Pacific Empires Book

	Preface
	Notes on Contributors
	Introduction	1
Pt. 1	Explorations, Imperial and Scientific Ventures
	'To Make Discoveries of Countries Hitherto Unknown': The Admiralty and Pacific Exploration in the Eighteenth Century	13
	The Spanish Yoke: British Schemes to Revolutionise Spanish America, 1739-1807	33
	Alexander Dalrymple and the Hydrographic Office	53
	An Empire of Science: The Voyage of HMS Herald, 1845-1851	69
	John Lort Stokes and the New Zealand Survey, 1848-1851	87
	A Warrant Officer in the Arctic: The Journal of George Ford, 1850-1854	101
Pt. 2	Encounters and Transformations
	The Hegemony of Laughter: Purea's Theatre	127
	Vancouver's Vision of Native Peoples: The Northwest Coast and Hawai'i	147
	Whose Scourge? Smallpox Epidemics on the Northwest Coast	165
	The Career of William Ellis: British Missions, the Pacific, and the American Connection	193
	Colonised Lives: The Native Wives and Daughters of Five Founding Families of Victoria	215
Pt. 3	Reflections
	The Great Map of Mankind: The British Encounter with India	237
	Exploring the Pacific, Exploring James Cook	251
	The Works of Glyndwr Williams	271
	Abbreviations	276
	Notes	280
	Index	321