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The exploration of the Pacific in the eighteenth century by western Europeans has an enduring fascination for both specialists and a wider public. Within this field, Cook's voyages have a particular appeal: they include exciting elements of danger, scientific investigation, encounters between different cultures. The essays in this volume, the result of a conference held in 1997 by the National Maritime Museum and the Royal Society, take as their point of departure Cook's first voyage in the Endeavour (1768-71); they re-evaluate its political and social context, look at the expectations and outcomes of the event, and focus on the scientific and cultural issues emerging from this and subsequent Pacific voyages.
| List of Illustrations | |
| Foreword | |
| Acknowledgements | |
| Contributors | |
| Abbreviations | |
| Introduction | |
| Strategy | |
| The Endeavour Voyage: A Coincidence of Motives | p. 3 |
| Shaking off the Spanish Yoke: British Schemes to Revolutionise America, 1739-1807 | p. 19 |
| Joseph Banks and the Expansion of Empire | p. 39 |
| Methodology and Selectivity | |
| From the South Seas to the Sun: The Astronomy of Cook's Voyages | p. 55 |
| Malaspina and the Shrinking Spanish Lake | p. 73 |
| The Politics and Pragmatics of Seaborne Plant Transportation, 1769-1805 | p. 81 |
| Perceptions | |
| Lord Sandwich's Collection of Polynesian Artefacts | p. 103 |
| Cook and Tupaia, a Tale of Cartographic Meconnaissance? | p. 117 |
| Note on the Drawings by an Unknown Artist from the Voyage of HMS Endeavour | p. 133 |
| The Point Venus 'Scene' | p. 135 |
| Transformations | |
| Translating Cultures: William Ellis and Missionary Writing | p. 147 |
| Tails of Wonder: Constructions of the Kangaroo in Late Eighteenth-Century Scientific Discourse | p. 163 |
| Unruly Subjects: Sexuality, Science and Discipline in Eighteenth-Century Pacific Exploration | p. 183 |
| Cook and the New Anthropology | p. 199 |
| Bibliography | p. 207 |
| Index | p. 220 |
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ISBN: 9780851157214
ISBN-10: 0851157211
Audience:
Professional
Format:
Hardcover
Language:
English
Number Of Pages: 192
Published: 1st January 1999
Dimensions (cm): 23.4 x 15.6
x 2.4
Weight (kg): 0.699
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