Author: H. V. Bowen
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 110702014X
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 485
Book Description
A comparative study of how the British managed the expansion of empire in the Atlantic and Indian Ocean.
Britain's Oceanic Empire
Author: H. V. Bowen
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 110702014X
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 485
Book Description
A comparative study of how the British managed the expansion of empire in the Atlantic and Indian Ocean.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 110702014X
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 485
Book Description
A comparative study of how the British managed the expansion of empire in the Atlantic and Indian Ocean.
Geography of the British Isles
Author: William Hughes
Publisher:
ISBN:
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Languages : en
Pages : 88
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Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 88
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A Historical Geography of the British Colonies
Author: Sir Charles Prestwood Lucas
Publisher:
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Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 556
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Publisher:
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Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 556
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Gothic Britain
Author: William Hughes
Publisher: University of Wales Press
ISBN: 1786832348
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 269
Book Description
Coverage of canonical and less-explored texts in fiction, film and museology. Innovative vision of how Gothic evokes the regions of Great Britain. The first work to consider Gothic and the regional experience at length.
Publisher: University of Wales Press
ISBN: 1786832348
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 269
Book Description
Coverage of canonical and less-explored texts in fiction, film and museology. Innovative vision of how Gothic evokes the regions of Great Britain. The first work to consider Gothic and the regional experience at length.
A Historical Geography of the British Colonies: South and East Africa
Author: Sir Charles Prestwood Lucas
Publisher:
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Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 208
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Publisher:
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Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 208
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A Historical Geography of the British Colonies: South and East Africa (3 pts.)
Author: Lucas
Publisher:
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Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 230
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 230
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A Historical Geography of the British Colonies. Vol. 7, India
Author: John Davenport Rogers
Publisher:
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Category : Australasia
Languages : en
Pages : 556
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Publisher:
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Category : Australasia
Languages : en
Pages : 556
Book Description
A Historical Geography of the British Colonies: South and East Africa (3 pts.)
Author: Sir Charles Prestwood Lucas
Publisher:
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Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 556
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Publisher:
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Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 556
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Masters of All They Surveyed
Author: D. Graham Burnett
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 9780226081212
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 340
Book Description
Chronicling the British pursuit of the legendary El Dorado, Masters of All They Surveyed tells the fascinating story of geography, cartography, and scientific exploration in Britain's unique South American colony, Guyana. How did nineteenth-century Europeans turn areas they called terra incognita into bounded colonial territories? How did a tender-footed gentleman, predisposed to seasickness (and unable to swim), make his way up churning rivers into thick jungle, arid savanna, and forbidding mountain ranges, survive for the better part of a decade, and emerge with a map? What did that map mean? In answering these questions, D. Graham Burnett brings to light the work of several such explorers, particularly Sir Robert H. Schomburgk, the man who claimed to be the first to reach the site of Ralegh's El Dorado. Commissioned by the Royal Geographical Society and later by the British Crown, Schomburgk explored and mapped regions in modern Brazil, Venezuela, and Guyana, always in close contact with Amerindian communities. Drawing heavily on the maps, reports, and letters that Schomburgk sent back to England, and especially on the luxuriant images of survey landmarks in his Twelve Views in the Interior of Guiana (reproduced in color in this book), Burnett shows how a vast network of traverse surveys, illustrations, and travel narratives not only laid out the official boundaries of British Guiana but also marked out a symbolic landscape that fired the British imperial imagination. Engagingly written and beautifully illustrated, Masters of All They Surveyed will interest anyone who wants to understand the histories of colonialism and science.
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 9780226081212
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 340
Book Description
Chronicling the British pursuit of the legendary El Dorado, Masters of All They Surveyed tells the fascinating story of geography, cartography, and scientific exploration in Britain's unique South American colony, Guyana. How did nineteenth-century Europeans turn areas they called terra incognita into bounded colonial territories? How did a tender-footed gentleman, predisposed to seasickness (and unable to swim), make his way up churning rivers into thick jungle, arid savanna, and forbidding mountain ranges, survive for the better part of a decade, and emerge with a map? What did that map mean? In answering these questions, D. Graham Burnett brings to light the work of several such explorers, particularly Sir Robert H. Schomburgk, the man who claimed to be the first to reach the site of Ralegh's El Dorado. Commissioned by the Royal Geographical Society and later by the British Crown, Schomburgk explored and mapped regions in modern Brazil, Venezuela, and Guyana, always in close contact with Amerindian communities. Drawing heavily on the maps, reports, and letters that Schomburgk sent back to England, and especially on the luxuriant images of survey landmarks in his Twelve Views in the Interior of Guiana (reproduced in color in this book), Burnett shows how a vast network of traverse surveys, illustrations, and travel narratives not only laid out the official boundaries of British Guiana but also marked out a symbolic landscape that fired the British imperial imagination. Engagingly written and beautifully illustrated, Masters of All They Surveyed will interest anyone who wants to understand the histories of colonialism and science.
A Historical Geography of the British Colonies: pt. 1 South and East Africa. Historical
Author: Sir Charles Prestwood Lucas
Publisher:
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Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 556
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 556
Book Description