Russia and the South Pacific, 1696-1840 . Volume 2 Southern and Eastern Polynesia / / Glynn Barratt

• Autore: Barratt Glynn
• Pubblicazione: Vancouver, : University of British Columiba Press, 1988
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (xx, 302 pages) : illustrations
• Disciplina: 990
• Soggetto geografico: Soviet Union History; Soviet Union History, Naval; Polynesia Discovery and exploration Russian; Easter Island Discovery and exploration Russian; New Zealand Discovery and exploration Russian; Austral Islands (French Polynesia) Discovery and exploration Russian; Soviet Union Relations Polynesia
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographies and indexes.
• Nota di contenuto: 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 Index
• Sommario/riassunto: The 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Russia and the South Pacific, 1696-1840
• ISBN: 1-283-22619-7; 9786613226198; 0-7748-5684-X
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910811333003321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: University of British Columbia Press Pacific maritime studies ; ; 7