Representations of Violence in the Eighteenth-Century Pacific

From Dampier to Cook
2024
ISBN: 978-3-031-62629-6
Verlag: Springer Nature Switzerland

Buch, Englisch, 224 Seiten, Format (B × H): 153 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 421 g

This book explores representations of the extensive violence that characterised British exploratory and colonising forays into the Pacific Ocean in the long eighteenth century, both between Europeans and Indigenous peoples and amongst Europeans themselves. It explores how navigators, alongside powerful commissioning bodies and editors, depicted violence in manuscripts, published texts, and iconographies, as the British negotiated competing colonial claims to Pacific spaces. In so doing, it identifies recurring and reproductive constructions of violence underpinning legitimizing imperial narratives

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Patel, Sandhya

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Kolonialgeschichte, Geschichte des Imperialismus
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Kultur- und Ideengeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Introduction.- 2. 'Bloody, mad, swaring, flashy fellows'. William Dampier and the Blueprinting of Violence.- 3. 'Destruction of poor naked savages'. Samuel Wallis in the Pacific.- 4. 'To treat them all with imaginable humanity'. Violence and James Cook’s Voyage.- 5. Afterword.

Über Autor(innen)

Sandhya Patel is Reader in Eighteenth-Century Studies at Université Paul-Valéry Montpellier 3, France.