Between the Arctic & the Adriatic: Polar Exploration, Science & Empire in the Habsburg Monarchy

Exploration was a defining aspect of how European societies encountered and established relations with the wider world. It set the stage for worldwide empires and laid the foundations for understandings of planetary existence. Exploration facilitated the exchange of commodities and ideas, the migrat...

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Main Author: Walsh, Stephen Anthony
Other Authors: Johnson, Alison Frank
Language:en_US
Published: Harvard University 2014
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Online Access:http://dissertations.umi.com/gsas.harvard.inactive:11800
http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:HUL.InstRepos:13070045