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Category : Voyages and travels
Languages : en
Pages : 68
Book Description
An Authentic Account of Commodore Anson's Expedition
Author: Buccaneers, Explorers and Settlers
Author: Glyndwr WilliamsPublisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1000938425
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 284
Book Description
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 in the 18th century the hopes of speculative geographers that unknown continents and sea-passages existed in the Pacific prompted a series of expeditions by Cook and his contemporaries. New peoples were discovered as well as new lands, and the voyages led to changing perceptions of their lifestyles. Exploration was followed by trade and settlement in which Cook's associates such as Banks played a leading part. Before the end of the century there were British settlements in New South Wales, Nootka Sound had become a centre of international dispute, and across the Pacific traders, whalers and missionaries were following the tracks of the explorers.
Bibliotheca Americana
Author: John Russell SmithPublisher:
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Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 232
Book Description
A Dictionary of Books Relating to America
Author: Joseph SabinPublisher:
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Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 600
Book Description
Bibliotheca Americana
Author: Joseph SabinPublisher:
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Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 596
Book Description
Britain and the China Trade 1635-1842
Author: Patrick J. N. TuckPublisher: Taylor & Francis US
ISBN: 9780415190046
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 360
Book Description
Aberdeen University Studies
Author: Catalogue of Pamphlets in the King
Author: University of Aberdeen. LibraryPublisher:
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Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 720
Book Description
American Book Prices Current
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Category : Autographs
Languages : en
Pages : 1104
Book Description
A record of literary properties sold at auction in the United States.
Difference and Disease
Author: Suman SethPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108304850
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 341
Book Description
Before the nineteenth century, travellers who left Britain for the Americas, West Africa, India and elsewhere encountered a medical conundrum: why did they fall ill when they arrived, and why - if they recovered - did they never become so ill again? The widely accepted answer was that the newcomers needed to become 'seasoned to the climate'. Suman Seth explores forms of eighteenth-century medical knowledge, including conceptions of seasoning, showing how geographical location was essential to this knowledge and helped to define relationships between Britain and her far-flung colonies. In this period, debates raged between medical practitioners over whether diseases changed in different climes. Different diseases were deemed characteristic of different races and genders, and medical practitioners were thus deeply involved in contestations over race and the legitimacy of the abolitionist cause. In this innovative and engaging history, Seth offers dramatically new ways to understand the mutual shaping of medicine, race, and empire.