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Title

  • Discovery and empire : the French in the South Seas

Other Title

  • French in the South Seas

Summary

  • "Discovery and Empire is a collection of essays originating out of a symposium that was held at the State Library of South Australia on 8 July 2009. The symposium formed one of the strands of the XVIIth Biennial Conference of the Australasian Association of European Historians (6-9 July 2009), the overall theme for which was 'Europe's Expansions and Contractions'."--Publisher's website.

Names

  • West-Sooby, John, editor.

Created / Published

  • Adelaide : University of Adelaide Press, [2013]

Contents

  • Introduction / John West-Sooby -- Note on the Second Frank Horner Lecture / John West-Sooby -- The globe encompassed : France and Pacific convergences in the Age of the Enlightenment / John Gascoigne -- The Abbâe Paulmier's Mâemoires and early French voyages in search of Terra Australias / Margaret Sankey -- The acquisitive eye? French observations in the Pacific from Bougainville to Baudin / Jean Fornasiero and John West-Sooby -- Discovering the savage senses : French and British explorers' encounters with Aboriginal people / Shino Konishi -- A case of peripheral vision : early Spanish and French perceptions of the British colony at Port Jackson / John West-Sooby -- New creatures made known : some animal histories of the Baudin Expedition / Stephanie Pfennigwerth -- "Primitive race", "pure race", "brown race", "every race" : Louis Freycinet's understanding of human difference in Oceania / Nicole Starbuck -- Imperial eyes on the Pacific prize : French visions of a perfect penal colony in the South Seas / Jacqueline Dutton.

Headings

  • -  Imperialism--History
  • -  France--Colonies--Oceania--History
  • -  France--Foreign relations--Oceania
  • -  Oceania--Discovery and exploration
  • -  Oceania--Foreign relations--France

Notes

  • -  Includes bibliographical references.
  • -  Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page, viewed July 8, 2021.

Medium

  • 1 online resource (xiii, 282 pages) : illustrations (some colour), maps

Call Number/Physical Location

  • DU50

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Library of Congress Control Number

  • 2021302853

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  • Unrestricted online access

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  • pdf

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Chicago citation style:

West-Sooby, John, editor. Discovery and empire: the French in the South Seas. [Adelaide: University of Adelaide Press, 2013] Pdf. https://aj.sunback.homes/item/2021302853/.

APA citation style:

West-Sooby, J., editor. (2013) Discovery and empire: the French in the South Seas. [Adelaide: University of Adelaide Press] [Pdf] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://aj.sunback.homes/item/2021302853/.

MLA citation style:

West-Sooby, John, editor. Discovery and empire: the French in the South Seas. [Adelaide: University of Adelaide Press, 2013] Pdf. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <aj.sunback.homes/item/2021302853/>.