Buccaneers, Explorers, and Settlers: British Enterprise and Encounters in the Pacific, 1670-1800
Buccaneers, Explorers and Settlers studies how during 'the long 18th century' British incursions into the Pacific transformed Europe's knowledge of that great ocean. Buccaneers devastated Spanish settlements and shipping in the South Sea, and the accounts by Dampier and his companions of their exploits became best-sellers. Anson's circumnavigation carried on the tradition of commerce-raiding, but it represented the beginnings of a more official interest in the Pacific and its resources. Later...
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In 17 articles reproduced from their publication in anthologies and journals from 1961 to 2003, Williams shows how British incursions into the Pacific during the long 18th century transformed Europe's knowledge of the great ocean and ended Spanish exclusive claim to the Pacific and its lands. Among the topics are the South Seas in the English consciousness before 1750, George Anson's best-seller Voyage Round the World, the Admiralty and the Pacific exploration in the 18th century, reactions to the Australian Aborigines on Cook's voyage, seamen and philosophers in the South Seas in the age of Captain Cook, an 18th-century Spanish investigation into the apocryphal voyage of Admiral Fonte, and the theoretical geography of northwestern American from Cook to Vancouver. Annotation ©2005 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
I'The inexhaustible fountain of gold' : English projects and ventures in the South Seas, 1670-1750IIBuccaneers, castaways, and satirists : the South Seas in the English consciousness before 1750IIIAnson at Canton, 1743 : 'a little secret history'IVGeorge Anson's Voyage Round the World : the making of a best-sellerVThe beginnings of Britain's exploration of the Pacific Ocean in the eighteenth-century (with Alan Frost)VI'To make discoveries of countries hitherto unknown' : the admiralty and Pacific exploration in the eighteenth centuryVIIThe endeavour voyage : a coincidence of motivesVIIITupaia : polynesian warrior, navigator, high priest - and artistIX'Far more happier than we Europeans' : reactions to the Australian aborigines on Cook's voyageXThe English and aborigines : first contactsXIThe first fleet and after : expectation and realityXIISeamen and philosophers in the South Seas in the age of Captain CookXIIIExplorers and geographers : an uneasy alliance in the eighteenth-century exploration of the PacificXIVAn eighteenth-century Spanish investigation into the apocryphal voyage of Admiral FonteXVMyth and reality : James Cook and the theoretical geography of Northwest AmericaXVIMyth and reality : the theoretical geography of Northwest America from Cook to VancouverXVII'The common center of we discoverers' : Sir Joseph Banks, exploration and empire in the late eighteenth century
