The Pacific World
Volume 8
British Imperial Strategies in the Pacific, 17501900
THE PACIFIC WORLD
Lands, Peoples and History of the Pacific, 15001900
General Editors: Dennis O. Flynn and Arturo Girldez
1 Defining the Pacific: Opportunities and Constraints
Edited by PAUL W. BLANK and FRED SPIER
2 Environmental History of the Pacific
Edited by J.R. MCNEILL
3 Peoples in the Pacific
4 European Entry into the Pacific: Spain and the AcapulcoManila Galleons
Edited by DENNIS O. FLYNN, ARTURO GIRLDEZ, and JAMES SOBREDO
5 Eclipsed Entrepts of the Western Pacific, 15001800: Taiwan and Central Vietnam
Edited by JOHN E. WILLS, JR
6 Science, Empire and the European Exploration of the Pacific
Edited by TONY BALLANTYNE
7 The French and the Pacific World, 17th19th Centuries
Edited by ANNICK FOUCRIER
8 British Imperial Strategies in the Pacific, 17501900
Edited by JANE SAMSON
9 American Empire in the Pacific: From Trade to Strategic Balance, 17001922
Edited by ARTHUR P. DUDDEN
10 The Impact of Mechanization in the Pacific
Edited by KEITH POMERANZ
11 Textiles in Pacific History
Edited by DEBIN MA
12 Agriculture and Plantations in the Pacific
13 Exploitation of Pacific Resources and Commodities
14 Drugs and Alcohol in the Pacific: New Consumption Trends and their Consequences
Edited by JUAN F. GAMELLA
15 Urbanization around the Pacific
Edited by LIONEL FROST
16 Migrations in the Pacific after 1500: Chinese and Other Diasporas
Edited by ANTHONY REID
17 Religion and Missionaries in the Pacific, 15001900
Edited by TANYA STORCH
18 Islands and Islanders Responses to the Arrival of Europeans
19 Japan and the Pacific: Threat and Opportunity
Edited by MARK CAPRIO AND KOICHIRO MATSUDA
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The Pacific World
Lands, Peoples and History of the Pacific, 15001900
Volume 8
British Imperial Strategies in the Pacific, 17501900
edited by
Jane Samson
First published 2003 in The Pacific World Series by Ashgate Publishing
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British imperial strategies in the Pacific, 17501900.
(The Pacific world : lands, peoples, and history of the Pacific, 15001900
1. Imperialism History 2. Great Britain Foreign relations 18th century 3. Great Britain Foreign relations 19th century 4. Great Britain Foreign relations Pacific Area 5. Pacific Area Foreign relations Great Britain I. Samson, Jane, 1962
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British imperial strategies in the Pacific, 17501900 / edited by Jane Samson,
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Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN 0-7546-1961-3 (alk. paper)
1. Great BritainColoniesOceania. 2. OceaniaForeign relationsGreat Britain. 3. Great BritainForeign relationsOceania. 4. Great BritainForeign relationsPacific Area. 5. Pacific AreaForeign relationsGreat Britain. 6. ImperialismHistory. I. Samson, Jane, 1962- II. Series.
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THE PACIFIC WORLD VOL. 8
Contents
Alan Frost
Barry M. Gough
David Mackay
Glyndwr Williams
Nicholas Thomas
Daniel Clayton
Richard Somerset Mackie
Alan Atkinson
Robin Haines
Robin Fisher
James Belich
Doug Munro and Stewart Firth
Greg Dening
Niel Gunson
Jane Samson
John D. Kelly
Christine Ward Gailey
J.R. McNeill
My heartfelt thanks go to series editors Dennis Flynn and Arturo Girldez for giving me the opportunity to compile this volume, and to John Smedley for his enthusiastic support. I would like to dedicate the book to the memory of Fritz Rehbock, whose untimely passing has saddened so many of us in the field of Pacific history and beyond.
The chapters in this volume are taken from the sources listed below, for which the editor and publishers wish to thank their authors, original publishers or other copyright holders for permission to use their materials as follows:
: Alan Frost, Nootka Sound and the Beginnings of Britains Imperialism of Free Trade, in Robin Fisher and Hugh Johnston (eds), Maps to Metaphors: The Pacific World of George Vancouver (Vancouver: UBC Press, 1993), pp. 104126, 314317. Copyright 1993 by the University of British Columbia Press. All rights reserved by the publisher.
: Barry M. Gough, The North West Companys Adventure to China, Oregon Historical Quarterly, 76 (1974), pp. 308331. Copyright 1975 by the Oregon Historical Society. Tray: View of Canton with Factories. With kind permission from The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Rogers Fund, 1941 (41.44). All rights reserved, The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
: David Mackay, Myth, Science, and Experience in the British Construction of the Pacific, in Alex Calder, Jonathan Lamb, and Bridget Orr (eds), Voyages and Beaches: Pacific Encounters, 17691840 (Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1999), pp. 100113.
: Glyndwr Williams, English Attitudes to Indigenous Peoples of the Pacific, in John Hardy and Alan Frost (eds), European Voyaging Towards Australia (Canberra: Australian Academy of the Humanities, 1990), pp. 133141. Copyright 1990 by Glyndwr Williams.
: Nicholas Thomas, Licensed Curiosity: Cooks Pacific Voyages, in John Eisner and Roger Cardinal (eds), The Cultures of Collecting (London: Reakston Books, 1994), pp. 116136, 281282. Copyright 1994 by Reakston Books.
: Daniel Clayton, The Creation of Imperial Space in the Pacific Northwest, Journal of Historical Geography, 26 (2000), pp. 327350. Copyright 2000 by Academic Press. By permission of the publisher Academic Press, an Imprint of Elsevier Science.
: Richard Somerset Mackie, The Colonization of Vancouver Island, 18491858, B.C. Studies, 96 (199293), pp. 340.
: Alan Atkinson, The First Plans for Governing New South Wales, 178687,
