British Imperial Strategies in the Pacific, 1750-1900
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Botany Bay
Britain's trans-Pacific empire
British imperial strategies
British imperialism
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Chiefly Women
Colonial Administrations
colonial governance Pacific
Columbia River
comparative colonial legacies analysis
East Indies
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Evan Nepean
Fiji Indians
Fur Trade
Hudson's Bay Company
Hudson’s Bay Company
imperial environmental history
Indian Custom
indigenous cultural impact
Indigenous Fijians
London Missionary Society
Melanesian Mission
missionary encounters Oceania
Nootka Sound
Nootka Sound Crisis
North West Company
Northwest Coast
Oregon Territory
Pacific region
Pai Marire
Pitt Administration
Sea Otter
Secretary Of State
settler colonialism studies
Spanish dominion
transnational migration Pacific
Tui Tonga
Wakefield System
Young Men
Product details
- ISBN 9780754619611
- Weight: 901g
- Dimensions: 174 x 246mm
- Publication Date: 21 Feb 2003
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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The focus of this volume is Britain's trans-Pacific empire. This began with haphazard challenges to Spanish dominion, but by the end of the 18th century, the British had established a colony in Australia and had gone to the brink of war with Spain to establish trading rights in the north Pacific. These rights led to formal colonies in Vancouver Island and British Columbia, when Britain sought to maintain a north Pacific presence despite American expansionism. In the later 19th century the international ’scramble for the Pacific’ resulted in new British colonies and protectorates in the Pacific islands. The result was a complex imperial presence, created from a variety of motives and circumstances. The essays selected here take account of the wide range of economic, political and cultural factors which prompted British expansion, creating tension in Britain's imperial identity in the Pacific, and leaving Pacific peoples with a complicated and challenging legacy. Along with the important new introduction, they provide a basis for the reassessment of British imperialism in the Pacific region.
Jane Samson, University of Alberta, Canada Alan Frost, Barry M. Gough, David Mackay, Glyndwr Williams, Nicholas Thomas, Daniel Clayton, Richard Somerset Mackie, Alan Atkinson, Robin Haines, Doug Munro, Stewart Firth, Greg Dening, Niel Gunson, Jane Samson, John D. Kelly, Christine Ward Gailey, J.R. McNeill.
