Civilising missions, natural history and British industry: Livingstone in the Zambezi

Endeavour

Volumn 30, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 50-54

  Dritsas, Lawrence ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FAILURE ANALYSIS; MARKETING; PROJECT MANAGEMENT;

THE ZAMBESI EXPEDITION;

NATURAL RESOURCES;

AFRICA; CLERGY; HISTORY; POLITICS; REVIEW; TRAVEL; UNITED KINGDOM;

AFRICA; EXPEDITIONS; GREAT BRITAIN; HISTORY, 19TH CENTURY; MISSIONS AND MISSIONARIES; NATURAL HISTORY; POLITICS;

EID: 33744972073     PISSN: 01609327     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.endeavour.2006.04.002     Document Type: Review

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1. Anonymous (1857-1858) The Farewell Livingstone Festival, Proceedings of the Royal Geographical Society of London 2, pp. 116-142
2. Robinson R., et al. Africa and the Victorians: The Official Mind of Imperialism (1961), Macmillan Press (London, UK)
3. In reference to Zambesia, Livingstone commented 'It is certainly the iron age here' Livingstone and Livingstone (1865) Narrative of an Expedition to the Zambesi, John Murray (London, UK), p. 401
4. Complete versions of the instructions are published in Wallis, J. ed. (1956) The Zambezi Expedition of David Livingstone, Chatto & Windus (London, UK)
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7. Murchison to Clarendon, 19 and 24 October 1856, Bodleian Library, Oxford, Clarendon Papers, Dep.C.103, ff. 691-94 and 695-97, respectively
8. For examples of this rhetoric see Monk, W., ed. (1858) Dr. Livingstone's Cambridge Lectures, Deighton, Bell and Co. (London, UK)
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10. Ibid. 679
11. Clendennen, G. (1978) Charles Livingstone: A Biographical Study, with Emphasis on His Accomplishments on the Zambesi Expedition (Unpublished Ph.D., University of Edinburgh), p. 61
12. Clendennen, G. (1978) Charles Livingstone: A Biographical Study, with Emphasis on His Accomplishments on the Zambesi Expedition (Unpublished Ph.D., University of Edinburgh), p. 61
13. Foreign Office to the Secretary of the Admiralty, 11 January 1858, RNML, MSS 120 Box 1/1858
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15. Kirk's instructions are reproduced in Wallis, J. ed., The Zambezi Expedition of David Livingstone, pp. 425-427
16. Instructions in matters relating to vegetable products, geology, zoology and meteorology: for Dr. Meller, Royal Naval Museum Library, MSS120/Box 2/Miscellaneous
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24. The interesting tale of the Ma Robert is detailed in Parr, J. (1972) The Sinking of the Ma Robert: An Excursion into Mid-Nineteenth Century Steelmaking, Technology & Culture 13
25. Livingstone, D. (1859-1860) Latest Accounts from Dr. Livingstone, F.R.G.S., of the Central Africa Expedition, Proceedings of the Royal Geographical Society of London 4
26. Livingstone, D. and Livingstone, C. (1865), Narrative of an Expedition, p. 266
27. Anonymous, (20 January 1863) The East African Mission (Reprinted from The Examiner), The Times, p. 5