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The Journal of Midshipman Chaplin
The First Kamchatka Expedition is a classic among the voyages of discovery, being famous for the discovery of the Bering Strait between Asia and North America. Chaplin's journal holds a special place among the documents of the expedition. It is the only official document that preserves its history in detail, day by day, from the author's departure from St. Petersburg on 24 January 1725 until his return to the Russian capital on 1 March 1730. The publication includes introductory articles and commentary by leading specialists, a glossary, indexes, and maps.
Before Boas
"An extensive study of the emergence of ethnology and ethnography, and how theories in Europe and Russia during the eighteenth century experienced a paradigm shift with the work of Franz Boas starting in 1886"--
Exploring and Mapping Alaska
Russia first encountered Alaska in 1741 as part of the most ambitious and expensive expedition of the entire 18th century. During the next 126 years the struggle to develop and refine geographic knowledge of the vast region comprising northeastern Asia, the North Pacific, and Alaska met with many obstacles, including inclement weather, the chain of supply over great distances, the need to train expert navigators and cartographers, and false leads due to spurious voyage accounts. For much of this era, critical geographic knowledge was kept as a state secret in Russia and not shared, even with the very navigators and cartographers who were developing much needed maps and navigational aids. Des...
Report of the Proceedings
Includes Report of the proceedings of the 1st supplementary conference held in 1919
Victor Serge
The first biography to give due weight to the commitment and optimism of this great political thinker.
Geografie del tempo
Questo libro ripercorre i testi di viaggiatori provenienti dal Vecchio Mondo che sono entrati in contatto con i popoli nativi del Nord America nel Settecento, e che hanno tentato di comprenderne e scriverne la storia. Al centro dell’attenzione vi sono le conseguenze che questi incontri hanno avuto sull’idea di tempo nella mente europea. La curiosità proto-etnografica di amministratori coloniali, esploratori, commercianti, militari, naturalisti di origine francese e britannica, la loro osservazione della varietà sociale e culturale dei popoli nativi complica l’uso dell’uomo americano come esempio di “selvaggio” – nobile o ignobile – tipico delle teorizzazioni di progresso e sviluppo settecentesche. Nel sapere storico prodotto da questi testimoni assumono un ruolo centrale problemi legati alla comunicazione, alla traduzione, all’esistenza o meno di fonti scritte, che rivelano affascinanti tensioni tra un eurocentrismo epistemologico di fondo e tentativi di relativizzazione culturale.
Victor Serge
Revolutionary novelist, historian, anarchist, Bolshevik and dissident-Victor Serge is one of the most compelling figures to have emerged from the history of the Soviet Union. A dedicated activist who joined the Bolsheviks in 1919 and fought in the siege of Petrograd, only to be later consigned to poverty and persecution for rejecting both capitalism and Stalinism, he was a keen observer of his times. Carefully wrought and meticulously researched, Susan Weissman's Victor Serge is the definitive biography of an extraordinary man.
Arctic Bibliography
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