Dead white men
By: Shane Rhodes
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: Coach House Books
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 125
ISBN-13: 9781552453452
Subjects: Imperialism; White Men; Discoveries in geography; History; Poetry; Explorers
Description: Juxtaposing the seemingly benign names of dead white men that litter our geographies with the details of their so-called discoveries and 'conquests, ' Dead White Men turns ideas of exploration, finding and keeping back on themselves. Engaging with European exploration and scientific texts from the 15th to the 19th centuries, this book reexamines histories many would like to forget.
Notes: Poems.

Transit, pages 81-125, on inverted pages.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 74-76).
Table of contents: title: What is history / a whitish story; title: This country of science my soul; title: Transit.