Class and Colonialism in Antarctic Exploration, 1750-1920
Between 1750 and 1920 over 15,000 people visited Antarctica. Yet, despite such a large number the historiography has ignored all but a handful of celebrated explorers. Maddison aims to redress this balance and presents a study of Antarctic exploration from below. Sailors, sealers, whalers, cooks, me...
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ftunivwollongong:oai:ro.uow.edu.au:lhapapers-2483 2023-05-15T13:38:58+02:00 Class and Colonialism in Antarctic Exploration, 1750-1920 Maddison, Ben 2014-01-01T08:00:00Z https://ro.uow.edu.au/lhapapers/1478 unknown Research Online https://ro.uow.edu.au/lhapapers/1478 Faculty of Law, Humanities and the Arts - Papers 1750 1920 exploration class colonialism antarctic Arts and Humanities Law book 2014 ftunivwollongong 2020-02-25T12:24:13Z Between 1750 and 1920 over 15,000 people visited Antarctica. Yet, despite such a large number the historiography has ignored all but a handful of celebrated explorers. Maddison aims to redress this balance and presents a study of Antarctic exploration from below. Sailors, sealers, whalers, cooks, mechanics, engineers, stokers and radio operators were all necessary in bringing the upper-class 'hero explorers' to the continent and supporting their expeditions. Likewise, resources obtained from local populations in southern Africa, Australasia, the Pacific and South America were vital to their success. In telling the story of these forgotten facilitators, Maddison argues that Antarctic exploration can be seen as an offshoot of European colonialism. Book Antarc* Antarctic Antarctica University of Wollongong, Australia: Research Online Antarctic Pacific |
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Between 1750 and 1920 over 15,000 people visited Antarctica. Yet, despite such a large number the historiography has ignored all but a handful of celebrated explorers. Maddison aims to redress this balance and presents a study of Antarctic exploration from below. Sailors, sealers, whalers, cooks, mechanics, engineers, stokers and radio operators were all necessary in bringing the upper-class 'hero explorers' to the continent and supporting their expeditions. Likewise, resources obtained from local populations in southern Africa, Australasia, the Pacific and South America were vital to their success. In telling the story of these forgotten facilitators, Maddison argues that Antarctic exploration can be seen as an offshoot of European colonialism. |
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