Parution : Celebrity and Polar Exploration. Making French Polar Explorers, 1860s-1930s
Chères et chers collègues,
J’ai le plaisir d’annoncer la publication de Celebrity and Polar Exploration. Making French Polar Explorers, 1860s-1930s (Brill): <doi.org/10.1163/9789004762145> doi.org/10.1163/9789004762145.
Présentation :
This book analyses various French polar expedition projects that were proposed between the 1860s and the late 1930s, comparing the projects that led to expeditions with those that did not. It shows that the successful would-be explorers had to become famous first, before they could secure support and funding for their plans. Explorers were “made” partly by themselves, but also largely through the efforts of the many others who promoted their plans: armchair scientists and geographers, journalists, politicians, and common citizens, all of whom contributed to the formation of a French culture of polar exploration.
Table des matières:
Part 1 Gustave Lambert’s French Polar Expedition (1865–1870)
1. Making an Explorer 2. Funding Lambert’s Polar Crusade
Part 2 Assessing Polar Exploration, 1870–1900s
3. Polar Visions: Imagining Polar Nature and the Uses of the Polar Regions 4. Polar Materialities: Collecting and Displaying 5. Polar Stories: Narrating the Polar Regions
Part 3 Charcot’s Antarctic Expeditions 1900–1912
6. Jean-Baptiste Charcot’s First Antarctic Expedition 7. Charcot’s Second Antarctic Expedition
Part 4 Reinventing Polar Exploration (1913–1939)
8. Faster Expeditions and News: Technological Reinventions of Polar Exploration in the 1920s 9. Film, Ethnology and Colonialism: France and the Greenlandic Inuit in the Interwar Years 10. Making Polar Exploration Unexceptional: Charcot and Oceanography in the Interwar Period
Bien cordialement,
Alexandre Simon-Ekeland
(« Senior Academic Librarian », Université d’Oslo)
J’ai le plaisir d’annoncer la publication de Celebrity and Polar Exploration. Making French Polar Explorers, 1860s-1930s (Brill): <doi.org/10.1163/9789004762145> doi.org/10.1163/9789004762145.
Présentation :
This book analyses various French polar expedition projects that were proposed between the 1860s and the late 1930s, comparing the projects that led to expeditions with those that did not. It shows that the successful would-be explorers had to become famous first, before they could secure support and funding for their plans. Explorers were “made” partly by themselves, but also largely through the efforts of the many others who promoted their plans: armchair scientists and geographers, journalists, politicians, and common citizens, all of whom contributed to the formation of a French culture of polar exploration.
Table des matières:
Part 1 Gustave Lambert’s French Polar Expedition (1865–1870)
1. Making an Explorer 2. Funding Lambert’s Polar Crusade
Part 2 Assessing Polar Exploration, 1870–1900s
3. Polar Visions: Imagining Polar Nature and the Uses of the Polar Regions 4. Polar Materialities: Collecting and Displaying 5. Polar Stories: Narrating the Polar Regions
Part 3 Charcot’s Antarctic Expeditions 1900–1912
6. Jean-Baptiste Charcot’s First Antarctic Expedition 7. Charcot’s Second Antarctic Expedition
Part 4 Reinventing Polar Exploration (1913–1939)
8. Faster Expeditions and News: Technological Reinventions of Polar Exploration in the 1920s 9. Film, Ethnology and Colonialism: France and the Greenlandic Inuit in the Interwar Years 10. Making Polar Exploration Unexceptional: Charcot and Oceanography in the Interwar Period
Bien cordialement,
Alexandre Simon-Ekeland
(« Senior Academic Librarian », Université d’Oslo)