Arctic Circles and Imperial Knowledge
Title | Arctic Circles and Imperial Knowledge PDF eBook |
Author | Annaliese Jacobs Claydon |
Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
Pages | 220 |
Release | 2023-12-28 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1350292966 |
In 1845 an expedition led by Sir John Franklin vanished in the Canadian Arctic. The enduring obsession with the Franklin mystery, and in particular Inuit information about its fate, is partly due to the ways in which information was circulated in these imperial spaces. This book examines how the Franklins and other explorer families engaged in science, exploration and the exchange of information in the early to mid-19th century. It follows the Franklins from the Arctic to Van Diemen's Land, charting how they worked with intermediaries, imperial humanitarians and scientists, and shows how they used these experiences to claim a moral right to information. Arctic Circles and Imperial Knowledge shows how the indigenous peoples, translators, fur traders, whalers, convicts and sailors who explorer families relied upon for information were both indispensable and inconvenient to the Franklins. It reveals a deep entanglement of polar expedition with British imperialism, and shows how geographical knowledge intertwined with convict policy, humanitarianism, genocide and authority. In these imperial spaces families such as the Franklins negotiated their tenuous authority over knowledge to engage with the politics of truth and question the credibility and trustworthiness of those they sought to silence.
Imperial Knowledge
Title | Imperial Knowledge PDF eBook |
Author | Ewa M. Thompson |
Publisher | Praeger |
Pages | 256 |
Release | 2000-03-30 |
Genre | History |
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While Western literature has long reflected the techniques of power that privileged the colonial masters and their point of view, Russian fictional and nonfictional texts have escaped such scrutiny because Russia is not generally considered a colonial power. In arguing that Russia's long history of territorial expansion is a form of colonization, this book uses postcolonial theory to examine Russian literature and the power structures reflected in it. Among the authors discussed are Pushkin, Lermontov, Tolstoy, and Solzhenitsyn.
Carnal Knowledge and Imperial Power
Title | Carnal Knowledge and Imperial Power PDF eBook |
Author | Ann Laura Stoler |
Publisher | Univ of California Press |
Pages | 356 |
Release | 2002 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780520231115 |
Looking at the way cultural competencies and sensibilities entered into the construction of race in the colonial context, this text proposes that 'cultural racism' in fact predates its postmodern discovery.
Imagining Afghanistan
Title | Imagining Afghanistan PDF eBook |
Author | Nivi Manchanda |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 265 |
Release | 2020-07-09 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1108491235 |
An innovative exploration of how colonial interventions in Afghanistan have been made possible through representations of the country as 'backward'.
The Imperial Archive
Title | The Imperial Archive PDF eBook |
Author | Thomas Richards |
Publisher | Verso |
Pages | 196 |
Release | 1993-11-17 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780860916055 |
Argues that by meeting the vast administrative challenge of the British Empire - thorough maps and surveys, censuses and statistics - Victorian administrators developed a new symbiosis of knowledge and power. The book draws on works by Rudyard Kipling, H.G. Wells and Bram Stoker.
An Empire of Others
Title | An Empire of Others PDF eBook |
Author | Roland Cvetkovski |
Publisher | Central European University Press |
Pages | 415 |
Release | 2014-03-20 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 6155225761 |
Ethnographers helped to perceive, to understand and also to shape imperial as well as Soviet Russia?s cultural diversity. This volume focuses on the contexts in which ethnographic knowledge was created. Usually, ethnographic findings were superseded by imperial discourse: Defining regions, connecting them with ethnic origins and conceiving national entities necessarily implied the mapping of political and historical hierarchies. But beyond these spatial conceptualizations the essays particularly address the specific conditions in which ethnographic knowledge appeared and changed. On the one hand, they turn to the several fields into which ethnographic knowledge poured and materialized, i.e., history, historiography, anthropology or ideology. On the other, they equally consider the impact of the specific formats, i.e., pictures, maps, atlases, lectures, songs, museums, and exhibitions, on academic as well as non-academic manifestations.
Asian Empire and British Knowledge
Title | Asian Empire and British Knowledge PDF eBook |
Author | U. Hillemann |
Publisher | Springer |
Pages | 273 |
Release | 2009-10-15 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0230246753 |
British knowledge about China changed fundamentally in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Rather than treating these changes in British understanding as if Anglo-Sino relations were purely bilateral, this study looks at how British imperial networks in India and Southeast Asia were critical mediators in the British encounter of China.