Article ID: CBB052319694

Voyages of maintenance: Exploration, infrastructure, and modernity on the Krusenstern–Lisianskii circumnavigation between Russia and Japan from 1803 to 1806 (2023)

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Against the common association of voyages of exploration with discovery and the arrival of modernity, this essay argues that maintenance and repair were essential to the success of such voyages and that maintenance and innovation are best seen as fundamentally integrated. Using the Russian circumnavigatory voyage of Adam von Krusenstern and Urey Lisianskii in 1803–7 as a case study, the essay explores the diverse forms and roles of infrastructure and repair work in enabling a voyage of exploration, and reveals the tensions and debates that considerations of maintenance evoked among ships’ officers, crews, and the peoples they encountered.

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Authors & Contributors
Adler, Antony
Bekasova, Alexandra V.
Carney, Peter
Hicks, Robert D.
Igler, David
Kempe, Michael
Journals
History of Science
Journal of Global History
Australian Historical Studies
British Journal for the History of Science
Journal for Maritime Research: Britian, the Sea and Global History
Journal of the History of Biology
Publishers
McGill-Queen's University Press
Brill
Mariner Books
Naval Institute Press
Oxford University Press
UBC Press
Concepts
Ships and shipbuilding
Travel; exploration
Sea travel
Science and literature
Colonialism
Imperialism
People
Cook, James
Flinders, Matthew
Franklin, John
Hakluyt, Richard
Mackenzie, Alexander
Rumianstev, Nikolai Petrovich
Time Periods
19th century
18th century
17th century
16th century
20th century
20th century, early
Places
Great Britain
Canada
China
Europe
New Zealand
Netherlands
Institutions
Dutch East India Company
Great Britain. Royal Navy
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