French and the Pacific World, 17th-19th Centuries

French and the Pacific World, 17th-19th Centuries

Explorations, Migrations and Cultural Exchanges

Foucrier, Annick

Taylor & Francis Ltd

03/2005

388

Dura

Inglês

9780754606017

15 a 20 dias

816

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Contents: Introduction. Part 1 Overviews and European Rivalries: European expansion in the Island Pacific: a historiographical review, Robert Aldrich; The French presence in the Pacific Ocean and California, 1700-1850, Annick Foucrier; Aspects of French policy in the Pacific, 1853-1906, C.W. Newbury. Part 2 Exchanges and migrations: French whalers in New Zealand, Christiane Mortelier; The Trans-Canadian French connection with the Pacific Northwest frontier: missionnaries, books, and media in Oregon, 1835-55, Lawrence J. McCrank; The voyage of Captain Lucas and the daguerreotype to Sydney, R. Derek Wood; The French presence in Sydney and the establishment of the French Chamber of Commerce, Ivan Barko; '... to divide their love': celebrating Frenchness and Americanization in San Francisco, 1850-1909, Annick Foucrier. Part 3 Colonial Societies: Colonisation or incarceration? The changing role of the French penal colony in fin-de-siecle New Caledonia, Stephen A. Toth; The foundation of Voh 1892-95: French migrants on the West Coast of New Caledonia, Isabelle Merle; 'Noumea no good. Noumea no pay': 'New Hebridean' indentured labour in New Caledonia, 1865-1925, Dorothy Shineberg; Engendering French colonial history: the case of Indochina, Marie-Paule Ha. Part 4 Changing Representations: Asian Civilizations: Beijing-Versailles: relations between Qing Dynasty China and France, Jean-Paul Desroches; Consul de France in mid-19th-century China, Raphael Israeli; Critical response to Japan at the Paris 1878 exposition universelle, Deborah Levitt-Pasturel; The tears of Madame Chrysantheme: love and history in France's Japan, Matt K. Matsuda; Pacific Island Peoples: The choosers or the dispossessed? Aspects of the work of some French 18th-century Pacific explorers, Jane Elliott; The scientific expedition of Leon de Cessac to California, 1877-79, Henry Reichlen and Robert F. Heizer; Victor Segalen: ethnography and 'exotisme' in Les Immemoriaux, Rosemar
Held;French expansion;Colonial Administration;Labor migrations;French Whaling;Pacific World;Qui;French whalers;Follow;Island Pacific's history;Sea Otter;Young Men;Le Japon;Gauguin;East Indies;French Presence;Alta California;Tahitian Society;Tahitian People;Gambier Island;Monterey;Civil Societies;Violated;Felix;Chronic;Gazette Des Beaux Arts;Wander;Philippe Burty;Daily Alta California;De Bovis