Table of Contents
Contents: General Editor's preface; Introduction; Exploration and trade: Nootka Sound and the beginning of Britain’s imperialism of free trade, Alan Frost; The North West Company’s 'Adventure to China', Barry M. Gough; Myth, science, and experience in the British construction of the Pacific, David Mackay; English attitudes to indigenous peoples of the Pacific, Glyndwr Williams; Licensed curiosity: Cook’s Pacific voyages, Nicholas Thomas; Colonies and Protectorates: The creation of imperial space in the Pacific Northwest, Daniel Clayton; The colonization of Vancouver Island, 1849-58, Richard Somerset Mackie; The first plans for governing New South Wales, 1786-87, Alan Atkinson; 'The idle and drunken won’t do there': poverty, the new Poor Law and 19th-century government-assisted emigration to Australia from the United Kingdom, Robin Haines; The impact of European settlement on the indigenous peoples of Australia, New Zealand, and British Columbia: some comparative dimensions, Robin Fisher; Myth, race, and identity in New Zealand, James Belich; Towards colonial protectorates: the case of the Gilbert and Ellice Islands, Doug Munro and Stewart Firth; Culture, gender and environment: The hegemony of laughter: Purea’s theatre, Greg Dening; Missionary interest in British expansion in the South Pacific in the 19th century, Niel Gunson; Imperial benevolence: the Royal Navy and the South Pacific labour trade, 1867-1872, Jane Samson; Fear of culture: British regulation of Indian marriage in post-indenture Fiji, John D. Kelly; Putting down sisters and wives: Tongan women and colonization, Christine Ward Gailey; Pacific ecology and British imperialism, 1770-1970, J.R. McNeill; Index.