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Beskrivning
This book explores representations of the extensive violence that characterised British exploratory and colonising forays into the Pacific Ocean in the long eighteenth century, both between Europeans and Indigenous peoples and amongst Europeans themselves.
Sandhya Patel is Reader in Eighteenth-Century Studies at Université Paul-Valéry Montpellier 3, France.
Innehållsförteckning
1. Introduction.- 2. 'Bloody, mad, swaring, flashy fellows'. William Dampier and the Blueprinting of Violence.- 3. 'Destruction of poor naked savages'. Samuel Wallis in the Pacific.- 4. 'To treat them all with imaginable humanity'. Violence and James Cook’s Endeavour Voyage.- 5. Afterword.