Expeditions in the Long Nineteenth Century: Discovering, Surveying, and Ordering [Paperback]

This book examines the processes of scientific, cultural, political, technical and violent appropriation during the 19^th?century.

PART 1: DISCOVERING

1. Estonians Travelling Around the Globe: The Impact of Family Networks on the Circumnavigation Ventures of Krusenstern and Kotzebue
Anna Ananieva & Alexander Ananyev
2. Scholarship and Unknown Waters. Humboldt the Scholar, Shevchenko the Painter, and Captain Butakov on the Aral Sea, 184849
J?rn Happel
3. Forms of Imperial Knowledge  The Orenburg Steppes as a Cultural Contact Zone around 1830
Clemens G?nther
4. The Menage Expedition to the Philippines: An Unexpected Prelude to Colonial Governance
Mark Rice

PART 2: SURVEYING

5. Hiking Boots and Peasant Shirts: National Science, Self-Fashioning, and the Ukrainophile Tradition of Scholarly Travel
Fabian Baumann & Martin Rohde
6. Consistency or Transformation? Geographical Research Practices on J. J. Reins Expedition to Japan
Tobit Nauheim
7. The Organizational and Financial Aspects of the Russian Academy of Sciences Expeditions in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries
Tatiana Yurievna Feklova

PART 3: ORDERING

8. Hapa Wito! The Narrative Longevity and Instrumentalization of German Wituland: From Explorers and Soldiers of Fortune to Visionaries and Fighters for German Weltmachtstreben
Moritz P?llath
9. Finding the Stone Age. How Prehistory became a Place to Visit in New Guinea
Mira Shah
10. Bringing the World ilӂ