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11 mar 2021 · Focusing on the practice of disguise and deception in exploration history, Charles Withers’s article examines the ways nineteenth-century explorers represented themselves, constructing their own identities.
21 wrz 2022 · The pace of European exploration was sustained by a context of geopolitical and economic competition in the Atlantic, but from 1479 the mapping of new routes had been ordered towards specific geographic directions.
16 mar 2019 · Writing about movements from the non-Western world into the West is a fascinating new narrative in the history of exploration and discoveries. The three engaging and well-researched articles in this issue of Terrae Incognitae also alter existing narratives.
7 maj 2020 · The Age of Exploration, also referred to as the Age of Discovery, was a period during which European societies began to look outwards. The rebirth of knowledge, and humankind’s interest in its own place in the world, marked by the Renaissance, set the stage for...
3 lis 2014 · Abstract. From unpromising starting points in Atlantic-side Europe, during a period of plague and cold, in a region that was poor and, by comparison with civilizations of maritime Asia, technically backward, explorers worked out the wind-systems of the world, and opened routes of commerce, conquest, colonization, contagion, and cultural and ...
‘The age of exploration ’ considers why textbooks and teachers privilege late-medieval and early-modern Europe when designating “the age of exploration” and not the earlier Greek, Roman, Arab, Norse, Polynesian, or Mongol achievements in terms of exploration and cultural reach.
J. K. Wright. THE central theme of the history of exploration is the record of routes traversed in the opening to knowledge of unknown regions. To this theme much must be added if the story is to acquire any real meaning.
