Title Expeditions in the Long Nineteenth Century Discovering, Surveying, and Ordering

Published Oxford : Taylor & Francis Group, 2024

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Description 1 online resource (291 p.) Series Routledge Studies in Modern History Series Routledge Studies in Modern History Series Contents Intro -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Figures -- Introduction: A journey into the long nineteenth century -- Discovering -- Surveying -- Ordering -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Part 1: Discovering -- 1. Estonians traveling around the globe: The impact of family networks on the circumnavigation ventures of Krusenstern and Kotzebue -- 1.1 Russian circumnavigations in the early 19th century -- 1.2 Baltic-German family connections -- 1.3 August von Kotzebue: Editor and networker -- 1.4 Travel diaries: Writing on board the Nadezhda 1.5 Visions Thwarted by the war: Forster, Mulovskiy, and Krusenstern -- 1.6 Reports of the Rurik expedition -- 1.7 Concluding remarks -- Notes -- Bibliography -- 2. Scholarship and unknown waters: Humboldt the scholar, Shevchenko the painter, and Captain Butakov on the Aral Sea, 1848-49 -- 2.1 Routes to Central Asia -- 2.2 The search for the Aral Sea -- 2.3 The travelers -- 2.4 The discoveries -- 2.5 Journey's end -- 2.6 Findings -- Notes -- Bibliography -- 3. Forms of imperial knowledge: The Orenburg steppes as a cultural contact zone around 1830 3.1 The cultural economy of abundance -- Alexander von Humboldt in Orenburg -- 3.2 Crisis and catastrophe -- Sergei Aksakov traveling the Orenburg steppes -- 3.3 The Antichrist in Orenburg -- Pushkin's Pugachev project -- 3.4 Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- 4. The Menage expedition to the Philippines: An unexpected prelude to colonial governance -- 4.1 Introduction -- 4.2 A brief historiographical overview -- 4.3 The reason for the expedition -- 4.4 The Menage expedition and afterward -- 4.5 The return of Bourns to the Philippines -- 4.6 The return of Worcester to the Philippines -- Notes 6.2 Johannes Justus Rein -- An explorer on behalf of the Prussian government -- 6.3 Spaces and practices of knowledge production on Rein's expedition -- 6.4 Traveling -- 6.5 Collecting -- 6.6 Documenting -- 6.7 Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- 7. The organizational and financial aspects of the Russian Academy of Science's expeditions in the 18th and 19th centuries -- 7.1 Introduction -- 7.2 Documentation in the 18th century -- 7.3 Documentation in the 19th century -- 7.4 Expeditionary document flow of the Academy of Sciences Summary This book examines the processes of scientific, cultural, political, technical and violent appropriation during the 19th century Notes Description based upon print version of record Bibliography Bibliography -- Part 2: Surveying -- 5. Hiking boots and peasant shirts: National science, self-fashioning, and the Ukrainophile tradition of scholarly travel -- 5.1 Wandering the countryside -- 5.2 Finding a foreign homeland -- 5.3 Discovering Galicia - in whose clothes? -- 5.4 Manufacturing closeness, displaying difference -- 5.5 ""The things you cannot learn from books -- 5.6 Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- 6. Consistency or transformation?: Geographical research practices on J. J. Rein's expedition to Japan -- 6.1 Introduction Notes Academic documentation during the expedition to the Caucasus in 1829 Subject Ocean and civilization -- History -- 19th century Art, Modern -- 19th century -- History. Science -- History -- 19th century Genre/Form Electronic books Form Electronic book Author Hussinger, Melanie Raupach, Hajo ISBN 9781040011034 1040011039

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