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Author : Jacques Arago
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 694 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1823
Category : New South Wales
ISBN : OXFORD:N11168178
Author : Jacques Arago
Publisher : Palala Press
Page : 686 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2018-02-15
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1377520803
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Author : Jacques Arago
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 582 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1823
Category : New South Wales
ISBN : OCLC:220294107
Author : Jacques Arago
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 679 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2013-06-27
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781108061544
An engaging and witty account of the French scientific expedition of 1817-20, published in English in 1823.
Author : Martin Thomas
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2014-09-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317630128
Expeditionary journeys have shaped our world, but the expedition as a cultural form is rarely scrutinized. This book is the first major investigation of the conventions and social practices embedded in team-based exploration. In probing the politics of expedition making, this volume is itself a pioneering journey through the cultures of empire. With contributions from established and emerging scholars, Expedition into Empire plots the rise and transformation of expeditionary journeys from the eighteenth century until the present. Conceived as a series of spotlights on imperial travel and colonial expansion, it roves widely: from the metropolitan centers to the ends of the earth. This collection is both rigorous and accessible, containing lively case studies from writers long immersed in exploration, travel literature, and the dynamics of cross-cultural encounter.
Author : Graham Pascoe
Publisher : Grosvenor House Publishing
Page : 979 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2024-02-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781803816883
The Falklands Saga presents abundant evidence from hundreds of pages of documents in archives and libraries in Buenos Aires, La Plata, Montevideo, London, Cambridge, Stanley, Paris, Munich and Washington DC, some never printed before, many printed here for the first time, in English and, where different, in their original languages, Spanish, French, German, Italian, Latin or Dutch. It provides the facts to correct the fallacies and distortions in accounts by earlier authors. It reveals persuasive evidence that the Falklands were discovered by a Portuguese expedition at the latest around 1518-19, and not by Vespucci or Magellan. It demonstrates conclusively that the Anglo-Spanish agreement of 1771 did not contain a reservation of Spanish rights, that Britain did not make a secret promise to abandon the islands, and that the Nootka Sound Convention of 1790 did not restrict Britain's rights in the Falklands, but greatly extended them at the expense of Spain. For the first time ever, the despairing letters from the Falklands written in German in 1824 to Louis Vernet by his brother Emilio are printed here in full, in both the original German and in English translation, revealing the total chaos of the abortive 1824 Argentine expedition to the islands. This book reveals how tiny the Argentine settlement in the islands was in 1826-33. In April 1829 there were only 52 people, and there was a constant turnover of population; many people stayed only a few months, and the population reached its maximum of 128 only for a few weeks in mid-1831 before declining to 37 people at the beginning of 1833. This work also refutes the falsehood that Britain expelled an Argentine population from the Falklands in 1833. That myth has been Argentina's principal propaganda weapon since the 1960s in its attempts to undermine Falkland Islanders' right to self-determination. In fact Britain encouraged the residents to stay, and only a handful left the islands. A crucial document printed here is the 1850 Convention of Peace between Argentina and Britain. At Argentina's insistence, this was a comprehensive peace treaty which restored "perfect friendship" between the two countries. Critical exchanges between the Argentine and British negotiators are printed here in detail, which show that Argentina dropped its claim to the Falklands and accepted that the islands are British. That, and the many later acts by Argentina described here, definitively ended any Argentine title to the islands. The islands' history is placed in its world context, with detailed accounts of the First Falklands Crisis of 1764-71, the Second Falklands Crisis of 1831-3, the Years of Confusion (1811-1850), and the Third Falklands Crisis of 1982 (the Falklands War), as well as a Falklands perspective on the First and Second World Wars, including the Battle of the Falklands (1914) and the Battle of the River Plate (1939), with extensive details and texts from German sources. The legal status of the Falklands is analysed by reference to legal works, to United Nations resolutions on decolonisation, and to rulings by the International Court of Justice, which together demonstrate conclusively that the islands are British territory in international law and that the Falkland Islanders, who have now (2024) lived in their country for over 180 years and for nine generations, are a unique people who are holders of territorial sovereignty with the full right of external self-determination.
Author : Gary L. Fitzpatrick
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2020-03-09
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317726524
First published in 1987. The cartographic history of Hawaii began with the arrival of explorer and chartmaker Captain James Cook in 1778. Between then and the mid-19th century, visitors to Hawaii produced a rich assortment of charts amid maps depicting the shores, harbors, towns, and volcanoes of the various islands. This volume traces the story of the mapping of Hawaii during the pivotal years in which the indigenous society was radically transformed by the peoples and ideas imported from the West. A major segment of The Early Mapping of Hawaii it examines the contribution of American missionaries in mapping Hawaii. Mostly produced at the seminary school at Lahainaluna, Maui, these maps introduced geographical education into the Hawaiian school system. Lahainaluna graduate S. P. Kalama produced a landmark map of the islands in 1838, one of the most significant maps in Hawaiian history. Nearly one hundred maps, views, portraits, and illustrations are reproduced here. Included are many charts and harbor plans produced by James Cook, William Bligh, George Vancouver, Otto von Kotzebue, Urey Lisiansky, Jean Francois de la Pérouse, Louis Duperrey, and Charles Wilkes. These charts document the early geography of Honolulu, Lahaina, Hilo, and Kailua, as well as many bays and harbors in the islands.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1823
Category : Electronic
ISBN : ONB:+Z181959400
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1823
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BSB:BSB10711263
Author : Alfred Hiatt,Christopher Wortham
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2016-04-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317139454
Terra Australis - the southern land - was one of the most widespread concepts in European geography from the sixteenth to the eighteenth centuries, although the notion of a land mass in the southern seas had been prevalent since classical antiquity. Despite this fact, there has been relatively little sustained scholarly work on European concepts of Terra Australis or the intellectual background to European voyages of discovery and exploration to Australia in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Through interdisciplinary scholarly contributions, ranging across history, the visual arts, literature and popular culture, this volume considers the continuities and discontinuities between the imagined space of Terra Australis and its subsequent manifestation. It will shed new light on familiar texts, people and events - such as the Dutch and French explorations of Australia, the Batavia shipwreck and the Baudin expedition - by setting them in unexpected contexts and alongside unfamiliar texts and people. The book will be of interest to, among others, intellectual and cultural historians, literary scholars, historians of cartography, the visual arts, women's and post-colonial studies.
Author : Harry LIEBERSOHN,Harry Liebersohn
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 401 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2009-06-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9780674040236
An unforgettable voyage filled with delightful characters, dramatic encounters, and rich cultural details, The Travelers' World heralds a moment of intellectual preparation for the modern global era. Harry Liebersohn examines the transformation of global knowledge during the great age of scientific exploration. We now travel effortlessly to distant places, but the questions about perception, truth, and knowledge that these intercontinental mediators faced still resonate.
Author : Raphaële Garrod,Yasmin Haskell
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2019-01-21
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004385191
This volume of essays contributes to our understanding of the ways in which the Jesuits employed emotions to “change hearts”—that is, convert or reform—both in Europe and in the overseas missions.
Author : Otto Latva
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2023-09-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000910483
This book builds upon the extensive study of the historical relationship between sea animals and humans in transatlantic culture during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. It exposes the present understanding of the human relationship with the giant squid not only as too simplistic but also as historically inaccurate. For instance, it redefines the earlier understanding that humans and especially seafarers have understood giant squid as horror-evoking and ugly creatures since the dawn of history and explains the origins of mythical sea monsters such as the Kraken. The book is, however, more than a critical response to previous work. It will point out that animals such as cephalopods, which have largely been defined in biological contexts in recent times, have a fascinating and multivariate past, entangled with the history of humans in many remarkable ways. Hence, this book is not just about perceptions of giant-sized squid or cephalopods, but a historical inquiry into the transatlantic culture from the late eighteenth century to the turn of the twentieth century. It will provide new knowledge about the history of mollusc studies, seafaring culture and more broadly of the relationship between humans and animals during the period.
Author : Public Library of New South Wales
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1280 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1893
Category : Australasia
ISBN : UCAL:$C111573
Author : Public Library of New South Wales
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1284 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1893
Category : Australasia
ISBN : IOWA:31858014037919
