Science, empire and the European exploration of the Pacific / edited by Tony Ballantyne.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Ballantyne, Tony, 1972-

Rosengarten Family Fund.

Series:

Collected studies

Pacific world ; v. 6.

The Pacific world ; v. 6

Variorum

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Europeans--Pacific Area--Historiography.

Europeans.

Science--Pacific Area--Historiography.

Science.

Science--Europe--Historiography.

Culture conflict--Pacific Area--Historiography.

Culture conflict.

Imperialism--Historiography.

Imperialism.

Science--Historiography.

Historiography.

Civilization.

Discoveries in geography.

Pacific Area--Discovery and exploration--European--Historiography.

Pacific Area.

Pacific Area--Civilization--Foreign influences--Historiography.

Pacific Area--Historiography.

Europe.

Physical Description:

xxxv, 367 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm.

Place of Publication:

Aldershot, Hants, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, [2004]

Contents:

Part 1. Visions of the Pacific. 'South Sea' to 'Pacific Ocean' / O.H.K. Spate

Mercator's southern continent : its origins, influence and gradual demise / W.A.R. Richardson

Shared vision : Herman Moll and his circle and the Great South Sea / Dennis Reinhartz

Part 2. The imperial sciences of exploration. Finding the way home : Spanish exploration of the round-trip route across the Pacific Ocean / Harry Kelsey

Eighteenth century science and the voyages of discovery / J.C. Beaglehole

A Royal Society appointment with Venus in 1769 : the voyage of Cook and Banks in the Endeavour in 1768-71 and its botanical results / William T. Stearn

The ship as a scientific instrument in the eighteenth century / Richard Sorrenson

Banks, Bligh and breadfruit / David MacKay

Scientific books and instruments for an eighteenth-century voyage around the world : Antonio Pineda and the Malaspina expedition / Barbara G. Beddall

Of fish and men : Spanish marine science during the lated eighteenth century / Iris H. Wilson Engstrand

The search for a sea passage from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific via North America's coast : on the history of a scientific competition / Alexei V. Postnikov

Part 3. Cultural contact, comparison and classification. (En)countering knowledge traditions : the story of Cook and Tupaia / David Turnbull

'Le Président des Terres Australes': Charles de Brosses and the French enlightenment beginnings of oceanic anthropology / Tom Ryan

Seamen and philosophers in the South Seas in the age of Captain Cook / Glyndwr Williams

Melanesians and Polynesians : ethnic typifications inside and outside anthropology / Nicholas Thomas

The 'oriental renaissance' in the Pacific : orientalism, language and ethnogenesis in the British Pacific / Tony Ballantyne

Minute particulars and the representation of South Pacific discovery / Jonathan Lamb.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Rosengarten Family Fund.

ISBN:

0754635627

OCLC:

52601409