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Arctic Circles: the Franklin family, networks of knowledge, and early nineteenth century Arctic exploration, 1818-1859
… of polite science in London in the 1820s, to the penal colony of Van Diemen’s Land (Tasmania) where he was the lieutenant governor from 1837 to 1843, to Britain in the 1840s and 1850s where they organized expeditions to go in search of Franklin after he disappeared in an attempt to chart the …
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"The ""end of the earth"": Sakhalin Island in the Russian imperial imagination, 1849-1906"
… of Sakhalin, the island’s intended role in penal reform, and the resulting new Sakhalin identity, the dissertation explores the relationships between discourse and policy, science and its implementation, and Russian identity as defined from above and as experienced from below. Sources …