Expeditions in the Long Nineteenth Century

ISBN-13: 9781032479378 / Twarda / 2024 / 288 str.

Opis

This book examines the processes of scientific, cultural, political, technical and violent appropriation during the 19^th century.

Spis treści

PART 1: DISCOVERING

1. Estonians Travelling Around the Globe: The Impact of Family Networks on the Circumnavigation Ventures of Krusenstern and Kotzebue
Anna Ananieva & Alexander Ananyev
2. Scholarship and Unknown Waters. Humboldt the Scholar, Shevchenko the Painter, and Captain Butakov on the Aral Sea, 1848–49
Jörn Happel
3. Forms of Imperial Knowledge – The Orenburg Steppes as a Cultural Contact Zone around 1830
Clemens Günther
4. The Menage Expedition to the Philippines: An Unexpected Prelude to Colonial Governance
Mark Rice

PART 2: SURVEYING

5. Hiking Boots and Peasant Shirts: National Science, Self-Fashioning, and the Ukrainophile Tradition of Scholarly Travel
Fabian Baumann & Martin Rohde
6. Consistency or Transformation? Geographical Research Practices on J. J. Rein’s Expedition to Japan
Tobit Nauheim
7. The Organizational and Financial Aspects of the Russian Academy of Science’s Expeditions in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries
Tatiana Yurievna Feklova

PART 3: ORDERING

8. “Hapa Wito!” The Narrative Longevity and Instrumentalization of German Wituland: From Explorers and Soldiers of Fortune to Visionaries and Fighters for German Weltmachtstreben
Moritz Pöllath
9. Finding the Stone Age. How Prehistory became a Place to Visit in New Guinea
Mira Shah
10. Bringing the World into View: Explorations and the Illustrated Lecture Circuit in Early Twentieth-Century Antwerp and Brussels
Margo Buelens-Terryn & Kristof Loockx

O autorze

Jörn Happel has been Professor of Eastern European History at Helmut Schmidt University in Hamburg since 2020. He received his PhD from the University of Basel in 2009 with a thesis on the anti-Russian colonial uprising in Central Asia in 1916. In 2016, he received his Habilitation in Basel with a study on German-Soviet relations in the 20th century. He is currently researching the history of the Aral Sea in the 19th century.

 

Melanie Hussinger M.A. has been a research assistant at the chair of Eastern European History at Helmut Schmidt University in Hamburg since 2021. Her research focuses on memory culture and politics in Eastern Europe, practices of remembering and commemoration in post-socialist states, Stalinism and its reappraisal. She is the author of Russia's Last Address. Social commemoration of the victims of Stalinism (2020).

 

Hajo Raupach M. A. works as a research assistant at the chair for Eastern European and East-Central European History at the Helmut-Schmidt-University Hamburg (Germany). He is writing his PhD thesis about economic experiments in the late Soviet Union. Other research interests include the cultural history of apocalypse and socialist architecture.