The Quest for the Northwest Passage

Knowledge, Nation and Empire, 1576-1806
1. Auflage 2012
ISBN: 978-1-84893-270-8
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 208 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 470 g

Reihe: Empires in Perspective

These essays trace the history of the British search for the Northwest Passage – the Arctic sea route connecting the Atlantic and Pacific oceans – from the early modern era to the start of the nineteenth century.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Regard, Frédéric

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Geschichte: Expeditionen & Entdeckungen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: The Northwest Passage and the Imperial Project: History, Ideology, Myth, Sophie Lemercier-Goddard, Frédéric Regard; Chapter 1 Arctics of Empire: The North in Principal Navigations (1598–1600), Mary C. Fuller; Chapter 2 From Myth to Appropriation: English Discourses on the Strait of Anian (1566–1628), Ladan Niayesh; Chapter 3 ‘Not Now Believed’: The Textual Fate of the Baffin and Bylot Expeditions (1615–16), Catherine Bécasse; Chapter 4 George Best’s Arctic Mirrors: A True Discourse of the Late Voyages of Discoverie … of Martin Frobisher (1578), Sophie Lemercier-Goddard; Chapter 5 ‘A People of Tractable Conversation’: A Reappraisal of Davis’s Contribution to Arctic Scholarship (1585–7), Marc-Antoine Mahieu, Mickaël Popelard; Chapter 6 Booking a Northwest Passage: Thomas James and the Strange and Dangerovs Voyage (1633), I. S. MacLaren1; Chapter 7 Anthropology as Curiosity: Samuel Hearne’s Journey from Prince of Wales’s Fort … to the Northern Ocean in the Years 1769, 1770, 1771 & 1772 (1795), Nathalie Zimpfer; Chapter 8 Alexander Mackenzie’s Search for the Northwest Passage: The Commercial Imperative (1789–93), Robert Sayre; Chapter 9 Illusion, (Self-)Delusion: Jefferson’s ‘Corps of Discovery’ and the Elusive Northwest Passage (1804–6), Gérard Hugues;

Über Autor(innen)

Frédéric Regard