Terrae Incognitae-The Journal of the Society for the History of Discoveries最新文献

{"title":"Cold: Three Winters at the South Pole <b>Cold: Three Winters at the South Pole</b> . By WAYNE L. WHITE. Lincoln: Potomac Books, an Imprint of the University of Nebraska Press, 2022. 256 pp., 28 color photographs, and 1 chart, $29.95 (HB). ISBN: 978-1-64012-552-0.","authors":"Ryan Barker","doi":"10.1080/00822884.2023.2277594","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00822884.2023.2277594","url":null,"abstract":"\"Cold: Three Winters at the South Pole.\" Terrae Incognitae, ahead-of-print(ahead-of-print), pp. 1–2","PeriodicalId":40672,"journal":{"name":"Terrae Incognitae-The Journal of the Society for the History of Discoveries","volume":"10 10","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134991248","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"<b>Kept from All Contagion: Germ Theory, Disease, and the Dilemma of Human Contact in Late Nineteenth-Century Literature</b> <b>Kept from All Contagion: Germ Theory, Disease, and the Dilemma of Human Contact in Late Nineteenth-Century Literature</b> . By Karl Nixon. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2021. 10 + 263 pp., acknowledgments, notes, bibliography, and index. $32.95 (PB). ISBN: 978-1-4384-7848-7.","authors":"David G. Schuster","doi":"10.1080/00822884.2023.2277590","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00822884.2023.2277590","url":null,"abstract":"\"Kept from All Contagion: Germ Theory, Disease, and the Dilemma of Human Contact in Late Nineteenth-Century Literature.\" Terrae Incognitae, ahead-of-print(ahead-of-print), pp. 1–2","PeriodicalId":40672,"journal":{"name":"Terrae Incognitae-The Journal of the Society for the History of Discoveries","volume":"26 23","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134954308","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Marckalada: Quando l’America aveva un altro nome","authors":"Benjamin B. Olshin","doi":"10.1080/00822884.2023.2233766","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00822884.2023.2233766","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":40672,"journal":{"name":"Terrae Incognitae-The Journal of the Society for the History of Discoveries","volume":"55 1","pages":"206 - 207"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2023-05-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48125725","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Recent Literature in the History of Exploration","authors":"Noah Baumgartner, R. Weiner","doi":"10.1080/00822884.2023.2233343","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00822884.2023.2233343","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":40672,"journal":{"name":"Terrae Incognitae-The Journal of the Society for the History of Discoveries","volume":"55 1","pages":"196 - 201"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2023-05-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41828351","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Mapping Christopher Columbus: An Historical Geography of His Early Life to 1492","authors":"Lydia Towns","doi":"10.1080/00822884.2023.2233771","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00822884.2023.2233771","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":40672,"journal":{"name":"Terrae Incognitae-The Journal of the Society for the History of Discoveries","volume":"55 1","pages":"213 - 214"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2023-05-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45560845","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Jesuit Cartography in the Rockies: Pierre-Jean De Smet and the Mapping of Native Landscapes of the American Northwest","authors":"Mirela Altic","doi":"10.1080/00822884.2023.2233268","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00822884.2023.2233268","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, we study Jesuit mapmaking in North America in the period after the restoration of the Order (1814), when the Jesuits regained their important place as missionaries and explorers, playing a significant role in the mapping and territorialization of the United States. In the period between the 1830s and the 1850s, Flemish Jesuit Pierre-Jean De Smet mapped the territories of the future states of Iowa, Idaho, Montana, Colorado, Washington, Oregon, and South Dakota, as well as of the Canadian modern-states of Alberta and British Columbia. Apart from physical geography, he paid special attention to the human geography of the region, thus mapping Native American landscapes, US military installations, and other landmarks in the American Northwest. His maps gained considerable attention from the US Government and were thus used for updating official maps by the Topographic Corps and various state affairs documents.","PeriodicalId":40672,"journal":{"name":"Terrae Incognitae-The Journal of the Society for the History of Discoveries","volume":"55 1","pages":"133 - 169"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2023-05-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41663600","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Monsters, Freaks, and Indians: Characters in Exploration Narratives","authors":"R. Weiner","doi":"10.1080/00822884.2023.2236900","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00822884.2023.2236900","url":null,"abstract":"Explorers’ observations and actions were influenced by their cultural baggage, mind-sets, biases, expectations, desires, interests, and more, shaping the ways in which they depicted, classified, and utilized the colonial landscapes and peoples they encountered. In this issue of TI , we are pleased to present three engaging, informative, and provocative pieces that examine explorers’ discussions of peoples that they characterized and classified as monsters, freaks, and Indians. The issue begins with Anastasia Kayutla’s engaging and innovative article, “In Search of Monsters: Constructing the ‘Other’ in Spanish Chronicles of the Americas and Early Russian Descriptions of Siberia.” There are several aspects of this piece that readers will appreciate, not least of which is the subject matter. Kayutla documents explorers’ descriptions of a host of strange beings, including monsters, giants, beings with a combination of human and non-human animal features and qualities, and communities of women with remarkable characteristics and traditions. Kayutla maintains that explorers’ bizarre descriptions constituted a form of “other-ing,” strange representations that supported explorers’ endeavors to dominate the places and peoples they encountered. Examining the Americas and Russia over the course of the early modern era, readers will also appreciate the article’s broad comparative analysis of exploration. By taking on the atypical project of comparing these two regions, the study is pathbreaking and innovative. Furthermore, Kayutla has some intriguing comparisons, not least of which is her assertion that notwith-standing the fact that the regions had limited contact with one another (even in the transmission of knowledge), explorers’ depictions of monsters and other fantastical beings was a commonality. This claim is based upon yet another aspect of her study that readers should find informative, namely, her sources. She shows that the bible, ancient sources (e.g. Herodotus), and medieval travel accounts influenced explorers in both the Americas and Russia. Readers will also find the following article—Mirela Altic’s piece titled “Jesuit Cartography in the Rockies: Pierre-Jean de Smet and the","PeriodicalId":40672,"journal":{"name":"Terrae Incognitae-The Journal of the Society for the History of Discoveries","volume":"55 1","pages":"103 - 105"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2023-05-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41593522","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Scurvy: How a Surgeon, a Mariner, and a Gentleman Solved the Greatest Medical Mystery of the Age of Sail","authors":"R. Seidemann","doi":"10.1080/00822884.2023.2233764","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00822884.2023.2233764","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":40672,"journal":{"name":"Terrae Incognitae-The Journal of the Society for the History of Discoveries","volume":"55 1","pages":"203 - 204"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2023-05-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42413207","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Soviets in Space: Russia’s Cosmonauts and the Space Frontier","authors":"D. Reinhartz","doi":"10.1080/00822884.2023.2233765","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00822884.2023.2233765","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":40672,"journal":{"name":"Terrae Incognitae-The Journal of the Society for the History of Discoveries","volume":"55 1","pages":"205 - 205"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2023-05-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45693693","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The Wardian Case: How a Simple Box Moved Plants and Changed the World","authors":"Nicholas Miller","doi":"10.1080/00822884.2023.2233769","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00822884.2023.2233769","url":null,"abstract":"West that would help “Jefferson’s vision of an empire for liberty move toward becoming a reality” (p. 129). Jared Orsi’s “An Empire and Ecology of Liberty” details how the average American in Pike’s time viewed the land and its usage in different terms than the indigenous inhabitants. Using Pike’s relations with the Pawnee as a model, Orsi notes how Pike was a harbinger of new forms of resource use, trade patterns, and property ownership: “whoever imprinted their culture on the land would leave an enduring legacy” (p. 157). Leo E. Olivia’s essay compares and contrasts the expedition of Pike and Spanish troops led by Lt. Facundo Melgares from Santa Fe. Melgares and Pike became friendly, and Melgares’s information would prove instrumental to Pike’s reconnaissance of Spanish outposts, his description of the land, and even the eventual creation of the Santa Fe Trail. Grandly, Oliva makes Melgares and Pike foundational in the “annexation of Texas in 1845 and the war with Mexico, 1846–48, which brought the entire Southwest” into the U.S. (p. 181). In a long essay, William Foley dissects the important connections between Pike and the shady James A. Wilkinson. Wilkinson, general, conspirator, Burr associate, and spy in Spanish employ, has clouded Pike’s reputation since the early 1800s, though Foley and others ultimately absolve Pike of any of Wilkinson’s skullduggeries. This volume offers much-needed reevaluation of Zebulon Pike and his western exploring expeditions in the history of the American West. The overall implication of the essays is to suggest that Pike’s importance was on par with, or in some aspects, even surpassing that of the much-famed exploration of Lewis and Clark. Pike was the herald of what would later be called “Manifest Destiny,” new ecological and economic utilization of the land, and a confrontation of peoples and nations. The importance of geography, cartography, and scientific exploration also played a role in these events, and Pike deserves greater recognition for his contributions, however “lost” or compromised he might be by the intrigues of others. This is a comparatively short book, easy to read, with a wealth of material in notes, maps, appendices, and a select bibliography. It is a publication that any person interested in the exploration of the North American mainland should have on the shelf.","PeriodicalId":40672,"journal":{"name":"Terrae Incognitae-The Journal of the Society for the History of Discoveries","volume":"15 2","pages":"210 - 212"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2023-05-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41309209","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}