A General Collection of the Best and Most Interesting Voyages and Travels
Author | : John Pinkerton |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 1038 |
Release | : 1812 |
Genre | : Voyages and travels |
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Author | : John Pinkerton |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 1038 |
Release | : 1812 |
Genre | : Voyages and travels |
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Author | : William Fordyce Mavor |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 318 |
Release | : 1803 |
Genre | : Discoveries in geography |
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Author | : Sir Richard Phillips |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 798 |
Release | : 1819 |
Genre | : Voyages and travels |
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Author | : Paul Longley Arthur |
Publisher | : Anthem Press |
Total Pages | : 217 |
Release | : 2011-10 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9781843313182 |
'Virtual Voyages' is a fascinating account of the European discovery of the elusive 'great south land' told through the literature of 'imaginary voyages'. Written at the height of the era of European maritime exploration, these bizarre and captivating tales, with their wildly imaginative visions of antipodean inversion and strangeness, reveal a hidden history of attitudes to colonization. By exposing the relationship between myth and reality in the antipodes, this book casts new light on the power of fiction to influence history. In the post-colonial studies field, books about travel writing and empire have tended to focus on the high period of nineteenth-century imperialism and on the colonial settings of Africa and India. This book offers a fresh perspective by focussing on the eighteenth century, and referring to the geographical region of Australia and the Pacific, which has had far less attention. The book also breaks new ground by being the first to approach the genre of the imaginary voyage from a post-colonial perspective. In addition to the new insights into European colonialism that it offers, the book illustrates many broader themes in eighteenth-century history and thought. These include connections between the rise of science and modern imperialism, the development of narrative history and fiction and the influence of romanticism, the evolution of the early novel in Britain and France, and the role of mythology in the development of national identity.
Author | : Marianne Klemun |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 301 |
Release | : 2016-10-18 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 1137581069 |
This collection focuses on different expeditions and their role in the process of knowledge acquisition from the eighteenth century onwards. It investigates various forms of scientific practice conducted during, after and before expeditions, and it places this discussion into the scientific context of experiments. In treating expeditions as experiments in a heuristic sense, we also propose that the expedition is a variation on the laboratory in which different practices can be conducted and where the transformation of uncertain into certain knowledge is tested. The experimental positioning of the expedition brings together an ensemble of techniques, strategies, material agents and social actors, and illuminates the steps leading from observation to facts and documentation. The chapters show the variety of scientific interests that motivated expeditions with their focus on natural history, geology, ichthyology, botany, zoology, helminthology, speleology, physical anthropology, oceanography, meteorology and magnetism.
Author | : John T. Scott |
Publisher | : Taylor & Francis |
Total Pages | : 544 |
Release | : 2006 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780415350877 |
Bringing together critical assessments of the broad range of Rousseau's thought, with a particular emphasis on his political theory, this systematic collection is an essential resource for both student and scholar.
Author | : Jean-Jacques Rousseau |
Publisher | : Broadview Press |
Total Pages | : 394 |
Release | : 2018-02-15 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 1460406427 |
This classroom edition includes On the Social Contract, the Discourse on the Sciences and the Arts, the Discourse on the Origins of Inequality, and the Preface to Narcissus. Each text has been newly translated and includes a full complement of explanatory notes. The editors’ introduction offers students diverse points of entry into some of the distinctive possibilities and challenges of each of these fundamental texts, as well as an introduction to Rousseau’s life and historical situation. The volume also includes annotated appendices that help students to explore the origins and influences of Rousseau’s work, including excerpts from Hobbes, Pascal, Descartes, Mandeville, Diderot, Voltaire, Madame de Staël, Benjamin Constant, Joseph de Maistre, Kant, Hegel, and Engels.
Author | : George Anson Baron Anson |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 424 |
Release | : 1911 |
Genre | : Voyages around the world |
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Author | : Jean-Jacques Rousseau |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 518 |
Release | : 2021-08-25 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 1108578594 |
A comprehensive and authoritative anthology of Rousseau's important early political writings in faithful English translations. This volume includes the Discourse on the Sciences and Arts and the Discourse on the Origin and the Foundations of Inequality among Men - the so-called First and Second Discourses - together with Rousseau's extensive Replies to critics of these Discourses; the Essay on the Origin of Languages; the Letter to Voltaire on Providence; as well as several minor but illuminating writings - the Discourse on Heroic Virtue and the essay Idea of the Method in the Composition of a Book. In these as well as in his later writings, Rousseau probes the very premises of modern thought. His influence was wide-reaching from the very first, and it has continued to grow since his death. The American and the French Revolutions were profoundly affected by his thought, as were Romanticism and Idealism. This new edition features up-to-date translations, an expanded introduction, and an extensive editorial apparatus designed to assist students at every level access these seminal texts.