The Limits of Utopia

Henri Duveyrier and the Exploration of the Sahara in the Nineteenth Century

Datos Bibliográficos

ID4633809
AutoresMaree Heffernan (0000-0002-5646-5670, autor de correspondencia), Michael Heffernan (0000-0002-9173-2316)
Año1989
Volumen155
Número3
Páginas342
Fecha de publicación1989-11-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaGeographical Journal (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0016-7398 • E-ISSN: 1475-4959
EditorialJSTOR (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.2307/635209
OpenAlexW1973519902
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas13
Referencias citadas12

This article describes the life and work of Henri Duveyrier (1840-1892), the distinguished French geographer and North African explorer. Duveyrier was committed to peaceful contact between Europe and Africa and was influenced by saint-simonian philosophy. After 1870 his utopian beliefs brought him into conflict with more aggressive French imperialists. Duveyrier's life reveals both the centrality of geographical knowledge to the development of European colonial theory, and the complex and shifting nature of the European colonial mind in the nineteenth century

Aesthetics · Art · Art history · Utopia · Global Maritime and Colonial Histories · Historical Geography and Geographical Thought · History · Philosophy