Exploring the Pacific
by Vail, Martha
Each ship that ventured into the Pacific around the Cape of Good Hope, through the Strait of Magellan or around Cape Horn carried the hope and ambitions of its sponsoring nation. The Pacific, perhaps even more so than the Americas or Africa, became the playing board for the global game of imperial chess. By the 20th century, only the most remote and inhospitable islands were free from American, European or South American colonial administration. Exploring the Pacific, Revised Edition explains h…
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Each ship that ventured into the Pacific around the Cape of Good Hope, through the Strait of Magellan or around Cape Horn carried the hope and ambitions of its sponsoring nation. The Pacific, perhaps even more so than the Americas or Africa, became the playing board for the global game of imperial chess. By the 20th century, only the most remote and inhospitable islands were free from American, European or South American colonial administration. Exploring the Pacific, Revised Edition explains how explorers of the Pacific region expanded geographical knowledge and contributed to human understanding by generating maps, charts, paintings and reports. The book covers such explorers as Bartolomeu Dias, Vasco Nunez de Balboa, Ferdinand Magellan, Alvaro de Mendana and James Cook.
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- Publication Date:2009.
- Edition:Rev. ed
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):Chelsea House
- Place of Publication:New York
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:2009.
The Physical Object
- Description:120 pages : : illustrations (some color), color maps, portraits (some color) ; : 25 cm.
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9781604131970, 1604131977
- oclc:ocn568232765
- LC Classification:DU19
- Dewey Decimal:919.04
Table of Contents
"Tide beating heart of the earth" -- The first Pacific explorers -- Europeans encounter the Pacific, from east and west -- The Spanish in the Pacific -- Exploration in the service of commerce -- Exploration in the service of empire -- James Cook explores the Pacific -- Science and empire.
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