New spaces of exploration : geographies of discovery in the twentieth century /
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 cult...
| Други автори: | Naylor, Simon., Ryan, James R. |
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| Формат: | Електронна книга |
| Език: | English |
| Публикувано: |
London ; New York :
I.B. Tauris,
2010.
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| Серия: |
Tauris historical geography series ;
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| Онлайн достъп: |
http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=318517 |
| Подобни документи: |
Print version::
New spaces of exploration. |
Съдържание:
- 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.