Geography Militant Cultures of Exploration and Empire [Hardcover]

Geography Militant is a compelling account of the relations between geographical knowledge, exploration and empire.Acknowledgements.

1. Geographical Knowledge, Exploration and Empire.

2. The Royal Geographical Society and the Empire of Science.

3. Hints to Travellers: Observation in the Field.

4. Missionary of Science: David Livingstone and the Exploration of Africa.

5. Becoming an Explorer: The Martyrdom of Winwood Reade.

6. Exploration by Warfare: Henry Morton Stanley and his Critics.

7. Making Representations: From an African Exhibition to the High Court of Justice.

8. Exploring Darkest England: Mapping the Heart of Empire.

9. Geography Militant and its After-life.

Index.

A valuable contribution to the 'culture of exploration'. Geography militant lives on in advertising, photography, guide books, magazines and- virtually- in our imaginations. Traveller Magazine <!--end-->

Expoliting the divide 'twixt' science and the sensational and pointing to differing geographies of various periods , this well wrought, closely knit book of nine illustrated chapters dwells on the age of exploration, colonization and the concomitant rise of the British Empire and its institutions. A listing of manuscripts consulted, extensive bibliography, and an index complete this rigorous work. Choice

...consistently thoughtful and lively; Felix Driver produces a powerful sense of the complexity and strangeness of his material. Times Literary Supplement.

extremely wide ranging book which raises a multitude of issues , Journal of European Studies.

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