An Empire of Air and Water: Uncolonizable Space in the British Imagination, 1750-1850 by Siobhan Carroll

An Empire of Air and Water: Uncolonizable Space in the British Imagination, 1750-1850

Siobhan Carroll

304 pages first pub 2015 (editions)

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Planetary spaces such as the poles, the oceans, the atmosphere, and subterranean regions captured the British imperial imagination. Intangible, inhospitable, or inaccessible, these blank spaces--what Siobhan Carroll calls "atopias"--existed beyond...

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