Answer to Question #202323 in English for Areeba

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. Neither of these approaches is particularly well equipped to meet the requirements of a more contextual perspective, concerned with the wider contemporary significance of the ideas and practices of exploration. In recent years, historians have paid much more attention to the institutional, intellectual and social contexts in which projects of exploration were sustained, emphasizing in particular the relationship between exploration and empire. Whether explorers like Stanley are considered to be “progenitors” or merely “precursors’ of the new forms of imperialism developing during the late nineteenth century, their labors at the colonial frontier must be seen ii the wider context of changing relationships between Europe and the non‐European world.

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The name Henry Morton Stanley is popularly associated with a heroic age of discovery, when Europe marvelled at stories of exploration and conquest from all over the globe. Stanley, who discovered Livingstone at Ujiji on Lake Tanganyika in 1871 returned to Europe the following year in a blaze of publicity. The style in which his mission had bee accomplished secured him a place in the popular mythology of imperialism; his image, immortalized at Madame Tussaud's, was subsequently reproduced in countless advertisement selling everything from soap to Bovril. Stanley himself had an unrivalled gift for self-publicity; his experience as a journalist for the New York Herald accounts, in part, for the style of his best-known books. The history of exploration has until recently been dominated by two sorts of historical writing.