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REINTERPRETING EXPLORATION

REINTERPRETING HISTORY

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The West in the World

EDITED BY

Dane Kennedy

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DANE KENNEDY

MICHAEL F. ROBINSON

HARRY LIEBERSOHN

PHILIP J. STERN

CLARE PETTITT

BERNY SBE

WILLARD SUNDERLAND

JANE SAMSON

STEPHEN J. ROCKEL

GORDON STEWART

STEPHANIE BARCZEWSKI

STEPHANIE BARCZEWSKI is a professor of history at Clemson University. She is the author of Antarctic Destinies: Scott, Shackleton and the Changing Face of Heroism (2007), Titanic: A Night to Remember (2004), and Myth and National Identity in Nineteenth-Century Britain: The Legends of King Arthur and Robin Hood (2000). Her current projects include a study of country houses and the British Empire for Manchester University Press and a study of heroic failure in British culture for Yale University Press.

DANE KENNEDY is the Elmer Louis Kayser Professor of History and International Affairs at George Washington University. His latest book is The Last Blank Spaces: Exploring Africa and Australia (2013). Prior publications include The Highly Civilized Man: Richard Burton and the Victorian World (2005) and The Magic Mountains: Hill Stations and the British Raj (1996).

HARRY LIEBERSOHN is a professor of history at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. His most recent books are The Return of the Gift: European History of a Global Idea (2011), The Travelers World: Europe to the Pacific (2006), and Aristocratic Encounters: European Travelers and North American Indians (1998). He has been a fellow of the Wissenschaftskolleg in Berlin (20067) and a member of the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton (19967).

CLARE PETTITT is a professor of English at Kings College London. She is a Research Director of a four year AHRC interdisciplinary project, Scrambled Messages: The Telegraphic Imaginary 18571900 and author of Dr. Livingstone, I Presume? Missionaries, Journalists, Explorers, and Empire (2007), Patent Inventions: Intellectual Property and the Victorian Novel (2004), and other publications on the history of the book.

MICHAEL F. ROBINSON is an associate professor of history at the University of Hartford. He is the author of The Coldest Crucible: Arctic Exploration and American Culture (2006), winner of the 2008 Forum of the History of Science in America book prize. He is working on a book, Lost White Tribe: Explorers, Scientists, and a Theory that Changed Africa for Oxford University Press. He writes a blog about science, history, and exploration called Time to Eat the Dogs.

STEPHEN J. ROCKEL is a professor of African history at the University of Toronto Scarborough. He is the author of Carriers of Culture: Labor on the Road in 19th Century East Africa (2006) and articles in the Journal of African History and The Canadian Journal of African Studies, among other publications.

JANE SAMSON is a professor of history at the University of Alberta. She is the author of Race and Empire (2004) and Imperial Benevolence: Making British Authority in the Pacific Islands (1998), as well as editor of three other books on British imperial history. She has also published numerous articles and book chapters on Pacific missionaries (both European and indigenous) and is currently working on the life of George Sarawia, the first Melanesian Anglican priest.

BERNY SBE is a lecturer in colonial and postcolonial studies in the Department of Modern Languages at the University of Birmingham. He is the author of