Stewart Weaver
Biographic Data
| ID | 3962567 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Stewart Weaver |
| GIVEN NAMES | Stewart |
| FAMILY NAME | Weaver |
| SIGNATURE | WEAVER S |
| AFFILIATIONS | a Stanford University , California , USA |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 14 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1986 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
The Infrastructure of Ice: Mapping the Fedchenko Glacier
In 1928, surveyors attached to a joint German-Soviet expedition to the Pamir Mountains produced the first detailed scientific map of the Fedchenko Glacier, the largest non-polar glacier in the world. More than a cartographic record, the map was an infrastructural act that translated the glacier’s crevassed mass into a legible form that could be circulated in atlases, mobilized in geopolitical claims, and embedded within Soviet projects of high-mo…
An Empire of Magnetism: Global Science and the British Magnetic Survey in the Age of Imperialism
Climate Witness: Oral Environmental History and Community-Based Research—A Case Study from Trans-Himalayan India
On August 5, 2010, a violent cloudburst dumped fourteen inches of rain on Ladakh, a mountain desert region in the far north of India accustomed to getting just three inches of rain in a year. Five years later, flooding recurred on a wider scale, destroying buildings, roads, fields, and orchards all over Ladakh and provoking a wide-ranging discussion among locals about the causes of climate catastrophe. In this essay, we attend to those local voic…
Fallen Giants: A History of Himalayan Mountaineering from the Age of Empire to the Age of Extremes
The first successful ascent of Mount Everest in 1953 by Sir Edmund Hillary and his Sherpa teammate Tenzing Norgay is a familiar saga, but less well known are the tales of many other adventurers who also came to test their skills and courage against the world’s highest and most dangerous mountains. In this lively and generously illustrated book, historians Maurice Isserman and Stewart Weaver present the first comprehensive history of Himalayan mou…
Exploration and the Enlightenment
‘Exploration and the Enlightenment ’ considers a “Second Great Age of Discovery” that came about during the eighteenth-century Enlightenment. It began with the 1735 Geodesic Mission to the Equator, designed to ascertain the true figure of the Earth. Never before had so large and learned a group of Europeans headed into the remote interior of the New World for an expressly scientific purpose or the results of an expedition been so elaborately publ…
Exploration and empire
‘Exploration and empire’ begins with Jefferson's famous “Corps of Discovery” up the Missouri River and into the heart of the Great Plains lead by Meriwether Lewis and William Clark. Its two overriding purposes were to find a practicable water route across the North American continent and to establish peaceful relations with the native peoples now manifestly destined to come under American rule. The essential colonial context of late-nineteenth-ce…
The age of exploration
‘The age of exploration ’ considers why textbooks and teachers privilege late-medieval and early-modern Europe when designating “the age of exploration” and not the earlier Greek, Roman, Arab, Norse, Polynesian, or Mongol achievements in terms of exploration and cultural reach. It is for three main reasons. Firstly, because the late-medieval extrusion of European maritime power and the associated record of exploration were global in reach. Second…
Fallen Giants: A History of Himalayan Mountaineering from the Age of Empire to the Age of Extremes
The history of mountaineering has, with a few notable exceptions, been written either by climbers or by authors intrigued with the drama, adventure, and risk of the sport. In Fallen Giants Maurice Isserman and Stewart Weaver have written something rather different, a deeply researched and comprehensive treatment of mountaineering in the Himalaya that is an engaging narrative and an illuminating analysis of larger themes. The authors recount many …
London in the Age of Industrialisation: Entrepreneurs, Labour Force and Living Conditions, 1700-1850
Introduction Part I. Wealth and Occupations in London: 1. The structure of London's economy and labour force 2. Manufacturing, services and the London bourgeoisie Part II. Fluctuations and Mortality in the Metropolis: 3. Trends, cycles and wars 4. Seasonal fluctuations 5. The population of London: the ending of the old regime Part III. The Standard of Living and the London Trades: 6. The making of a wage rate 7. The challenge of sweated labour: a…
William Cobbett and Rural Popular Culture
Citizens and Saints: Politics and Anti-Politics in Early British Socialism. Gregory Claeys
John Fielden and the Politics of Popular Radicalism, 1832-1847
On Living in an Old Country: The National Past in Contemporary Britain.Patrick Wright
The politics of British foreign policy in the era of Disraeli and Gladstone
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The politics of British foreign policy in the era of Disraeli and Gladstone
On Living in an Old Country: The National Past in Contemporary Britain.Patrick Wright
John Fielden and the Politics of Popular Radicalism, 1832-1847
Citizens and Saints: Politics and Anti-Politics in Early British Socialism. Gregory Claeys
William Cobbett and Rural Popular Culture
London in the Age of Industrialisation: Entrepreneurs, Labour Force and Living Conditions, 1700-1850
Introduction Part I. Wealth and Occupations in London: 1. The structure of London's economy and labour force 2. Manufacturing, services and the London bourgeoisie Part II. Fluctuations and Mortality in the Metropolis: 3. Trends, cycles and wars 4. Seasonal fluctuations 5. The population of London: the ending of the old regime Part III. The Standard of Living and the London Trades: 6. The making of a wage rate 7. The challenge of sweated labour: a…
Fallen Giants: A History of Himalayan Mountaineering from the Age of Empire to the Age of Extremes
The history of mountaineering has, with a few notable exceptions, been written either by climbers or by authors intrigued with the drama, adventure, and risk of the sport. In Fallen Giants Maurice Isserman and Stewart Weaver have written something rather different, a deeply researched and comprehensive treatment of mountaineering in the Himalaya that is an engaging narrative and an illuminating analysis of larger themes. The authors recount many …
Exploration and the Enlightenment
‘Exploration and the Enlightenment ’ considers a “Second Great Age of Discovery” that came about during the eighteenth-century Enlightenment. It began with the 1735 Geodesic Mission to the Equator, designed to ascertain the true figure of the Earth. Never before had so large and learned a group of Europeans headed into the remote interior of the New World for an expressly scientific purpose or the results of an expedition been so elaborately publ…
Exploration and empire
‘Exploration and empire’ begins with Jefferson's famous “Corps of Discovery” up the Missouri River and into the heart of the Great Plains lead by Meriwether Lewis and William Clark. Its two overriding purposes were to find a practicable water route across the North American continent and to establish peaceful relations with the native peoples now manifestly destined to come under American rule. The essential colonial context of late-nineteenth-ce…
The age of exploration
‘The age of exploration ’ considers why textbooks and teachers privilege late-medieval and early-modern Europe when designating “the age of exploration” and not the earlier Greek, Roman, Arab, Norse, Polynesian, or Mongol achievements in terms of exploration and cultural reach. It is for three main reasons. Firstly, because the late-medieval extrusion of European maritime power and the associated record of exploration were global in reach. Second…
Fallen Giants: A History of Himalayan Mountaineering from the Age of Empire to the Age of Extremes
The first successful ascent of Mount Everest in 1953 by Sir Edmund Hillary and his Sherpa teammate Tenzing Norgay is a familiar saga, but less well known are the tales of many other adventurers who also came to test their skills and courage against the world’s highest and most dangerous mountains. In this lively and generously illustrated book, historians Maurice Isserman and Stewart Weaver present the first comprehensive history of Himalayan mou…
Climate Witness: Oral Environmental History and Community-Based Research—A Case Study from Trans-Himalayan India
On August 5, 2010, a violent cloudburst dumped fourteen inches of rain on Ladakh, a mountain desert region in the far north of India accustomed to getting just three inches of rain in a year. Five years later, flooding recurred on a wider scale, destroying buildings, roads, fields, and orchards all over Ladakh and provoking a wide-ranging discussion among locals about the causes of climate catastrophe. In this essay, we attend to those local voic…
The Infrastructure of Ice: Mapping the Fedchenko Glacier
In 1928, surveyors attached to a joint German-Soviet expedition to the Pamir Mountains produced the first detailed scientific map of the Fedchenko Glacier, the largest non-polar glacier in the world. More than a cartographic record, the map was an infrastructural act that translated the glacier’s crevassed mass into a legible form that could be circulated in atlases, mobilized in geopolitical claims, and embedded within Soviet projects of high-mo…
An Empire of Magnetism: Global Science and the British Magnetic Survey in the Age of Imperialism
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