Author: Lawrence Dritsas
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 0857718088
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 258
Book Description
"Zambesi" tells the story of David Livingstone's Zambesi Expedition. It exposes the rivalry among some of Victorian Britain's leading establishment figures and institutions - including the Foreign Office, the Royal Society, Royal Geographical Society, British Museum, Kew Gardens and the Admiralty - as abolitionists, scientists, and entrepreneurs sought to promote and protect their differing interests. Making use of letters, documents and materials neglected by previous writers and researchers, the author reveals how tensions arose from the very beginning between those in pursuit of knowledge for its own sake and the proponents of the civilizing missions who saw scientific knowledge as the utilitarian means to a social end. The result is an exciting story involving one of England's most feted Victorian heroes that offers important new insights in the practice and politics of expeditionary science in Victorian England. This is the definitive account of the expedition to date.
Zambesi
Author: Lawrence Dritsas
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 0857718088
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 258
Book Description
"Zambesi" tells the story of David Livingstone's Zambesi Expedition. It exposes the rivalry among some of Victorian Britain's leading establishment figures and institutions - including the Foreign Office, the Royal Society, Royal Geographical Society, British Museum, Kew Gardens and the Admiralty - as abolitionists, scientists, and entrepreneurs sought to promote and protect their differing interests. Making use of letters, documents and materials neglected by previous writers and researchers, the author reveals how tensions arose from the very beginning between those in pursuit of knowledge for its own sake and the proponents of the civilizing missions who saw scientific knowledge as the utilitarian means to a social end. The result is an exciting story involving one of England's most feted Victorian heroes that offers important new insights in the practice and politics of expeditionary science in Victorian England. This is the definitive account of the expedition to date.
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 0857718088
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 258
Book Description
"Zambesi" tells the story of David Livingstone's Zambesi Expedition. It exposes the rivalry among some of Victorian Britain's leading establishment figures and institutions - including the Foreign Office, the Royal Society, Royal Geographical Society, British Museum, Kew Gardens and the Admiralty - as abolitionists, scientists, and entrepreneurs sought to promote and protect their differing interests. Making use of letters, documents and materials neglected by previous writers and researchers, the author reveals how tensions arose from the very beginning between those in pursuit of knowledge for its own sake and the proponents of the civilizing missions who saw scientific knowledge as the utilitarian means to a social end. The result is an exciting story involving one of England's most feted Victorian heroes that offers important new insights in the practice and politics of expeditionary science in Victorian England. This is the definitive account of the expedition to date.
The Zambesi Journal and Letters of Dr. John Kirk, 1858-63
Author: Sir John Kirk
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Africa, Central
Languages : en
Pages : 348
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Africa, Central
Languages : en
Pages : 348
Book Description
The Zambesi Journal and Letters of Dr. John Kirk, 1858-63
Author: Sir John Kirk
Publisher: Edinburgh : Oliver & Boyd
ISBN:
Category : Africa, Central
Languages : en
Pages : 366
Book Description
Publisher: Edinburgh : Oliver & Boyd
ISBN:
Category : Africa, Central
Languages : en
Pages : 366
Book Description
David Livingstone
Author: Andrew C. Ross
Publisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 9781852855659
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 300
Book Description
Now in paperback, Ross's biography is already established as the leading authority on its subject. >
Publisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 9781852855659
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 300
Book Description
Now in paperback, Ross's biography is already established as the leading authority on its subject. >
Geography and Imperialism, 1820-1940
Author: Morag Bell
Publisher: Manchester University Press
ISBN: 9780719039348
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 360
Book Description
An examination of how European imperialism was facilitated and challenged from 1820 to 1920. With reference to geographical science, the authors add to multi-disciplinary debates on the complex cultural, ideological and intellectual bases of European imper
Publisher: Manchester University Press
ISBN: 9780719039348
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 360
Book Description
An examination of how European imperialism was facilitated and challenged from 1820 to 1920. With reference to geographical science, the authors add to multi-disciplinary debates on the complex cultural, ideological and intellectual bases of European imper
Flora of Tropical Africa
Author: Daniel Oliver
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 546
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 546
Book Description
The annals and magazine of natural history, zoology, botany and geology
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 596
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 596
Book Description
Annals & Magazine of Natural History
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Botany
Languages : en
Pages : 566
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Botany
Languages : en
Pages : 566
Book Description
Livingstone
Author: Tim Jeal
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300191006
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 452
Book Description
DIV An extensively revised edition of Tim Jeal's classic biography published to mark the bicentenary of the great explorer /div
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300191006
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 452
Book Description
DIV An extensively revised edition of Tim Jeal's classic biography published to mark the bicentenary of the great explorer /div
Light on Darkness?
Author: T. Jack Thompson
Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
ISBN: 0802865240
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 305
Book Description
In its earliest days, photography was seen as depicting its subjects with such objectivity as to be inherently free of ideological bias. Today we are rightly more skeptical -- at least most of the time. When it comes to photography from the past, we tend to set some of our skepticism aside. But should we? In Light on Darkness? T. Jack Thompson, a leading historian of African Christianity, revisits the body of photography generated by British missionaries to sub-Saharan Africa in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries and demonstrates that much more is going on in these images than meets the eye. This volume offers a careful reassessment of missionary photographers, their photographs, and their African and European audiences. Several dozen fascinating photographs from the period are included.
Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
ISBN: 0802865240
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 305
Book Description
In its earliest days, photography was seen as depicting its subjects with such objectivity as to be inherently free of ideological bias. Today we are rightly more skeptical -- at least most of the time. When it comes to photography from the past, we tend to set some of our skepticism aside. But should we? In Light on Darkness? T. Jack Thompson, a leading historian of African Christianity, revisits the body of photography generated by British missionaries to sub-Saharan Africa in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries and demonstrates that much more is going on in these images than meets the eye. This volume offers a careful reassessment of missionary photographers, their photographs, and their African and European audiences. Several dozen fascinating photographs from the period are included.