Zambesi

David Livingstone and Expeditionary Science in Africa

Lawrence Dritsas (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

256 Seiten

2020
Bloomsbury Academic (Verlag)
978-1-350-17078-0 (ISBN)

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"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.

Lawrence Dritsas is a Fellow with the School of Social and Political Science at the University of Edinburgh. He has a long-standing interest in the history of scientific expeditions and especially in the exploration of Africa.

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

Erscheinungsdatum	24.07.2020
Reihe/Serie	Tauris Historical Geographical Series
Zusatzinfo	15 bw illus
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Gewicht	363 g
Themenwelt	Reisen ► Reiseberichte
ISBN-10	1-350-17078-X / 135017078X
ISBN-13	978-1-350-17078-0 / 9781350170780
Zustand	Neuware