TY  - BOOK
AU  - Samson,Jane
TI  - British imperial strategies in the Pacific, 1750-1900
T2  - Pacific world
SN  - 0754619613
AV  - DU40 .B75 2003
U1  - 325.3410995 21
PY  - 2003///]
CY  - Aldershot, Hampshire, Burlington, VT
PB  - Ashgate
KW  - Imperialism
KW  - History
KW  - Great Britain
KW  - Colonies
KW  - Oceania
KW  - Foreign relations
KW  - Pacific Area
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Pt. 1; Exploration and Trade --; 1; Nootka Sound and the Beginnings of Britain's Imperialism of Free Trade; Alan Frost --; 2; The North West Company's 'Adventure to China'; Barry M. Gough --; 3; Myth, Science, and Experience in the British Construction of the Pacific; David Mackay --; 4; English Attitudes to Indigenous Peoples of the Pacific; Glyndwr Williams --; 5; Licensed Curiosity: Cook's Pacific Voyages; Nicholas Thomas --; Pt. 2; Colonies and Protectorates --; 6; The Creation of Imperial Space in the Pacific Northwest; Daniel Clayton --; 7; The Colonization of Vancouver Island, 1849-1858; Richard Somerset Mackie --; 8; The First Plans for Governing New South Wales, 1786-87; Alan Atkinson --; 9; 'The Idle and the Drunken Won't Do There': Poverty, the New Poor Law and Nineteenth-Century Government-assisted Emigration to Australia from the United Kingdom; Robin Haines --; 10; The Impact of European Settlement on the Indigenous Peoples of Australia, New Zealand, and British Columbia: Some Comparative Dimensions; Robin Fisher --; 11; Myth, Race, and Identity in New Zealand; James Belich --; 12; Towards Colonial Protectorates: The Case of the Gilbert and Ellice Islands; Doug Munro and Stewart Firth --; Pt. 3; Culture, Gender, and Environment --; 13; The Hegemony of Laughter: Purea's Theatre; Greg Dening --; 14; Missionary Interest in British Expansion in the South Pacific in the Nineteenth Century; Niel Gunson --; 15; Imperial Benevolence: The Royal Navy and the South Pacific Labour Trade 1867-1872; Jane Samson --; 16; Fear of Culture: British Regulation of Indian Marriage in Post-Indenture Fiji; John D. Kelly --; 17; Putting Down Sisters and Wives: Tongan Women and Colonization; Christine Ward Gailey --; 18; Pacific Ecology and British Imperialism, 1770-1970; J. R. McNeill
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