Strait of Magellan rediscovered: science, politics, commerce and the exploring expeditions during the 1820’s and 1830’s
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https://doi.org/10.5433/1984-3356.2014v7n13p254Keywords:
Strait of Magellan, Travel accounts, Exploring expeditions, British Royal Navy, Phillip Parker KingAbstract
This article focuses on the growing interests of Western great powers on the Strait of Magellan, Patagonia and Tierra de Fuego during the first half of the 19th century. Strategic government objectives are connected to those of commercial and hunting companies to comprehend the funding of official exploring and mapping expedition to these lands. It analyses two travel accounts of British commanders of the Royal Navy who travelled and described that region. They intended to conciliate science and personal interests when publishing their travel books describing discoveries, adventures and the deconstruction of tales and the conflictuous contacts with local native peoples.References
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CALDER, Alex; LAMB, Jonathan; ORR, Bridget. Voyages and Beaches. Pacific encounters, 1769-1840. Honolulu: University of Hawai’i Press, 1999.
CANCLINI, Arnoldo. Maria reina Tehuelche: amor y poder en la Patagonia – 1820 a 1843. Ushuaia: Zagier & Urruty, 2006.
CICERCHIA, Ricardo Cicerchia; O’MEAGHER, Matthew (ed). Tales of land and sea: travel narratives of the Trans-Pacific South, 1700-1900. Unley: Australian Humanities Press, 2003.
DARWIN, John. The Empire project: the rise and the fall of the British world-system, 1830-1970. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011.
DRAYTON, Richard. Nature’s government: science, imperial Britain and the ‘improvement’ of the world. Londres: Yale University Press, 2000.
FALKNER, Thomas. Descripción de la Patagonia y de las partes contiguas de la América del Sur. Con estudio preliminar de Raúl J. Mandrini. Buenos Aires: Taurus, 2004.
FITZROY, Robert. Narrative of the surveying voyages of His Majesty's Ships Adventure and Beagle, between the years 1826 and 1836. Londres: Henry Colburn, 1839.
GERBI, Antonello. O Novo Mundo: história de uma polêmica. Tradução de Bernardo Joffily. São Paulo: Cia das Letras, 1996.
GUEDES, Max Justo. Por mares dantes navegados. IN: MENEZES, Pedro da Cunha e. O Rio de Janeiro na rota dos Mares do Sul. Rio de Janeiro: Andrea Jakobsson, 2007.
GUILLON, Jacques. Dumont d’Urville. Paris: France-Empire, 1986.
HENARE, Amiria. Museums, Anthropology and Imperial exchange. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005.
HORDERN, Marsden. King of the Australian Coast: the work of Phillip Parker King in the Mermaid and Barthust (1817-1822). Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 2003.
JUNQUEIRA, Mary Anne. Os objetivos da circunavegação da U.S. Exploring Expedition (1838-1842): longitude, mapeamento náutico e instituição das coordenadas geográficas modernas. História, ciência, saúde-Manguinhos. Rio de Janeiro: Fiocruz, v. 19, n. 1, 2012 .
KING, Phillip Parker. Narrative of the surveying voyages of His Majesty's Ships Adventure and Beagle, between the years 1826 and 1836. Londres: Henry Colburn, 1839.
LAMB, Jonathan; SMITH, Vanessa; THOMAS, Nicholas. (ed.) Exploration & Exchange. A South Seas anthology (1680-1900). Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2000.
LAMBERT, David; LESTER, Ana (Ed). Colonial lives across the British Empire. Imperial careering in the long Nineteenth Century. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006.
LANDES, David S. Prometeu desacorrentado: transformação tecnológica e desenvolvimento industrial na Europa ocidental, de 1750 até os nossos dias. 2ª edição, Rio de Janeiro: Campus, 2005.
MARTIN, Jose Maria Moreno; PUIG-SAMPER, Miguel Angel; REVERTE, Javier; VALLESPIN, Fernando. The Malaspina expedition: a scientific and political voyage around the world, 1789-1794. Nashville: Turner, 2010.
PHILBRICK, Nathaniel. No coração do mar. São Paulo: Cia. das Letras, 2001.
PIGAFETTA, Antonio. A primeira viagem ao redor do mundo. Porto Alegre: LP&M, 2005.
PRATT, Mary Louise. Os olhos do Império: relatos de viagem e transculturação. Tradução de Jézio Hernani Bonfim Gutierre. Bauru: Edusc, 1999.
RUBIÉS, Joan Pau. Travel writing and ethnography. IN: HULME, Peter; YOUNGS, Tim (eds). The Cambridge companion to travel writing. 3ª edição. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007.
SALVATORE, Ricardo D. Los lugares del saber. Contextos locales y redes transnacionales em la formación del conocimiento moderno. Buenos Aires: Beatriz Viterbo Editora, 2007.
SARASOLA, Carlos Martinez. Nuestros paisanos, los indios. Vida, historia y destino de lãs comunidades indígenas en la Argentina. Buenos Aires: Emecé, 1999.
WASHBROOK, D. A. India, 1818-1860: two faces of colonialism. IN: PORTER, Andrew (ed). The nineteenth century. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999.
WEDELL, James. A Voyage towards the South Pole, performed in the years 1822-1824, containing an examination of the Antartic Sea, and a visit to Tierra del Fuego. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011.
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PASSETTI, Gabriel. Strait of Magellan rediscovered: science, politics, commerce and the exploring expeditions during the 1820’s and 1830’s. Antíteses, [S. l.], v. 7, n. 13, p. 254–276, 2014. DOI: 10.5433/1984-3356.2014v7n13p254. Disponível em: https://ojs.uel.br/revistas/uel/index.php/antiteses/article/view/16520. Acesso em: 4 jul. 2024.
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