Format:
1 Online-Ressource (320 pages)
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illustrations
Edition:
First edition
Edition:
London Bloomsbury Publishing 2020 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Edition:
Also issued in print
ISBN:
9780755620555
Series Statement:
Tauris historical geographical series
Content:
1. Exploration and the Twentieth Century James R Ryan and Simon Naylor -- 2. 'Deeds not Words'? Life writing and early twentieth-century British polar exploration Elizabeth Baigent -- 3. Configuring the Field: photography in early twentieth century Antarctic exploration Kathryn Yusoff -- 4. Explorations in the Libyan Desert: William J. Harding King Nicola J. Thomas and Jude Hill -- 5. Fieldwork and the Geographical Career: T. Griffith Taylor and the exploration of Australia Simon Naylor -- 6. Glaciology, the Arctic, and the US military Fae L Korsmo -- 7. Assault on the unknown: Geopolitics, Antarctic science and the International Geophysical Year Klaus Dodds -- 8.'Britnik': How America made and destroyed Britain's first satellite Matthew Godwin -- 9.High Empire: rocketry and the popular geopolitics of space exploration Fraser MacDonald -- 10.Walking in your footsteps: 'footsteps of the explorers' expeditions and the contest for Australian desert space Christy Collis -- 11.Afterword Felix Driver -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
Content:
"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."--Bloomsbury Publishing
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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Also issued in print.
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Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
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Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780857731890
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781848850163
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781848850170
Language:
English
DOI:
10.5040/9780755620555
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