Geography Militant

Acknowledgements.
1. Geographical Knowledge, Exploration and Empire.

2. The Royal Geographical Society and the Empire of Science.

3. Hints to Travellers: Observation in the Field.

4. Missionary of Science: David Livingstone and the Exploration of Africa.

5. Becoming an Explorer: The Martyrdom of Winwood Reade.

6. Exploration by Warfare: Henry Morton Stanley and his Critics.

7. Making Representations: From an African Exhibition to the High Court of Justice.

8. Exploring Darkest England: Mapping the Heart of Empire.

9. Geography Militant and its After-life.

Index.

Felix Driver is Professor of Human Geography at Royal Holloway, University of London. He is the author of Power and Pauperism (1993) and the co--editor of Imperial Cities: Landscape, Display and Identity (1999) and Nature and Science: Essays in the History of Geographical Knowledge (1992). He is an editor of History Workshop Journal.

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