An Empire of Air and Water: Uncolonizable Space in the British Imagination, 175-185

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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 outliers as the natural limits of imperial expansion, but scientific and naval advances in the nineteenth...

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:0812246780

ISBN13:9780812246780

Release Date:March 2015

Publisher:University of Pennsylvania Press

Length:304 Pages

Weight:1.40 lbs.

Dimensions:1.1" x 6.1" x 9.2"

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