New spaces of exploration : geographies of discovery in the twentieth century
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New spaces of exploration : geographies of discovery in the twentieth century
(Tauris historical geography series, 2)
I. B. Tauris, 2010
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  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
Note
Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
For many the dawn of the twentieth century ushered in an era where the world map had few if any blank spaces left to discover. The age of exploration was supposedly dead. "New Spaces of Exploration" challenges this assumption. Focusing specifically on exploration in the twentieth century, the authors demonstrate how new technologies and changing geopolitical configurations have ensured that exploration has remained a key feature of our rapidly globalizing world. Ranging widely in their geographical focus - from the Europe and Asia to Australia, and from the polar regions to outer space - they demonstrate the increasing diversity of modern exploration and reveal the continuing political, military, industrial and cultural motivations at play. The result is a major contribution to our understanding of the significance of exploration in the twentieth century. The contributors include: E. Baigent, C. Collis, K. Dodds, F. Driver, M. Godwin, J. Hill, F. Korsmo, F. MacDonald, S. Naylor, J. Ryan, N. Thomas, and K. Yusoff.
Table of Contents
1. Exploration and the Twentieth Century
James R Ryan and Simon Naylor
2. 'Deeds not Words'? Life writing and early twentieth-century British polar exploration
Elizabeth Baigent
3. Configuring the Field: photography in early twentieth century Antarctic exploration
Kathryn Yusoff
4. Explorations in the Libyan Desert: William J. Harding King
Nicola J. Thomas and Jude Hill
5. Fieldwork and the Geographical Career: T. Griffith Taylor and the exploration of Australia
Simon Naylor
6. Glaciology, the Arctic, and the US military
Fae L Korsmo
7. Assault on the unknown: Geopolitics, Antarctic science and the International Geophysical
Year
Klaus Dodds
8. 'Britnik': How America made and destroyed Britain's first satellite
Matthew Godwin
9. High Empire: rocketry and the popular geopolitics of space exploration
Fraser MacDonald
10. Walking in your footsteps: 'footsteps of the explorers' expeditions and the contest for
Australian desert space
Christy Collis
11. Afterword
Felix Driver
Notes
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Index
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