013-03-01 |
File | : 365 Pages |
ISBN-13 | : 9780674075016 |
This book reads the narrative of the national politics alongside deeper histories of political and social organization, as well as in relation to competing influences on modern identity formation and inter-group relationships, such as ethnic and religious communities, economic partnerships, and immigrant and diasporic cultures
Genre | : History |
Author | : Toyin Falola |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Release | : 2022 |
File | : 793 Pages |
ISBN-13 | : 9780190050092 |
Originally published in 1980 and here re-issued with an updated preface, this book deals with the role of the horse in the societies of West Africa during the pre-colonial period. It traces the history of its introduction and its diffusion within West Africa, and examines the problems of maintaining horses in such a harsh environment. The use of horses in warfare in analysed but the non-military aspects of the West African horse culture are also discussed, principally the use of horses as tokens of status and wealth. The book includes a review of the decline of the West African horse culture in the 20th century, reflecting the passing of a political system based on warfare and slavery.
Genre | : Social Science |
Author | : Robin Law |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Release | : 2018-08-16 |
File | : 227 Pages |
ISBN-13 | : 9780429954559 |
Genre | : |
Author | : |
Publisher | : |
Release | : 1832 |
File | : 536 Pages |
ISBN-13 | : HARVARD:HXUAE8 |