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  • New Spaces of Exploration

    Geographies of Discovery in the Twentieth Century

    Modifié par Simon Naylor, James R. Ryan ...
    Collections series Tauris Historical Geographical Series
    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 ... En savoir plus

    $38.99 CAD

  • Picturing Empire

    Photography and the Visualization of the British Empire

    par James R. Ryan ...
    Collections series Picturing History
    While the cultural history of the British Empire has recently attracted much interest, relatively little attention has been paid to the significance of its visualization. Yet the Empire was pictured across a wide spectrum of imagery, from paintings to postcards, maps to documents. Focusing on the role of photography, this wide-ranging book explores the aesthetics of empire.The development of ... En savoir plus

    $36.99 CAD

  • Photography and Exploration

    par James R. Ryan ...
    Collections series Exposures
    When Ferdinand Magellan set out to circumnavigate the globe in 1519, he wasn’t able to take a digital camera or a smartphone with him. Yet, as the eagerly awaited images from the Mars Rover prove, modern exploration is inconceivable without photography. Since its invention in 1839, photography was integral to exploration and used by explorers, sponsors and publishers alike, and in the early ... En savoir plus

    $29.99 CAD

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  • Colonialist Photography

    Imag(in)ing Race and Place

    Modifié par Eleanor M. Hight, Gary D. Sampson ...
    Colonialist Photography is an absorbing collection of essays and photographs exploring the relationship between photography and European and American colonialism. The book is packed with well over a hundred captivating images, ranging from the first experiments with photography as a documentary medium up to the decolonization of many regions after World War II.Reinforcing a broad range of Western ... En savoir plus

    $92.99 CAD

  • Photography, Anthropology and History

    Expanding the Frame

    par Elizabeth Edwards ...
    Photography, Anthropology and History examines the complex historical relationship between photography and anthropology, and in particular the strong emergence of the contemporary relevance of historical images. Thematically organized, and focusing on the visual practices developed within anthropology as a discipline, this book brings together a range of contemporary and methodologically ... En savoir plus

    $116.99 CAD

  • Great Expeditions

    50 Journeys that changed our world

    Foreword by Levison Wood, bestselling author of Walking the NileA comprehensive, fascinating and inspiring gallery of the great adventures that changed our world.Throughout history there have been brave men and women who dared to go where few had gone before. They broke new ground by drawing on incredible reserves of courage, fortitude and intelligence in the face of terrible adversity. Their ... En savoir plus

    $24.99 CAD

  • Photography, Natural History and the Nineteenth-Century Museum

    Exchanging Views of Empire

    par Kathleen Davidson ...
    Collections series Science and the Arts since 1750
    The Victorian era heralded an age of transformation in which momentous changes in the field of natural history coincided with the rise of new visual technologies. Concurrently, different parts of the British Empire began to more actively claim their right to being acknowledged as indispensable contributors to knowledge and the progress of empire. This book addresses the complex relationship ... En savoir plus

    $89.99 CAD

  • Every Monument Will Fall

    A Story of Remembering and Forgetting

    par Dan Hicks ...
    ‘An extraordinary intervention. If you want to understand the stakes and the limitations of contemporary conflict over culture and colonial history this bold, provocative book is an indispensable resource’ Paul Gilroy, founding Director of the Sarah Parker Remond Centre for the Study of Race and Racism at UCL‘Hicks’ must-read book describes how it was possible for a human skull to be made into a ... En savoir plus

    Prix courant $17.99 CAD Maintenant $12.99 CAD

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  • Titanic: History in an Hour

    par Sinead Fitzgibbon ...
    Love history? Know your stuff with History in an Hour.The sinking of the Titanic 100 years ago in 1912, and the subsequent deaths of over 1,500 passengers, sent shock waves around the world. Never before or since has a maritime disaster in a time of peace had such an impact.TITANIC: HISTORY IN AN HOUR is an entertaining and well researched account of the events leading up to the sinking of this ... En savoir plus

    $2.99 CAD ou Gratuit avec Kobo Plus

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  • The Whole Picture

    The colonial story of the art in our museums & why we need to talk about it

    par Alice Procter ...
    "Probing, jargon-free and written with the pace of a detective story... [Procter] dissects western museum culture with such forensic fury that it might be difficult for the reader ever to view those institutions in the same way again. " Financial Times'A smart, accessible and brilliantly structured work that encourages readers to go beyond the grand architecture of cultural institutions and see ... En savoir plus

    $3.99 CAD

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  • The Cambridge Introduction to Travel Writing

    par Tim Youngs ...
    Critics have long struggled to find a suitable category for travelogues. From its ancient origins to the present day, the travel narrative has borrowed elements from various genres - from epic poetry to literary reportage - in order to evoke distant cultures and exotic locales, and sometimes those closer to hand. Tim Youngs argues in this lucid and detailed Introduction that travel writing ... En savoir plus

    $31.99 CAD

  • The Aboriginal Story of Burke and Wills

    Forgotten Narratives

    Modifié par Ian Clark, Fred Cahir ...
    The Aboriginal Story of Burke and Wills is the first major study of Aboriginal associations with the Burke and Wills expedition of 1860–61. A main theme of the book is the contrast between the skills, perceptions and knowledge of the Indigenous people and those of the new arrivals, and the extent to which this affected the outcome of the expedition. The book offers a reinterpretation of the ... En savoir plus

    $65.99 CAD