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Empire, Barbarism, and Civilisation: Captain Cook, William Hodges and the Return to the Pacific
Harriet Guest
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Description for Empire, Barbarism, and Civilisation: Captain Cook, William Hodges and the Return to the Pacific
hardcover. An original and richly illustrated study of the pictorial and written representations of Cook's voyages. Num Pages: 270 pages, 32 b/w illus. 50 colour illus. BIC Classification: 1D; 3JF; HBJD; HBLL; HBTB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 183 x 252 x 20. Weight in Grams: 804.
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 fascinating journals of Cook and his companions, reveal as much about European cultures and historiography as about the peoples they visited. In this lively and original 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 ... Read more
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 fascinating journals of Cook and his companions, reveal as much about European cultures and historiography as about the peoples they visited. In this lively and original 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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Cambridge University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
270
Condition
New
Number of Pages
270
Place of Publication
Cambridge, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780521881944
SKU
V9780521881944
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About Harriet Guest
Harriet Guest is Professor of English in the Centre for Eighteenth Century Studies at the University of York.
Reviews for Empire, Barbarism, and Civilisation: Captain Cook, William Hodges and the Return to the Pacific
'Guest offers a series of fascinating and carefully nuanced readings of textual and visual representations of the South Pacific. … Guest is as acute and informed an art historian as she is a literary critic, and the interdisciplinary approach is one of the book's great strengths. … A truly interdisciplinary study, Empire, Barbarism, and Civilisation should find its way onto ... Read more