Encountering The Pacific In The Age Of Enlightenment
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 542
ISBN-13: 9780521879590
Description: Applies the themes of exploration, belief, wealth, and knowledge to British, French, Spanish, Dutch, and Russian voyagers in the Pacific, depicting the episodes that helped define the Enlightenment and its limitations in contact between European and Pacific peoples.