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UNINA9910453134803321 |
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Kennedy Dane Keith |
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The last blank spaces [[electronic resource] ] : exploring Africa and Australia / / Dane Kennedy |
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Cambridge, Mass., : Harvard University Press, 2013 |
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0-674-07501-3 |
0-674-07497-1 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (xi, 353 pages ) : illustrations, maps |
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Explorers - Great Britain - History |
British - Africa - History |
British - Australia - History |
Electronic books. |
Africa Discovery and exploration British |
Australia Discovery and exploration British |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Maps and Illustrations -- Chapter 1. Continents -- Chapter 2. Sciences -- Chapter 3. Professionals -- Chapter 4. Gateways -- Chapter 5. Logistics -- Chapter 6. Intermediaries -- Chapter 7. Encounters -- Chapter 8. Celebrities -- Epilogue -- Comparative Timeline of African and Australian Expeditions -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Acknowledgments -- Index |
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For a British Empire that stretched across much of the globe at the start of the nineteenth century, the interiors of Africa and Australia remained intriguing mysteries. The challenge of opening these continents to imperial influence fell to a proto-professional coterie of determined explorers. They sought knowledge, adventure, and fame, but often experienced confusion, fear, and failure. The Last Blank Spaces follows the arc of these explorations, from idea to practice, from intention to outcome, from myth to reality. Those who conducted the hundreds of expeditions that probed Africa and Australia in the nineteenth century adopted a mode of scientific investigation that had been developed by previous generations of seaborne explorers. They likened the two |
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continents to oceans, empty spaces that could be made truly knowable only by mapping, measuring, observing, and preserving. They found, however, that their survival and success depended less on this system of universal knowledge than it did on the local knowledge possessed by native peoples. While explorers sought to advance the interests of Britain and its emigrant communities, Dane Kennedy discovers a more complex outcome: expeditions that failed ignominiously, explorers whose loyalties proved ambivalent or divided, and, above all, local states and peoples who diverted expeditions to serve their own purposes. The collisions, and occasional convergences, between British and indigenous values, interests, and modes of knowing the world are brought to the fore in this fresh and engaging study. |
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UNISA996395190703316 |
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The theater of music: or, A choice collection of the newest and best songs sung at the court, and public theaters [[electronic resource] ] : The words composed by the most ingenious wits of the age, and set to music by the greatest masters in that science. With a thorow-bass to each song for the theorbo, or bass-viol. Also symphonies and retornels in 3 parts to several of them for the violins and flutes. The second book |
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London, : printed by J. P[layford]. for Henry Playford and R.C. and sold by Henry Playford near the Temple church, and John Carr at the Middle-Temple, 1685 |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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PlayfordHenry <b. 1657.> |
PurcellHenry <1659-1695.> |
BlowJohn <d. 1708.> |
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Songs, English - 17th century |
Songs with lute |
Songs with viola da gamba |
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Printer's name from Wing CD. |
Compiled by Henry Playford and edited by Henry Purcell and John Blow. |
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Imperfect: pp. 43-44 only. Originally 52 p. A fragment. Includes: "Philus, be gentler, I advise" and Musing on cares of humane fate". |
Reproduction of original at Harvard University, Houghton Library. |
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UNISALENTO991001796559707536 |
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Conservare il Novecento : carte e libri in vetrina : Convegno, Ferrara, Salone internazionale dell'arte del restauro e della conservazione dei beni culturali e ambientali 1 aprile 2011 : atti / a cura di Giuliana Zagra |
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Roma : Associazione italiana biblioteche, 2012 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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Altri autori (Enti) |
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Associazione italiana biblioteche |
Istituto per i beni artistici, culturali, naturali della Regione Emilia-Romagna |
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Soggetti |
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Esposizioni bibliografiche - Allestimento |
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Note generali |
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In testa al front.: Associazione italiana biblioteche; Associazione nazionale archivistica italiana; Istituto centrale per il restauro e la conservazione del patrimonio archivistico e librario; Regione Emilia-Romagna, Istituto per i beni artistici, culturali e naturali, Soprintendenza per i beni librari e documentari |
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