Tony Ballantyne
Ashgate
Hardback
394
2004
This collection of essays assesses the interrelationship between exploration empire-building and science in the opening up of the Pacific Ocean by Europeans between the early 16th and mid-19th century. It explores both the role of various sciences in enabling European imperial projects in the region and how the exploration of the Pacific in turn shaped emergent scientific disciplines and their claims to authority within Europe. Together with the introductory essay the studies included constitute a significant body of scholarship that offers many important insights for anthropologists and geographers as well as for historians of science and European imperialism.
Ashgate
Hardback
394
2004
This collection of essays assesses the interrelationship between exploration empire-building and science in the opening up of the Pacific Ocean by Europeans between the early 16th and mid-19th century. It explores both the role of various sciences in enabling European imperial projects in the region and how the exploration of the Pacific in turn shaped emergent scientific disciplines and their claims to authority within Europe. Together with the introductory essay the studies included constitute a significant body of scholarship that offers many important insights for anthropologists and geographers as well as for historians of science and European imperialism.