Russia and the South Pacific, 1696-1840. Volume 2, Southern and Eastern Polynesia / Glynn Barratt.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Barratt, Glynn.

Series:

Barratt, Glynn. Russia and the South Pacific, 1696-1840 ; v. 2.

University of British Columbia Press Pacific maritime studies series ; 7

University of British Columbia Press Pacific maritime studies ; 7

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Soviet Union--History.

Soviet Union.

Soviet Union--History, Naval.

Polynesia--Discovery and exploration--Russian.

Polynesia.

Easter Island--Discovery and exploration--Russian.

Easter Island.

New Zealand--Discovery and exploration--Russian.

New Zealand.

Austral Islands (French Polynesia)--Discovery and exploration--Russian.

Austral Islands (French Polynesia).

Soviet Union--Relations--Polynesia.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xx, 302 pages) : illustrations.

Place of Publication:

Vancouver : University of British Columiba Press, 1988.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The second volume in Glynn Barratt's projected quartet on the naval, scientific, and social activities of the Imperial Russian Navy in the South Pacific, this book describes Russian activities in New Zealand, the Austral Islands and Easter Island. These widely scattered areas were all visited by warships of the Russian navy and by companies of highly educated and observant officers and "gentlemen of science" in the early 1800's. Barratt's annotated and careful translations of the visitors' eyewitness accounts provide fascinating, sometimes amusing, reading about the landfalls of the ships. The Russians' journals, reports, and drawings are collated with artefacts collected on the spot and with contemporaneous European data to produce a vivid picture of life and culture in these parts of the South Pacific in the early post-contact period. Although available in Soviet archives, many of the primary sources that Barratt has examined for this book have until now been almost completely ignored by Western scholars in spite of their importance in understanding the changes that took place in post-contact Oceania. These archival holdings, as described by the author, will be of major importance to those interested in the history and ethnohistory of southern and eastern Polynesia.

Contents:

Front Matter

Contents

Illustrations

Introduction

Easter Island

Preparations for a Voyage

The Russian Texts

The Scientific Legacy

New Zealand

Earlier Russian Knowledge of New Zealand, 1692-1814

The Russians in New Zealand

The Russian Ethnographic Record for Queen Charlotte Sound, 1820

Envoi: Scientific and Political Developments, 1828-32

The Austral Islands

The Bellingshausen Contacts, 1820

Reflections on the Ethnographic Evidence

Notes

Bibliography

Name Index

Place Index

Ship Index

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographies and indexes.

ISBN:

1-283-22619-7

9786613226198

0-7748-5684-X

OCLC:

243616498