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New spaces of exploration : geographies of discovery in the twentieth century / edited by Simon Naylor and James R. Ryan.
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English
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London ; New York : I.B. Tauris, 2010.
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x, 309 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
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Firestone Library - Stacks
G80 .N49 2010
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Discoveries in geography
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History
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20th century
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Naylor, Simon
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Ryan, James R.
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Tauris historical geography series ; 2.
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Summary note
This title demonstrates how new technologies and changing geopolitical configurations have ensured that exploration has remained a key feature in our rapidly globalizing world. It shows the increasing diversity of modern exploration and reveals the continuing political, military, industrial and cultural motivations at play.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 293-304) and index.
Contents
Exploration and the twentieth century / James R. Ryan and Simon Naylor
'Deeds not words'? Life writing and early twentieth-century British polar exploration / Elizabeth Baigent
Configuring the field: photography in early twentieth-century Antarctic exploration / Kathryn Yusoff --Explorations in the Libyan Desert: William J. Harding King / Nicola J. Thomas and Jude Hill
Fieldwork and the geographical career: T. Griffith Taylor and the exploration of Australia / Simon Naylor
Glaciology, the Arctic, and the US military, 1945-58 / Fae l. Korsmo
Assault on the unknown: geopolitics, Antarctic science and the International geophysical Year (1957-8) / Klaus Dodds
'Britnik': how America made and destroyed Britain's first satellite / Matthew Godwin
High empire: rocketry and the popular geopolitics of space exploration, 1944-62 / Fraser MacDonald
Walking in your footsteps: 'footsteps of the explorers' expeditions and the contest for Australian desert space / Felix Driver.
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ISBN
9781848850170
1848850174
9781848850163 ((hbk.))
1848850166 ((hbk.))
OCLC
424559895
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