The Routledge History of the Modern Maritime World provides a wide-ranging set of chapters, covering the sixteenth century to the present, which represent the main lines of current enquiry in maritime history....Loe edasi...
This edition brings together in three fully edited volumes the correspondence and associated papers of Sir Joseph Banks regarding European and especially British exploration of Africa from 17671820....Loe edasi...
This edition brings together in three fully edited volumes the correspondence and associated papers of Sir Joseph Banks regarding European and especially British exploration of Africa from 17671820....Loe edasi...
Vasco da Gama and His Successors (1970) looks at a range of Portuguese explorers of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, the most important being Vasco da Gama, whose first voyage to India ushered in a period of European conquest and empire, and e...Loe edasi...
The Russians in the Arctic (1958) examines Soviet attitudes towards the Arctic, its exploration and opening for exploitation, and the impact of Soviet rule and policies on the peoples native to the vast Siberian wilderness....Loe edasi...
J. David Knottnerus compares failed and successful polar expeditions in terms of participation in ritual practices and the psychological health of crews, finding that work practices, religious activities, games, parties are all extremely important i...Loe edasi...
This volume examines global environmental margins, how they are conceived and how perceptions have changed. It is essential reading for students and scholars interested in environmental history, geography, colonial studies and the environmental huma...Loe edasi...
This book brings together specialists from a range of historical fields to analyse the establishment of these commodity chains from the Americas to Europe as well as their cultural implications....Loe edasi...
Originally published in 1868, this book follows the life of Prince Henry, including chapters on the Siege of Tangier, the capture of Ceuta and the death of Prince Henry....Loe edasi...
This book, first published in 1875 and reissued in 1973, analyses the evidence from the works of Chinese historians that explorers from China had discovered a country they called Fusang western America, in all probability Mexico. The basis for thei...Loe edasi...
Originally published in 1985. This book traces the explorations and achievements of those who undertook missions of as extensions of their patrons eyes. The fascination and wide-ranging story is told with full scholarly documentation and many new i...Loe edasi...
The publication of key voyaging manuscripts has made significant contributions to scholarship. The publications translated and reproduced here reflect continuing academic demand for Pacific voyaging texts and context....Loe edasi...
When this book was first published in 1958, Arabia was even then one of the least known corners of the globe. The foreigner was strictly forbidden from entering, except those with the Imams personal consent, and then under close supervision. To Hans...Loe edasi...
These essays trace the history of the British search for the Northwest Passage the Arctic sea route connecting the Atlantic and Pacific oceans from the early modern era to the start of the nineteenth century....Loe edasi...
Focusing on nineteenth-century attempts to locate the northwest passage, the essays in this volume present this quest as a central element of British culture....Loe edasi...
