ABSTRACT
Between 1750 and 1920 over 15,000 people visited Antarctica. Despite such a large number the historiography has ignored all but a few celebrated explorers. Maddison presents a study of Antarctic exploration, telling the story of these forgotten facilitators, he argues that Antarctic exploration can be seen as an offshoot of European colonialism.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
chapter |8 pages
Introduction
part |45 pages
Colonialism, Capitalism and the Discovery of Antarctica
chapter |22 pages
Colonialism and the Discovery of Antarctica
part |91 pages
Class and Antarctic Exploration, 1750–1850
chapter |21 pages
The First Antarctic Working Class
chapter |22 pages
Exploration as Labour, 1750–1850
chapter |21 pages
Labour as Exploration: the Fur Frontier
chapter |23 pages
Antarctic Exploration and the Dialectics of Power
part |52 pages
Imperialism and the Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration, 1890–1920
