Description |
xx, 249 pages, 48 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 26 cm |
Contents |
1. The great distinction -- 2. Curiosity and desire -- 3. Curiously marked -- 4. Terms of trade in Tonga and Vanuatu -- 5. New Zealand colonial romance -- 6. Ornament and use in London -- Epilogue: The Effects of Pence and The Consequences of War in 1794-1795 |
Summary |
"The artist William Hodges accompanied Captain Cook on his second voyage to the South Pacific in 1772-5. His extraordinarily vivid images, read against the journals of Cook and his companions, reveal as much about European cultures and historiography as about the peoples they visited. In this book, Harriet Guest discusses Hodges's dramatic landscapes and portraits alongside written accounts of the voyages and in the context of the theories of civilisation which shaped European perceptions - theories drawn from the works of philosophers of the Scottish enlightenment such as Adam Smith and John Millar. She argues that the voyagers resorted to diverse or incompatible models of progress in successive encounters with different groups of islanders, and shows how these models also structured metropolitan views of the voyagers and of Hodges's work. This fully illustrated study offers a fresh perspective on eighteenth-century representations of gender, colonialism and exploration."--BOOK JACKET |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages [230]-244) and index |
Subject |
Hodges, William, 1744-1797.
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Cook, James, 1728-1779 -- Diaries.
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Travel in literature -- History -- 18th century.
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SUBJECT |
Oceania http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85093910 -- In art http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2002011412 -- History -- 18th century.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2002006124
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Oceania -- Description and travel http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85093911 -- Early works to 1800.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh99001366
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Oceania http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85093910 -- Foreign public opinion, European -- History -- 18th century
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Genre/Form |
Diaries.
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LC no. |
2008295218 |
ISBN |
9780521881944 (hbk.) |
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0521881943 (hbk.) |
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