Exploration: A Very Short Introduction

by Stewart A Weaver

Book Overview

We live in an age of globalization on every conceivable level, but globalization has a deeper history than politicians and pundits often allow, and nothing is more significant to its history than exploration. Wherever trade or faith or empire followed, explorers usually led. Their motives were as many-sided and various as their actions; their legacies are contested and mixed. But none can doubt the significance of explorers to the making of the modern...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199946957
• ISBN13: 9780199946952
• Release Date: January 2015
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 152 Pages
• Weight: 0.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 4.1" x 6.7"