Author: Thomas H. B. Symons
Publisher: University of Ottawa Press
Published: 1999-01-01
Total Pages: 346
ISBN-13: 1772824348
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The Meta Incognita Project was initiated to cast new light on the Arctic voyages of Martin Frobisher and their significance for the histories of North America and Britain. Although the Elizabethan venture failed to discover a northwest passage to mines and precious metals, and to establish a colony in the future Canadian Arctic, it left valuable legacies.
Author: Canadian Museum of Civilization
Publisher: Hull, Quebec : Published by the Canadian Museum of Civilization with the authorization of the Meta Incognita Project Steering Committee
Published: 1999
Total Pages: 364
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The Meta Incognita Project casts new light on the Arctic voyages of Martin Frobisher. Although the Elizabethan venture failed to discover a northwest passage or to establish a colony in the Arctic, it left valuable legacies. Research by a team of scholars addresses such subjects as organizational methods, financial speculation, cartography, ship construction, navigational science, metallurgy, health care intercultural relations, even espionage.
Author: Meta Incognita Project Steering Committee
Publisher: Hull, Quebec : Canadian Museum of Civilization
Published: 1993
Total Pages: 236
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The Meta Incognita Project investigates the Arctic expeditions of Martin Frobisher in 1576-1578, which included the first English attempt to establish a colony in Canada, and their effects on the Inuit he encountered in southern Baffin Island, as well as attempting to ensure the longterm protection of the associated historic sites.
Author: D. A. Hodgson
Publisher: Geological Survey
Published: 2005
Total Pages: 84
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Canadian Museum of Civilization
Publisher: Hull, Quebec : Published by the Canadian Museum of Civilization with the authorization of the Meta Incognita Project Steering Committee
Published: 1999
Total Pages: 366
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The Meta Incognita Project casts new light on the Arctic voyages of Martin Frobisher. Although the Elizabethan venture failed to discover a northwest passage or to establish a colony in the Arctic, it left valuable legacies. Research by a team of scholars addresses such subjects as organizational methods, financial speculation, cartography, ship construction, navigational science, metallurgy, health care intercultural relations, even espionage.
Author: Alden T. Vaughan
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2006-12-11
Total Pages: 372
ISBN-13: 9780521865944
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Author: Alan Day
Publisher: Scarecrow Press
Published: 2006-01-03
Total Pages: 475
ISBN-13: 081086519X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The Northwest Passage was repeatedly sought for over four centuries. From the first attempt in the late 15th century to Roald Amundsen's famous voyage of 1903-1906 where the feat was first accomplished to expeditions in the late 1940s by the Mounties to discover an even more northern route, author Alan Day covers all aspects of the ongoing quest that excited the imagination of the world. This compendium of explorers, navigators, and expeditions tackles this broad topic with a convenient, but extensive cross-referenced dictionary. A chronology traces the long succession of treks to find the passage, the introduction helps explain what motivated them, and the bibliography provides a means for those wishing to discover more information on this exciting subject.
Author: Philip J. Stern
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 2023-05-16
Total Pages: 409
ISBN-13: 0674293487
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →“Brilliant, ambitious, and often surprising. A remarkable contribution to the current global debate about Empire and a small masterpiece of research and conceptual reimagining.” —William Dalrymple, author of The Anarchy: The East India Company, Corporate Violence, and the Pillage of an Empire An award-winning historian places the corporation—more than the Crown—at the heart of British colonialism, arguing that companies built and governed global empire, raising questions about public and private power that were just as troubling four hundred years ago as they are today. Across four centuries, from Ireland to India, the Americas to Africa and Australia, British colonialism was above all the business of corporations. Corporations conceived, promoted, financed, and governed overseas expansion, making claims over territory and peoples while ensuring that British and colonial society were invested, quite literally, in their ventures. Colonial companies were also relentlessly controversial, frequently in debt, and prone to failure. The corporation was well-suited to overseas expansion not because it was an inevitable juggernaut but because, like empire itself, it was an elusive contradiction: public and private; person and society; subordinate and autonomous; centralized and diffuse; immortal and precarious; national and cosmopolitan—a legal fiction with very real power. Breaking from traditional histories in which corporations take a supporting role by doing the dirty work of sovereign states in exchange for commercial monopolies, Philip Stern argues that corporations took the lead in global expansion and administration. Whether in sixteenth-century Ireland and North America or the Falklands in the early 1980s, corporations were key players. And, as Empire, Incorporated makes clear, venture colonialism did not cease with the end of empire. Its legacies continue to raise questions about corporate power that are just as relevant today as they were 400 years ago. Challenging conventional wisdom about where power is held on a global scale, Stern complicates the supposedly firm distinction between private enterprise and the state, offering a new history of the British Empire, as well as a new history of the corporation.
Author: Adriana Craciun
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2016-03-10
Total Pages: 327
ISBN-13: 1107125545
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This fascinating study examines how Victorian fixation on disastrous Northwest Passage expeditions has conditioned our understanding of the Arctic and Polar exploration.