Zambesi : David Livingstone and expeditionary science in Africa
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Zambesi : David Livingstone and expeditionary science in Africa
(Tauris historical geography series, 1)
I.B. Tauris , Distributed in the United States and Canada exclusively by Palgrave Macmillan, 2010
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  Tokyo
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  Niigata
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  Fukui
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  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
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  Kyoto
  Osaka
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  Nara
  Wakayama
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  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
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  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
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Note
Includes bibliographical references (p. [225]-237) and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
"Zambesi" tells the story of David Livingstone's Zambesi Expedition. It exposes the rivalry among some of Victorian Britain's leading establishment figures and institutions - including the Foreign Office, the Royal Society, Royal Geographical Society, British Museum, Kew Gardens and the Admiralty - as abolitionists, scientists, and entrepreneurs sought to promote and protect their differing interests. Making use of letters, documents and materials neglected by previous writers and researchers, the author reveals how tensions arose from the very beginning between those in pursuit of knowledge for its own sake and the proponents of the civilizing missions who saw scientific knowledge as the utilitarian means to a social end. The result is an exciting story involving one of England's most feted Victorian heroes that offers important new insights in the practice and politics of expeditionary science in Victorian England. This is the definitive account of the expedition to date.
Table of Contents
List of Illustrations - ix
Acknowledgements - xi
1. People and Place - 1
2. 'Dr Livingstone I Presume?': Writing about the Zambesi Expedition - 23
3. 'No Longer Unaided and Alone': the Formation of the Zambesi Expedition - 45
4. Technologies of Expedition - 82
5. Fieldwork as Practice: Informants, Collection and Moving Knowledge - 110
6. The Expedition at Home: African Nture in the Scientific Metropolis - 143
7. Conclusion - 183
Appendix A - 193
Appendix B - 199
Glossary of Abbreviations - 203
Notes - 205
Bibliography - 225
Index - 239
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