This book examines British scientific and antiquarian travels in the "North," circa 1790-1830. British perceptions, representations and imaginings of the North are considered part of late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century processes of British self-fashioning as a Northern nation, and key in unifying the expanding North Atlantic empire.

Autorentext
Angela Byrne is Lecturer in History at the University of Greenwich, UK.

Inhalt
PART I: "MOST VALUABLE AND INTERESTING TO THE SCIENCE OF OUR COUNTRY": NORTHERN EXPLORATORY TRAVELS Introduction: 'Ask Where's the North?' 1. Formative Influences and the Call of the North PART II: A LIVING POMPEII": ANTIQUARIANISM, IDENTITY, AND THE NORTH 2. An 'aboriginal district of Britain': The European North, Popular Culture, and the Search for Common Roots 3. An Intercontinental North: North Britons and Native North Americans 4. Treasures Inestimable: Collecting and Displaying the North PART III: GEOGRAPHIES OF THE NORTH 5. At the Boundary of the Temperate and Frigid Zones: The North, the Sciences, and Landscape Appreciation 6. Worlds of Knowledge, Worlds Apart?: Native and Newcomer Geographies 7. "Our Surprizing Qualifications", or, "Calculated to Make on the Minds of this Simple People a Great Impression": Interpreting Displays of Romantic Science among Northern Indigenous Communities