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Empire, Barbarism, and Civilisation - Captain Cook, William Hodges and the Return to the Pacific (Hardcover)
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Empire, Barbarism, and Civilisation - Captain Cook, William Hodges and the Return to the Pacific (Hardcover)
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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 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.
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