Science and exploration in the Pacific : European voyages to the southern oceans in the eighteenth c...
Science and exploration in the Pacific : European voyages to the southern oceans in the eighteenth c...
Science and exploration in the Pacific : European voyages to the southern oceans in the eighteenth century / edited by Margarette Lincoln.
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Woodbridge, Suffolk, UK ; Rochester, NY, USA : Boydell Press in association with the National Maritime Museum, 1998.
Date
1998.
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910.45/236
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English
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xix, 228 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cm.
Contents
Foreword / Richard Ormond -- Pt. I. Strategy. The Endeavour Voyage: A Coincidence of Motives / Glyndwr Williams. Shaking off the Spanish Yoke: British Schemes to Revolutionise America, 1739-1807 / Alan Frost. Joseph Banks and the Expansion of Empire / John Gascoigne -- Pt. II. Methodology and Select...
Tails of Wonder: Constructions of the Kangaroo in Late Eighteenth-Century Scientific Discourse / Markman Ellis. Unruly Subjects: Sexuality, Science and Discipline in Eighteenth-Century Pacific Exploration / Neil Hegarty. Cook and the New Anthropology / Jackie Huggins.
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Publisher
Woodbridge, Suffolk, UK ; Rochester, NY, USA : Boydell Press in association with the National Maritime Museum, 1998.
Place of Publication
England
Date Published
1998.
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Science and exploration in the Pacific : European voyages to the southern oceans in the eighteenth century / edited by Margarette Lincoln.
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Essays, most adapted from papers given at a conference held 1997 by the National Maritime Museum in association with the Royal Society, to mark the voyage to and around Britain of Endeavour II, the Australian replica of Cook's ship Endeavour.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 207-219) and index.
Mitchell Library copy: Jacket filed.
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910.45/236
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0851157211 :
9780851157214 (hardback : alk. paper)
0851157211 (hardback : alk. paper)
058518223X (electronic bk.)
9780851158365 (pbk.)
0851158366 (pbk.)
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910.45
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991010071459702626
