03313nam 22005532 450 991014186370332120230621141309.0(CKB)2670000000415371(SSID)ssj0001326124(PQKBManifestationID)11859079(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001326124(PQKBWorkID)11517375(PQKB)10028580(UkCbUP)CR9781922064523(EXLCZ)9781922064523(WaSeSS)IndRDA00120849(EXLCZ)99267000000041537120140122d2013|||| uy| 0engur|||||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierDiscovery and empire the French in the South Seas /edited by John West-Sooby[electronic resource]Adelaide :The University of Adelaide Press,2013.1 online resource (xiii, 282 pages) digital, PDF file(s)Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 02 Oct 2015).Print version: 9781922064530 Includes bibliographical references.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.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 known parts of the globe, and particularly of the Pacific, which had for so long been the almost exclusive preserve of Spain.Discovery & EmpireImperialismHistoryFranceColoniesOceaniaHistoryOceaniaDiscovery and explorationFrenchFranceTerritories and possessionsHistoryFranceRelationsOceaniaOceaniaRelationsFranceOceaniaColonizationHistoryImperialismHistory.990West-Sooby JohnUniversity of Adelaide Press,UkCbUPUkCbUPBOOK9910141863703321Discovery and empire2214526UNINA