Exploration History Scholarship: An “Untamable Beast”

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Notes

¹ Norman J. Thrower, “About Eight Decades in the History of Discoveries: Some Personal Reminiscences,” 49th Annual Meeting of the Society for the History of Discoveries, Arlington, Texas, 2008.

² Harry Liebersohn, “A Half Century of Shifting Narrative Perspectives on Encounters,” in Reinterpreting Exploration: The West in the World, ed. Dane Kennedy (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014), pp. 38–79, esp. 39.

³ Luca Codignola, “North American Discovery and Exploration Historiography, 1993–2001: From Old-Fashioned Anniversaries to the Tall Order of Global History?” Acadiensis 31, no. 2 (Spring, 2002), pp. 185–206.

⁴ Quoted in Codignola, “North American Discovery,” p. 187; the original source: James Axtell, “Columbian Encounters: 1992–1995,” The William and Mary Quarterly 52, no. 4 (October, 1995), pp. 650–1.

⁵ Luca Codignola, “North American Discovery,” p. 187.

⁶ Ibid., p. 188.

⁷ Liebersohn, “Shifting Narratives,” p. 38.

⁸ Some chapters haven’t been assigned yet; those interested in participating should contact the editors.

⁹ Sanford H. Bederman, “A Geographer’s Reflections on Exploration and Discovery,” presented at the 45th Annual Meeting of the Society for the History of Discoveries, Cody, Wyoming, 2004. Bederman was referring to Driver’s Geography Militant: Cultures of Exploration and Empire (Malden: Blackwell Publishers, 2001).

¹⁰ Terrae Incognitae 48, no. 1 (2016).

¹¹ See, for example, Alberto Cauli, “The Duke of Abruzzi’s Noble Idea of Winning the North Pole for Italy: Popularization of the Arctic Expedition led by Luigi Amedeo of Savoia,” Terrae Incognitae 51, no. 2 (August, 2019), pp. 153–69; and Ricarda Ledesma Alonso, “‘Accidental Nations,’ ‘Nations in the Making’: James Bryce’s Colonialist Interpretation of Latin American Nations,” Terrae Incognitae 52, no. 1 (April, 2020), pp. 65–85.

¹² Axtell, “Columbian Encounters,” pp. 650–1.

¹³ Liebersohn, “Shifting Narratives,” p. 38.

¹⁴ Axtell, “Columbian Encounters,” p. 651.