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In peacetime: the scientific circumnavigation of the U.S. Exploring Expedition (1838-1842)

Grant number: 14/50527-8
Support Opportunities:Regular Research Grants - Publications - Books published in Brazil
Start date: January 01, 2015
End date: December 31, 2015
Field of knowledge:Humanities - History - History of America
Principal Investigator:Mary Anne Junqueira
Grantee:Mary Anne Junqueira
Host Institution: Faculdade de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas (FFLCH). Universidade de São Paulo (USP). São Paulo , SP, Brazil

Abstract

This research discusses the U.S Exploring Expedition (1838-1842), which was the first scientific circumnavigation by the U.S. Navy in peacetime. The goals of this expedition are explored in relation to other circumnavigations of the period (undertaken by England, France, Spain and Russia), this study discusses the mapping of oceans, islands, shoals, and coasts carried aunt by the expedition using inaccurate charts. This research examines the nature of the knowledge that the North American government sought through this enterprise and it a/so examines aspects of imperial culture that are expressed in comments about Ibero-American countries containing within the twenty-three volume travelogue produced by the expedition. This study is the product of a thesis that resulted in the author being awarded the title of Associate Professor in U.S. History at the History Department, FFLCH, and University of São Paulo, Brazil. (AU)

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