Discoveries Explorations And The Imperial Survey

Author : Pramod K. Nayar
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 500 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2022-02-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9789354356506

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‘Discoveries’, Explorations and the Imperial Survey by Pramod K. Nayar Pdf

India and the subcontinent stimulated the curiosity of the British who came to India as traders. Each aspect of life in India - its people, customs, geography, climate, fauna and flora - was documented by British travelers, traders, administrators, soldiers to make sense to the European mind. As they 'discovered' India and occupied it, they also attempted to 'civilise' the natives. The present volumes focus on select aspects of the imperial archives: the accounts of “discovery” and exploration – fauna and flora, geography, climate – the people of the subcontinent, English domesticity and social life in the subcontinent, the wars and skirmishes – including the “Mutiny” of 1857-58 – and the “civilisational mission”. Volume 1 'Discoveries', Explorations and the Imperial Survey consists of documents that deal with England's discovery of India, its exploration and mapping of the subcontinent. The texts collected here are accounts of how the British 'discovered' the subcontinent. The narrative of discovery, with the freshness of the 'new', was couched very often in the rhetoric of wonder. But this sense of wonder, even astonishment in some cases at the variety, magnitude and sheer difference of the land and its people, was tempered over time with a narrative of exploration. If the 'discovery' moment had a surprise, awe and a sense of uncertainty at facing something totally new-which, in many ways, the subcontinent was-in the early writings of the seventeenth century, the tone, emphasis and attitude shifts later on.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2022
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9354356427

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From Discovery to the Civilisation Mission by Anonim Pdf

Author : Nicholas Brownlees
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2019-10-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9781527542556

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The Language of Discovery, Exploration and Settlement by Nicholas Brownlees Pdf

This volume offers the first fully-focused study on the language and discourse employed in historical accounts of discovery, exploration and settlement, stretching from the 16th to 19th centuries, and covering areas as far afield as the Americas, Africa, India, Australasia and the Arctic. In the examination of the discourse (and accompanying paratextual features when present), the contributors make use of qualitative and quantitative analysis in order to identify the manner in which the knowledge disseminators of the time adapted, created and exploited the language of the genre in which they were communicating to inform or persuade contemporary readers. The chapters focus, in particular, on six genres: namely, print news, manuscript correspondence, journals, dictionaries, travel books and geography schoolbooks. Knowledge dissemination is mediated through these six different genres, but, in each case, the genre in question conveys three common aspects of knowledge dissemination: the factual, the personal and the ideological. The focus is, as such, on how domain-specific knowledge is mediated in specialized and popularizing discourse in order to address different stakeholders.

Author : Simon Naylor,James R. Ryan
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2009-12-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9780857715135

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New Spaces of Exploration by Simon Naylor,James R. Ryan Pdf

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. 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.

Author : David Blair
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 818 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1881
Category : Australasia
ISBN : WISC:89095838785

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Cyclopædia of Australasia; Or, Dictionary of Facts, Events, Dates, Persons, and Places Connected with the Discovery, Exploration, and Progress of the British Dominions in the South by David Blair Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Natural Resources Canada
Page : 157 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2024-07-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Geological Survey of Canada, Open File 4111 by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Natural Resources Canada
Page : 63 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2024-07-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Geological Survey of Canada, Open File 2166 by Anonim Pdf

Author : Robin Inglis
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
Page : 505 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2008-04-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9780810864061

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Historical Dictionary of the Discovery and Exploration of the Northwest Coast of America by Robin Inglis Pdf

The Historical Dictionary of the Discovery and Exploration of the Northwest Coast of America tells of the heroic endeavors and remarkable achievements, the endless speculation about a northwest passage, and the fighting and manipulation for commercial advantage that surrounded this terrain. This is done through an introductory essay, a detailed chronology, an extensive bibliography, modern maps and selected historical maps and drawings, and over 400 cross-referenced dictionary entries.

Author : Robert A. Stafford
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2002-07-18
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0521528674

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Scientist of Empire by Robert A. Stafford Pdf

Sir Roderick Murchison (1792-1871) was a giant of the imperial age. His career was tied intimately to the expansion of the political, economic and scientific realm of the British Empire. A founding father of geological science and geographical exploration, he was both President of the Royal Geographical Society and Director-General of the Geological Survey. His identification of the Silurian system in geology - and subsequent prediction of the location of economic riches - are as notable as his patronage of David Livingstone and other figures of Victorian exploration. More than any contemporary, Murchison emerged as the eminent Victorian who 'sold' science to the imperial government, on the grounds of utility as much as prestige. Robert Stafford uses this study of a man's life and work to investigate the bargain struck between science and the forces of imperialism in mid-Victorian Britain. This illuminates the broader, and still present, intimacy between science and government.

Author : D. Graham Burnett
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : History
ISBN : 0226081214

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Masters of All They Surveyed by D. Graham Burnett Pdf

Chronicling the British pursuit of the legendary El Dorado, Masters of All They Surveyed tells the fascinating story of geography, cartography, and scientific exploration in Britain's unique South American colony, Guyana. How did nineteenth-century Europeans turn areas they called terra incognita into bounded colonial territories? How did a tender-footed gentleman, predisposed to seasickness (and unable to swim), make his way up churning rivers into thick jungle, arid savanna, and forbidding mountain ranges, survive for the better part of a decade, and emerge with a map? What did that map mean? In answering these questions, D. Graham Burnett brings to light the work of several such explorers, particularly Sir Robert H. Schomburgk, the man who claimed to be the first to reach the site of Ralegh's El Dorado. Commissioned by the Royal Geographical Society and later by the British Crown, Schomburgk explored and mapped regions in modern Brazil, Venezuela, and Guyana, always in close contact with Amerindian communities. Drawing heavily on the maps, reports, and letters that Schomburgk sent back to England, and especially on the luxuriant images of survey landmarks in his Twelve Views in the Interior of Guiana (reproduced in color in this book), Burnett shows how a vast network of traverse surveys, illustrations, and travel narratives not only laid out the official boundaries of British Guiana but also marked out a symbolic landscape that fired the British imperial imagination. Engagingly written and beautifully illustrated, Masters of All They Surveyed will interest anyone who wants to understand the histories of colonialism and science.

Author : Pramod K. Nayar
Publisher : Bloomsbury Academic India
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2024-03-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9789356408876

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The Imperial Archives by Pramod K. Nayar Pdf

India and the subcontinent stimulated the curiosity of the British who came to India as traders. Each aspect of life in India-its people, customs, geography, climate, flora and fauna-was documented by British travellers, traders, administrators and soldiers to make sense to the European mind. As they 'discovered' India and occupied it, they also attempted to 'civilise' the natives. The present volumes focus on select aspects of the imperial archives: the accounts of 'discovery' and exploration-flora and fauna, geography, climate; the people of the subcontinent; English domesticity and social life in the subcontinent; the wars and skirmishes-including the 'Mutiny' of 1857–1858; and the 'civilisational mission'. Volume 1, 'Discoveries', Explorations and the Imperial Survey, consists of documents that deal with England's discovery of India, its exploration and mapping of the subcontinent. Volume 2, Indian People and Society, includes English studies of Indian languages, people and communities, and the social order. Volume 3, Domesticity, the Social Scene and Leisure, shifts the focus to the English home and social life. Volume 4, Rebellions and Wars, is a collection of accounts of a very different British life in India: as prisoners, under siege and in conditions of war. Volume 5, The 'Civilisational Mission', documents England's social reform and other efforts at 'improving' the colonised. Volume 6, Thugs and Dacoits, documents how the practice of thugee was viewed by the British: as if it symbolised everything that was wrong with the social order in India. These six volumes are a treasure trove of original documents that throw light on the process of colonisation and its contexts, and provide a glimpse into the mind of the colonisers.

Author : John Logan Allen
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 684 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1997-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0803210434

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North American Exploration by John Logan Allen Pdf

The third volume of North American Exploration, covering 1784 to 1914, charts a dramatic shift in the purpose, priorities, and results of the exploration of North America. As the nineteenth century opened, exploration was still fostered by the growth of empire, but by the 1830s commercial interests came to drive most exploratory ventures, particularly through the fur trade. By midcentury, however, as imperial rivalries lessened and the fur trade declined, exploration was driven by the growing scientific spirit of the age?although the science was often conducted in the service of a search for railroad routes or natural resources linked to military concerns. A clear transition took place as the spirit of the Enlightenment gave way to economic imperatives and to the science of the post-Darwinian age and exploration passed beyond discovery and geographical definition. This volume explores the resultant beginnings of an understanding of the continent and its native peoples.

Author : William Gilbert Gosling
Publisher : London : A. Rivers
Page : 716 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1910
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015027956641

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Labrador: Its Discovery, Exploration, and Development by William Gilbert Gosling Pdf

History from the time of the Norsemen to the early 20th century, with chapters on cartography, Northwest Passage, Eskimos, Moravian missions, boundary dispute and Dr. Grenfell.

Author : Mark Hawkins-Dady
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 1024 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9781135314170

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Reader's Guide to Literature in English by Mark Hawkins-Dady Pdf

Reader's Guide Literature in English provides expert guidance to, and critical analysis of, the vast number of books available within the subject of English literature, from Anglo-Saxon times to the current American, British and Commonwealth scene. It is designed to help students, teachers and librarians choose the most appropriate books for research and study.

Author : Alan Day
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2009-06-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9780810863262

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The A to Z of the Discovery and Exploration of Australia by Alan Day Pdf

This engaging reference examines the history of, the search for, and the discovery of Australia, taking full account of the evidence for and the speculation surrounding possible earlier contacts by the Ancient Egyptians, Arabs, and Chinese seamen. Day brings the expeditions to life, expressing the desires that drove great sea captains deeper into turbulent waters searching for caches of spice, silks, and precious metals. Covers a wide variety of topics, including _ Seamen from eight nations _ The recovery of storm wrecked ships _ Diplomatic treaties _ Priority of discovery disputes _ Military and civil explorers and surveyors _ Topographical features _ Geographical terms and places _ Rivers and river system