Originally from Canada, Brian Richardson earned doctorates in political science and philosophy from the University of Hawai'i at Mānoa. His fields of research include eighteenth-century European exploration in the Pacific, European political philosophy, and information systems in higher education. He is the author of Longitude and Empire: How Captain Cook's Voyages Changed the World. Originally from Canada, Brian Richardson earned doctorates in political science and philosophy from the University of Hawai'i at Mānoa. His fields of research include eighteenth-century European exploration in the Pacific, European political philosophy, and information systems in higher education. He is the author of Longitude and Empire: How Captain Cook's Voyages Changed the World.

Originally from Canada, Brian Richardson earned doctorates in political science and philosophy from the University of Hawai'i at Mānoa. His fields of research include eighteenth-century European exploration in the Pacific, European political philosophy, and information systems in higher education. He is the author of Longitude and Empire: How Captain Cook's Voyages Changed the World. Originally from Canada, Brian Richardson earned doctorates in political science and philosophy from the University of Hawai'i at Mānoa. His fields of research include eighteenth-century European exploration in the Pacific, European political philosophy, and information systems in higher education. He is the author of Longitude and Empire: How Captain Cook's Voyages Changed the World.