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• Title: Raymond John Howgego, Ed. Encyclopedia of Exploration to 1800 (Book Review)
• Author : Utopian Studies
• Release Date : January 22, 2003
• Genre: Religion & Spirituality,Books,
• Pages : * pages
• Size : 180 KB

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Sydney, NSW: Hordern House Rare Books, 2003. xv + 1,168 pp. $AUS295.00. (Can be ordered through www.hordern.com) UNTIL THE MID-SEVENTEENTH CENTURY and for much of humanity's long history, Europeans had remained ignorant of most of the world's surface and its peoples. Beyond their immediate neighbours lay a vague terra incognita, fertile ground for myth and fantasy. With their immediate neighbours Europeans existed in uneasy and suspicious confrontation; by and large, in awe of what was conceived to be their superior sophistication. From them they took, amongst much else, their religious faith and ultimately the system of numbering on which modern science came to rely. In return, they offered little beyond some punishing but largely ephemeral and generally ineffectual exercises in imperial expansion. Within a century and a half, all that had changed. Primarily European-led 'exploration' was discovering, observing, classifying, categorising, and synthesising the new knowledge of the flora, fauna, geography, geology, mineralogy, and even the cultures and anthropology of the whole globe. Along with this domination of knowledge and perception went commercial penetration, political annexation, settlement, and exploitation: what Europeans could then call, without feeling totally fraudulent, "progress". The Encyclopedia of Exploration to 1800 not only straddles this watershed but reaches far back into both non-European and European pasts in coverage of its central themes. It is a major achievement in terms of its scale and ambition, its scholarship and the presentation of its findings; all the more remarkable, in this age of scholarly collaborations, in that it is the work of a single author.

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