Discovery and empire : : the French in the South Seas / / edited by John West-Sooby.

• TeilnehmendeR: West-Sooby, John,; University of Adelaide Press,
• Place / Publishing House: Adelaide : : The University of Adelaide Press,, 2013.
• Year of Publication: 2013
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (xiii, 282 pages) :; digital, PDF file(s).
• Notes: Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 02 Oct 2015).

It was not until the eighteenth century that France began sending mariners to the southern oceans on a regular basis, and by that time a new maritime power had begun to emerge: Great Britain. Together, these two nations would play a decisive role in determining the configuration of these little know...

Table of Contents

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