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

Publication Info.	Adelaide : University of Adelaide Press, [2013]
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Description	1 online resource (1 electronic resource (xiii, 282 pages)) : illustrations (some colour), maps
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Note	This book is available as a free fully-searchable PDF from www.adelaide.edu.au/press.
Contents	Introduction / John West-Sooby -- Note on the Second Frank Horner Lecture / John West-Sooby -- The Globe Encompassed: France and Pacific Convergences in the Age of the Enlightenment / John Gascoigne -- The Abbé Paulmier's Mémoires and Early French Voyages in Search of Terra Australis / Margaret Sankey -- The Acquisitive Eye? French Observations in the Pacific from Bougainville to Baudin / Jean Fornasiero and John West-Sooby -- Discovering the Savage Senses: French and British Explorers' Encounters with Aboriginal People / Shino Konishi -- A Case of Peripheral Vision: Early Spanish and French Perceptions of the British Colony at Port Jackson / John West-Sooby -- New Creatures Made Known: Some Animal Histories of the Baudin Expedition / Stephanie Pfennigwerth -- Primitive race", "pure race", "brown race", "every race": Louis Freycinet's Understanding of Human Difference in Oceania / Nicole Starbuck -- Imperial Eyes on the Pacific Prize: French Visions of a Perfect Penal Colony in the South Seas / Jacqueline Dutton.
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references.
Summary	"Discovery and Empire is a collection of essays originating out of a symposium that was held at the State Library of South Australia on 8 July 2009. The symposium formed one of the strands of the XVIIth Biennial Conference of the Australasian Association of European Historians (6-9 July 2009), the overall theme for which was 'Europe's Expansions and Contractions'."--Publisher's website.
Subject	Imperialism -- History.
	Oceania -- Discovery and exploration -- French.
	France -- Colonies -- Oceania -- History.
	France -- Territories and possessions -- History.
	France -- Relations -- Oceania.
	Oceania -- Relations -- France.
	Oceania -- Colonization -- History.
	Colonization. (OCoLC)fst00868483
	Discovery and exploration, French. (OCoLC)fst01352765
	French colonies. (OCoLC)fst01930852
	French territories and possessions. (OCoLC)fst01353139
	Imperialism. (OCoLC)fst00968126
	International relations. (OCoLC)fst00977053
	France. (OCoLC)fst01204289
	Oceania. (OCoLC)fst01242982
	HISTORY / Expeditions & Discoveries
Genre/Form	Electronic books.
	History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
	Electronic books.
Added Author	West-Sooby, John, editor.
ISBN	9781922064523 (electronic bk.)
	1922064521 (electronic bk.)
	9781922064530 (hardback)

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