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Anson's Voyage
Author_Glyndwr Williams
Baffin Bay
Benjamin Robins
Botany Bay
British imperial expansion
British South Seas exploration scholarship
Cape Flattery
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colonial trade networks
Cook's Instructions
East Indies
eighteenth-century navigation
Endeavour Voyage
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Foreign Minister
George III
Great Slave Lake
historical geography Pacific
Indies
indigenous encounters Pacific
James Colnett
James King
Juan De Fuca
North West Coast
North West Passage
Pacific maritime history
Queen Charlotte Sound
South Sea
Spanish America
Terra Australis Incognita
Van Diemen's Land
Young Man
Product details
- ISBN 9780860789673
- Weight: 589g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 01 Jul 2005
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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Buccaneers, Explorers and Settlers studies how during 'the long 18th century' British incursions into the Pacific transformed Europe's knowledge of that great ocean. Buccaneers devastated Spanish settlements and shipping in the South Sea, and the accounts by Dampier and his companions of their exploits became best-sellers. Anson's circumnavigation carried on the tradition of commerce-raiding, but it represented the beginnings of a more official interest in the Pacific and its resources. Later in the 18th century the hopes of speculative geographers that unknown continents and sea-passages existed in the Pacific prompted a series of expeditions by Cook and his contemporaries. New peoples were discovered as well as new lands, and the voyages led to changing perceptions of their lifestyles. Exploration was followed by trade and settlement in which Cook's associates such as Banks played a leading part. Before the end of the century there were British settlements in New South Wales, Nootka Sound had become a centre of international dispute, and across the Pacific traders, whalers and missionaries were following the tracks of the explorers.
Glyndwr Williams is Emeritus Professor of History at Queen Mary University of London.
