Samson Pacific Bibliography Crawl
by Alex
I finished June Sampson’s excellent _Imperial Benevolence: Making British Authority in the Pacific Islands_ quite some time ago but I haven’t returned it to the library yet becasue I haven’t written down the articles she cites that I want to read. Since this is the place I’m least likely to loose them, you all get to read them too.
Ronald Meek. Science and the Ignoble Savage. Cambridge UP 1976
Glyndwr Williams. Savages Noble and Ignoble: European Attitudes towards the Wider World before 1800. Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History 6(3):300-313 1978
P.J Marshall and Glyndwr Williams. The Great Map of Manking: British Perceptions of the World in the Age of Englightenment. London: Dent. 1982
Robin Fishcer and Hugh Johnston. From Maps to Metaphors: The Pacific World of George Vancouver. UBC P 1993.
Phillp Curtin. The Image of Africa: British Ideas and Action, 1780-1850. U Wisc P 1965
John S Galbraith and George Bennet. The Humanitarian Impulse to Imperialism. in Winks ed. “The Age of Imperialism: Gold, God, Glory”.
Jane Samson. British Voices and Indigenous Rights: Debating Aboriginal Legal Status in Nineteenth Century Australia and Canada. Cultures of the Commonwealth 2:5-16. 1996-7.
British anti-slavery:
Ian Bradley. The Call to Seriousness: The Evangelical Impact on the Victorians.
Peter Marsh. The Conscience of the Victorian State.
Boyd Hilton. The Age of Atonement: The Influence of Evangelicalism on Social and Economic Thought.
Daivid Turley. The Culture of English Antislavery, 1780-1860.
Roger Thomspon. Australian Imperialism in the Pacific: Expansionism. 1820-1920.
John Ward. British Policy in the South Pacific 1786-1893.
Harding and Frost. European Voyaging Towards Australia.
Nice list, and very in-tune with my own interests. If you get even more curious: Turley’s book on antislavery is good, but Catherine Hall’s (Civilising Subjects, 2002) is even better imho (although less general). And if you like imperial cartography, you might like Felix Driver’s _Geography Militant_, which is a great recent study of the aims, politics, and ramifications of the Royal Geographical Society.