Title: Encountering The Pacific In The Age Of Enlightenment
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.
Subjects: History, Pacific studies, Pacific Islanders, First contact with Europeans, First contact of aboriginal peoples with Westerners