Arctic Circles and Imperial Knowledge
The Franklin Family, Indigenous Intermediaries, and the Politics of Truth
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Product details:
- Publisher Bloomsbury Academic
- Date of Publication 21 August 2025
- Number of Volumes Paperback
- ISBN 9781350292970
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages pages
- Size 234x156 mm
- Language English
- Illustrations 10 bw illus 700
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Long description:
In 1845 an expedition led by Sir John Franklin vanished in the Canadian Arctic. The enduring obsession with the Franklin mystery, and in particular Inuit information about its fate, is partly due to the ways in which information was circulated in these imperial spaces. This book examines how the Franklins and other explorer families engaged in science, exploration and the exchange of information in the early to mid-19th century. It follows the Franklins from the Arctic to Van Diemen's Land, charting how they worked with intermediaries, imperial humanitarians and scientists, and shows how they used these experiences to claim a moral right to information.
Arctic Circles and Imperial Knowledge shows how the indigenous peoples, translators, fur traders, whalers, convicts and sailors who explorer families relied upon for information were both indispensable and inconvenient to the Franklins. It reveals a deep entanglement of polar expedition with British imperialism, and shows how geographical knowledge intertwined with convict policy, humanitarianism, genocide and authority. In these imperial spaces families such as the Franklins negotiated their tenuous authority over knowledge to engage with the politics of truth and question the credibility and trustworthiness of those they sought to silence.
Table of Contents:
Introduction
1. "Endeared to Me By Affliction": Love, Death and the First Land Arctic Expedition, 1819-1822
2. "He a Discoverer, Forsooth!": Arctic Sociability from Pall Mall to Great Bear Lake in the 1820s
3. "All Things Are Queer and Opposite": The Franklins in Van Diemen's Land, 1837-1843
4. "Have You Seen the Esquimaux Sketch of the Ships?": Disappearing Ships and Inuit Maps, 1845-1849
5. "The Argument from Negative Evidence": Inuit Testimony, British Graves and the Myth of the Open Polar Sea, 1850-1852
6. "If You Can Command the Columns of the Times." The Tasmanian Case for Franklin's Rescue and the end of Penal Transportation, 1852-1854
7. "Melancholy Relics": the Imperial Afterlives of Sir John and Lady Jane Franklin
Conclusion
Notes
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