Discovery and empire the French in the South Seas
It was not until the eighteenth century that France began sending mariners to the southern oceans on a regular basis, and by that time a new maritime power had begun to emerge: Great Britain. Together, these two nations would play a decisive role in determining the configuration of these little know...
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Adelaide :
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2013.
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| Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009430348506719 |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction / John West-Sooby
- Note on the Second Frank Horner Lecture / John West-Sooby
- 1. The globe encompassed : France and Pacific convergences in the Age of the Enlightenment / John Gascoigne
- 2. The Abbé Paulmier's Mémoires and early French voyages in search of Terra Australias / Margaret Sankey
- 3. The acquisitive eye? French observations in the Pacific from Bougainville to Baudin / Jean Fornasiero and John West-Sooby
- 4. Discovering the savage senses : French and British explorers' encounters with Aboriginal people / Shino Konishi
- 5. A case of peripheral vision : early Spanish and French perceptions of the British colony at Port Jackson / John West-Sooby
- 6. New creatures made known : some animal histories of the Baudin Expedition / Stephanie Pfennigwerth
- 7. "Primitive race", "pure race", "brown race", "every race" : Louis Freycinet's understanding of human difference in Oceania / Nicole Starbuck
- 8. Imperial eyes on the Pacific prize : French visions of a perfect penal colony in the South Seas / Jacqueline Dutton.
