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Author : Annick Foucrier
Release : 2005
Genre : France
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Book Rating : 572/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis The French and the Pacific World, 17th-19th Centuries by : Annick Foucrier
Download or read book The French and the Pacific World, 17th-19th Centuries written by Annick Foucrier. This book was released on 2005. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Annick Foucrier
Release : 2020-11-30
Genre : History
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Book Rating : 362/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis The French and the Pacific World, 17th–19th Centuries by : Annick Foucrier
Download or read book The French and the Pacific World, 17th–19th Centuries written by Annick Foucrier. This book was released on 2020-11-30. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The French in the Pacific World Annick Foucrier has brought together an important set of studies on the French presence in the Pacific up to the start of the 20th century. The volume opens with a section on the context of the French expansion, including its rivalries with other European powers. Following studies treat patterns of trade and exchange, and settlement and migration, then look at the French image of and reaction to the worlds round the Pacific and the people of the islands, covering the period from the voyages of exploration to the era of colonization.
Author : Jane Samson
Release : 2021-02-28
Genre : History
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Book Synopsis British Imperial Strategies in the Pacific, 1750-1900 by : Jane Samson
Download or read book British Imperial Strategies in the Pacific, 1750-1900 written by Jane Samson. This book was released on 2021-02-28. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Author : Hartmut Berghoff
Release : 2018-11-16
Genre : History
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Book Rating : 296/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Explorations and Entanglements by : Hartmut Berghoff
Download or read book Explorations and Entanglements written by Hartmut Berghoff. This book was released on 2018-11-16. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Traditionally, Germany has been considered a minor player in Pacific history: its presence there was more limited than that of other European nations, and whereas its European rivals established themselves as imperial forces beginning in the early modern era, Germany did not seriously pursue colonialism until the nineteenth century. Yet thanks to recent advances in the field emphasizing transoceanic networks and cultural encounters, it is now possible to develop a more nuanced understanding of the history of Germans in the Pacific. The studies gathered here offer fascinating research into German missionary, commercial, scientific, and imperial activity against the backdrop of the Pacific’s overlapping cultural circuits and complex oceanic transits.
Author : Lionel Frost
Release : 2017-05-15
Genre : History
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Book Rating : 341/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Urbanization and the Pacific World, 1500–1900 by : Lionel Frost
Download or read book Urbanization and the Pacific World, 1500–1900 written by Lionel Frost. This book was released on 2017-05-15. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Between 1500 and 1900 there was a constant growth in the numbers of large cities and networks of smaller towns throughout the Pacific world in which traders and primary producers did business. The essays in Urbanization and the Pacific World explore the increasingly complex economic relationships that connected cities in and around the Pacific world to each other, and pay particular attention to the impact that growing cities had on the economies of their hinterlands. The volume also contains articles that examine the problems that city growth created and the ways in which people were able to cope with them. Along with the new introduction, the essays cover all of the regions of the Pacific world in which city growth took place, and will allow the reader to consider a wide range of common and contrasting urban experiences.
