04323nam 2200709Ia 450 991081133300332120200520144314.01-283-22619-797866132261980-7748-5684-X10.1515/9780774856843(CKB)2430000000000379(OCoLC)243616498(CaPaEBR)ebrary10220729(SSID)ssj0000377874(PQKBManifestationID)11923889(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000377874(PQKBWorkID)10339472(PQKB)11343632(CaBNvSL)thg00602884(Au-PeEL)EBL3412500(CaPaEBR)ebr10227130(OCoLC)923445938(VaAlCD)20.500.12592/x172gd(schport)gibson_crkn/2009-12-01/3/406970(MiAaPQ)EBC3412500(MiAaPQ)EBC3255892(DE-B1597)661937(DE-B1597)9780774856843(EXLCZ)99243000000000037919890130d1988 uy 0engurcn|||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierRussia and the South Pacific, 1696-1840Volume 2Southern and Eastern Polynesia /Glynn BarrattVancouver University of British Columiba Press19881 online resource (xx, 302 pages) illustrationsUniversity of British Columbia Press Pacific maritime studies series ;7Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph0-7748-0305-3 Includes bibliographies and indexes.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 -- The Russian Texts -- Reflections on the Ethnographic Evidence -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Name Index -- Place Index -- Ship IndexThe 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.University of British Columbia Press Pacific maritime studies ;7Soviet UnionHistorySoviet UnionHistory, NavalPolynesiaDiscovery and explorationRussianEaster IslandDiscovery and explorationRussianNew ZealandDiscovery and explorationRussianAustral Islands (French Polynesia)Discovery and explorationRussianSoviet UnionRelationsPolynesia990Barratt Glynn1627271MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910811333003321Russia and the South Pacific, 1696-18404111551UNINA