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An Empire of Air and Water: Uncolonizable Space in the British Imagination, 1750-1850
An Empire of Air and Water Uncolonizable Space in the British Imagination 17501850
Author: Siobhan Carroll
Planetary spaces such as the poles, the oceans, the atmosphere, and subterranean regions captured the British imperial imagination. Intangible, inhospitable, or inaccessible, these blank spaces?what Siobhan Carroll calls "atopias"?existed beyond the boundaries of known and inhabited places. The eighteenth century conceived of these geographic ou...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780812246780
ISBN-10: 0812246780
Publication Date: 2/17/2015
Pages: 320
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Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Book Type: Hardcover
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