Descript |
xiv, 385 p. : ill. ; 25 cm. |
Contents |
Mapping an exotic world : the global project of Dutch geography, circa 1700 / Benjamin Schmidt -- Tupaia : Polynesian warrior, navigator, high priest-- and artist / Glyndwr Williams -- The Caribbean Islands in Atlantic context, circa 1500-1800 / Philip D. Morgan -- Bringing India to hand : mapping an empire, denying space / Matthew H. Edney -- Concealing the bounds : imagining the British nation through China / Robert Batchelor -- The global parasol : accessorizing the four corners of the world / Joseph Roach -- Oceans and floods : fables of global perspective / Laura Brown -- Proxies of power : woman in the colonial archive / Betty Joseph -- The narrative of Elizabeth Marsh : barbary, sex, and power / Linda Colley -- The lama and the Scotsman : George Bogle in Bhutan and Tibet, 1774-1775 / Kate Teltscher -- The English garden conversation piece in India / Beth Fowkes Tobin -- Black, yellow, and white on St. Vincent : Moreau de Jonnès's Carib ethnography / Peter Hulme -- Marketing mulatresses in the paintings and prints of Agostino Brunias / Kay Dian Kriz -- Archipelagic encounters : war, race, and labor in American-Caribbean waters / Nicholas Rogers -- Questioning the identity of Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavus Vassa, the African / Vincent Carretta -- The point Venus "Scene," Tahiti, 14 May 1769 / Neil Rennie -- Island transactions : encounter and disease in the South Pacific / Rod Edmond -- George Berkeley the Islander : some reflections on utopia, race, and tar-water / Carole Fabricant -- Inhuming empire : islands as colonial nurseries and graves / Jill Casid -- South Seas trade and the character of captains / Anna Neil -- Voyaging the past, present, and future : historical reenactments on HM Bark Endeavor and the voyaging canoe Hokule'a in the sea of islands / Greg Dening. |
ISBN |
0801882699 (pbk.) |
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9780801882692 (pbk.) |
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9780801868658 |
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0801868653 |
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0801872243 |
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