British imperial strategies in the Pacific, 1750-1900 / edited by Jane Samson
- Bib ID:
- 831137
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- Book
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- Description:
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- Aldershot, Great Britain ; Burlington, VT. : Ashgate, c2003
- xxxv, 370 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
- ISBN:
- 0754619613
- Series:
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- Pacific world ; v. 8.
- Pacific world.
- Full contents:
-
- Machine derived contents note: Introduction xv
- PART ONE - EXPLORATION AND TRADE
- 1 Nootka Sound and the Beginnings of Britain's Imperialism of Free
- Trade
- Alan Frost 1
- 2 The North West Company's 'Adventure to China'
- Barry M. Gough 29
- 3 Myth, Science, and Experience in the British Construction of the
- Pacific
- David Mackay 53
- 4 English Attitudes to Indigenous Peoples of the Pacific
- Glyndwr Williams 67
- 5 Licensed Curiosity: Cook's Pacific Voyages
- Nicholas Thomas 77
- PART TWO - COLONIES AND PROTECTORATES
- 6 The Creation of Imperial Space in the Pacific Northwest
- Daniel Clayton 101
- 7 The Colonization of Vancouver Island, 1849-1858
- Richard Somerset Mackie 125
- 8 The First Plans for Governing New South Wales, 1786-87
- Alan Atkinson 163
- 9 'The Idle and the Drunken Won't Do There': Poverty, the New Poor
- Law and Nineteenth-Century Government-assisted Emigration to
- Australia from the United Kingdom
- Robin Haines 183
- 10 The Impact of European Settlement on the Indigenous Peoples of
- Australia, New Zealand, and British Columbia: Some Comparative
- Dimensions
- Robin Fisher 205
- 11 Myth, Race, and Identity in New Zealand
- James Belich 219
- 12 Towards Colonial Protectorates: The Case of the Gilbert and Ellice
- Islands
- Doug Munro and Stewart Firth 233
- PART THREE - CULTURE, GENDER, AND ENVIRONMENT
- 13 The Hegemony of Laughter: Purea's Theatre
- Greg Dening 243
- 14 Missionary Interest in British Expansion in the South Pacific in the
- Nineteenth Century
- Niel Gunson 265
- 15 Imperial Benevolence: The Royal Navy and the South Pacific
- Labour Trade 1867-1872
- Jane Samson 283
- 16 Fear of Culture: British Regulation of Indian Marriage in Post-
- Indenture Fiji
- John D. Kelly 299
- 17 Putting Down Sisters and Wives: Tongan Women and Colonization
- Christine Ward Galley 315
- 18 Pacific Ecology and British Imperialism, 1770-1970
- J.R. McNeill 349.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Subject:
- Other authors/contributors:
- Samson, Jane, 1962-
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