State & Local, Expeditions & Discoveries, Essays, Pacific Area, Pacific Ocean 

"A new interest in European maritime exploration was aroused with the publication of the first volume of J.C. Beagle hole's edition of The Journals of Captain James Cook in 1955. In the forty-odd years since then, our knowledge of this exploration -- and of the imperialism of which it was a part -- has expanded enormously.

We now recognize that the scientific endeavours, once seen as disinterested manifestations of the Enlightenment, actually had both strategic and commercial implications. And today much greater emphasis is given to the meanings of early encounters for both the Natives of the Pacific islands and the Strangers from the European world.

Glyndwr Williams has played a leading role in the development of these new insights. Always at the forefront of new historiographical developments, his interests range from North America to the Pacific to Asia, encompassing historical, geographical, cartographical, ethnographic, artistic, and literary perspectives.

In addition to his own mature overview of British maritime exploration, Pacific Empires offers stimulating contributions by a number of Williams' colleagues, all authorities in their respective fields. They cover such themes as science and expansion, and culture contact in North American and the Pacific, and they reflect on the nature of history and historiography. Glyndwr Williams has profoundly influenced the development of new understandings of European exploration and imperialism. Pacific Empires is a fitting tribute to his achievements and to the esteem in which his colleagues hold him. It is also a timely examination of historical understandings at the end of the twentieth century" - AbeBooks 

Content:

'To make discoveries of countries hitherto unknown' : the Admiralty and Pacific exploration in the eighteenth century / Glyndwr Williams -- The Spanish yoke : British schemes to revolutionise Spanish America, 1739-1807 / Alan Frost -- Alexander Dalrymple and the Hydrographic office / Andrew Cook -- An empire of science : the voyage of HMS Herald, 1845-1851 / Jane Samson -- John Lort Stokes and the New Zealand survey, 1848-1851 / R.J.B. Knight -- A warrant officer in the arctic : the journal of George Ford, 1850-1854 / William Barr -- The hegemony of laughter : Purea's theatre / Greg Dening -- Vancouver's vision of native peoples : the northwest coast and Hawai'i / Robin Fisher -- Whose scourge? : smallpox epidemics on the northwest coast / Christon I. Archer -- The career of William Ellis : British missions, the Pacific, and the American connection / Andrew Porter -- Colonised lives : the native wives and daughters of five founding families of Victoria / Sylvia Van Kirk -- The great map of mankind : the British encounter with India / P.J. Marshall -- Exploring the Pacific, exploring James Cook / David Mackay. 

Includes bibliographical references and index.
"The works of Glyndwr Williams"-Page 271-275
Categorized by editor, then date.