Expedition into Empire by Martin Thomas
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.
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The Insanity of Place / The Place of Insanity
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A History of Shaolin
- Nordic Variations of Protestant Governance
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European Empires on a Plate
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A Thousand Years of Rituals
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Folklore and Nation in Britain and Ireland
- Colonial Ambitions and Collecting Anxieties
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German-Speaking Jewish Refugees in Asia, 1930–1950
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Homesickness around the Mediterranean, 1492–1923
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Death in Dublin During the Era of James Joyce’s Ulysses
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Pedagogy as Politics in Rabindranath Tagore's Santiniketan Ashram
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Messianic and Utopian Influences on Imperial Spain
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Travel and Space in Nineteenth-Century Europe
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The Yellow River in Music
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Embodied Labour
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Artists and Intellectuals in Exile in 1970's West Berlin
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Respectability as Moral Map and Public Discourse in the Nineteenth Century
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Reassessing the Transnational Turn
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Libraries, Books, and Collectors of Texts, 1600-1900
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Families, Values, and the Transfer of Knowledge in Northern Societies, 1500-2000
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Historical Disasters in Context
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A History of Sports Video Games
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Living in the City
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Artificial Intelligence before Computers
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Growing Old in a Better World
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Shores, Surfaces and Depths
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Forms of Temporality and Historical Time in the Work of Johann Gottfried Herder
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The Natural History of a Neapolitan Miracle
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Scotland and the Caribbean, c.1740-1833
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Migration, Ethnicity, and Mental Health
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Minor Knowledge and Microhistory
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Neutrality in Twentieth-Century Europe
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Americans Experience Russia
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The Place of the Social Margins, 1350-1750
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Jesuits at the Margins
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Monsters and Borders in the Early Modern Imagination
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The Medieval and Early Modern Garden in Britain
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Anxieties of Belonging in Settler Colonialism
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Cultural Histories of Crime in Denmark, 1500 to 2000
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The Transatlantic Genealogy of American Anglo-Saxonism
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Transnational South America
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War Experience and Memory in Global Cultures Since 1914
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Fascism and the Masses
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Visualizing Jews Through the Ages
"Expedition into Empire succeeds in encouraging scholars both to look more critically at its forms and to recognise that, quite often, the performance of expedition rarely went according to rehearsal"-Ryan T. Jones, Univeristy of Auckland
"Expedition into Empire succeeds in its aim to open a critical dialogue around the phenomenon of the expedition. This collection serves as a ‘stepping-stone’ for future scholarship by setting a course for reapproaching the historiography of crosscultural encounter, exploration, and empire-making." -Natalie Cox, University of Warwick, UK
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| ISBN 13 | 9781138790681 |
| ISBN 10 | 1138790680 |
| Title | Expedition into Empire |
| Author | Martin Thomas |
| Series | Routledge Studies In Cultural History |
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| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Routledge |
| Year published | 2014-09-22 |
| Number of pages | 254 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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