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Empire, Barbarism, and Civilisation
- Captain Cook, William Hodges and the Return to the Pacific
Engelsk Hardback
Empire, Barbarism, and Civilisation
- Captain Cook, William Hodges and the Return to the Pacific
Engelsk Hardback

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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 fascinating journals of Cook and his companions, reveal as much about European cultures and historiography as about the peoples they visited. In this lively and original 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.
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Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
270
ISBN-13:
9780521881944
Indbinding:
Hardback
Udgave:
ISBN-10:
0521881943
Udg. Dato:
20 dec 2007
Længde:
20mm
Bredde:
252mm
Højde:
183mm
Forlag:
Cambridge University Press
Oplagsdato:
20 dec 2007
Forfatter(e):
Books from the same author
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