Between the Arctic & the Adriatic: Polar Exploration, Science & Empire in the Habsburg Monarchy
Exploration was a defining aspect of how European societies encountered and established relations with the wider world. It set the stage for worldwide empires and laid the foundations for understandings of planetary existence. Exploration facilitated the exchange of commodities and ideas, the migrat...
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Harvard University
2014
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Online Access: | http://dissertations.umi.com/gsas.harvard.inactive:11800 http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:HUL.InstRepos:13070045 |