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Book Review: Equal subjects, unequal rights: indigenous peoples in British settler colonies, 1830s-1910

Book Review: Equal subjects, unequal rights: indigenous peoples in British settler colonies,... reviews in brief been a driving idea in the West since antiquity. Cosgrove argues that seemingly unpre- cedented aspects of contemporary globalism – ‘designer T-shirts worn by New Guinea hill people, Hindu temples in Scottish suburbs’ – in fact reflect recurring cultural pat- terns with pedigrees dating back at least to ancient Greece and Rome. Apollo’s eye reveals the complexity of familiar practices – in particular, ‘conceiving and representing the earth as a unitary, regular body of spherical form’ – by tracing them historically. The title refers to the Apollonian gaze, a way of envisioning the terrestrial sphere by rising literally or imaginatively above its surface. Cosgrove neglects the terms earth and world in favour of globe because of the latter’s formal abstraction and consequent openness to imaginative association. The nine chapters present a chronology of shifting imaginaries of the globe: imperial and poetic, classical, Christian, oceanic, visionary, emblematic, enlightened, modern and virtual. Apollo’s eye will appeal to a broad range of readers, in part because its subject is so keenly relevant to current world events. Cosgrove’s erudition is as impressive as ever, and his work draws richly on scholarship of the past two decades. The text is expansive http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Cultural Geographies SAGE

Book Review: Equal subjects, unequal rights: indigenous peoples in British settler colonies, 1830s-1910

Lester, Alan
Cultural Geographies , Volume 11 (4): 2 – Oct 1, 2004
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reviews in brief been a driving idea in the West since antiquity. Cosgrove argues that seemingly unpre- cedented aspects of contemporary globalism – ‘designer T-shirts worn by New Guinea hill people, Hindu temples in Scottish suburbs’ – in fact reflect recurring cultural pat- terns with pedigrees dating back at least to ancient Greece and Rome. Apollo’s eye reveals the complexity of familiar practices – in particular, ‘conceiving and representing the earth as a unitary, regular body of spherical form’ – by tracing them historically. The title refers to the Apollonian gaze, a way of envisioning the terrestrial sphere by rising literally or imaginatively above its surface. Cosgrove neglects the terms earth and world in favour of globe because of the latter’s formal abstraction and consequent openness to imaginative association. The nine chapters present a chronology of shifting imaginaries of the globe: imperial and poetic, classical, Christian, oceanic, visionary, emblematic, enlightened, modern and virtual. Apollo’s eye will appeal to a broad range of readers, in part because its subject is so keenly relevant to current world events. Cosgrove’s erudition is as impressive as ever, and his work draws richly on scholarship of the past two decades. The text is expansive

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