Pacific Empires

Alan Frost is professor of history at La Trobe University, Australia. Jane Samson is professor of history at the University of Alberta.

Part 1: Explorations, Imperial and Scientific Ventures To Make Discoveries of Countries Hitherto Unknown: The Admiralty and Pacific Exploration in the Eighteenth Century / Glyndwr Williams The Spanish Yoke: British Schemes to Revolutionize Spanish America 1739-1807 / Alan Frost Alexander Dalrymple and the Hydrographic Office / Andrew Cook An Empire of Science: The Voyage of HMS Herald 1845-1851 / Jane Samson John Lort Stokes and the New Zealand Survey 1848-1851 / RJB Knight A Warrant Officer in the Arctic: The Journal of George Ford 1850-1854 / William Barr Part 2: Encounters and Transformations The Hegemony of Laughter: Purea's Theatre / Greg Dening Vancouver's Vision of Native Peoples: The Northwest Coast and Hawai'i / Robin Fisher Whose Scourge? Smallpox Epidemics on the Northwest Coast / Christon I. Archer The Career of William Ellis: British Missions, the Pacific, and the American Connection / Andrew Porter Colonised Lives: The Native Wives and Daughters of Five Founding Families of Victoria / Sylvia Van Kirk Part 3: Reflections The Great Map of Mankind: The British Encounter with India / P.J. Marshall Exploring the Pacific, Exploring James Cook / David Mackay The Works of Glyndwr Williams Abbreviations Notes Index