Title: Empire, Barbarism, and Civilisation
Description: "The artist William Hodges accompanied Captain Cook on his second voyage to the South Pacific in 1772-5. His extraordinarily vivid images, read against the journals of Cook and his companions, reveal as much about European cultures and historiography as about the peoples they visited. In this book, Harriet Guest discusses Hodges's dramatic landscapes and portraits alongside written accounts of the voyages and in the context of the theories of civilisation which shaped European perceptions - theories drawn from the works of philosophers of the Scottish enlightenment such as Adam Smith and John Millar.

She argues that the voyagers resorted to diverse or incompatible models of progress in successive encounters with different groups of islanders, and shows how these models also structured metropolitan views of the voyagers and of Hodges's work. This fully illustrated study offers a fresh perspective on eighteenth-century representations of gender, colonialism and exploration."--Jacket.
Subjects: History, In art, Early works to 1800, Description and travel, Diaries, European Foreign public opinion, Travel in literature, Cook, james, 1728-1779, Oceania, discovery and exploration, Europe, history, 18th century
Places: Oceania
People: William Hodges (1744-1797), James Cook (1728-1779)
Time periods: 18th century