Bibliograph

Exploration, a very short Introduction, Stewart A. Weaver, University of Rochester

Type

Label

Exploration, a very short Introduction, Stewart A. Weaver, University of Rochester

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references and index

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Exploration

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

874223290

Responsibility statement

Stewart A. Weaver, University of Rochester

Series statement

Very short introductions, 412

Sub title

a very short Introduction

Summary

"This book surveys the history of exploration from the ancient to the modern periods. Globalization has a deeper history than politicians and pundits (and even some scholars) often allow. Wherever trade or faith or industry or empire followed, explorers usually led. Their motives were as many-sided and various as their actions; their legacies are contested and mixed. But none can doubt the significance of explorers to the making of the modern world. Exploration, Weaver argues, happens at the intersection of nature and power. As a cultural practice fraught with multiple and contradictory meanings, it nevertheless often reduces to a particularly adventurous form of political and technological intrusion into unfamiliar, seemingly isolated, and often hostile environments. His dual purpose is to relate some of the adventure--the familiar and the not-so-familiar feats of derring-do--but also to place the explorer and the act of exploration in the largest possible global context: that of the natural history of the earth itself"--, Provided by publisher

Table Of Contents

What is (and is not) Exploration? -- The Peopling of the Earth -- First Forays -- The Age of Exploration -- Exploration and the Enlightenment -- Exploration and Empire -- The Ends of the Earth -- Epilogue: Final Frontiers?

Classification