Nature in its Greatest Extent: Western Science in the Pacific

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Nature in its Greatest Extent

Western Science in the Pacific

Edited by: Roy Macleod and Philip F. Rehbock

Language: English

Published/Copyright: 1988

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Contents
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Figures
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Preface
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Introduction
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Roy Macleod and Philip F. Rehbock
Part I: Europe in the Pacific
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1. Seamen and Scientists: The Literature of the Pacific, 1697-1798
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O. H. K. Spate
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2. Science for Political Purposes: European Explorations of the Pacific Ocean, 1764-1806
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Alan Frost
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3. Pierre-Adolphe Lesson, Surgeon-Naturalist: A Misfit in a Successful System
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Isabel Ollivier
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4. Tall Tales or True Stories? Baudin, Peron, and the Tasmanians, 1802
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Miranda Hughes
Part II: Metropolitan Perspectives and Colonial Science
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5. The Natural World of New Guinea: Hopes, Realities, and Legacies
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David G. Frodin
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6. Darwin's Australian Correspondents: Deference and Collaboration in Colonial Science
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Barry W. Butcher
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7. Imperial Reflections in the Southern Seas: The Funafuti Expeditions, 1896-1904
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Roy Macleod
Part III. Pacific Science in the Making
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8. Organizing Pacific Science: Local and International Origins of the Pacific Science Association
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Philip F. Rehbock
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9. Wilbert Chapman and the Revolution in U.S. Pacific Ocean Science and Policy, 1945-1951
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Harry N. Scheiber
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10. Soviet Science in the Pacific: The Case of Marine Biology
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Robert H. Randolph and John E. Bardach
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Contributors
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Index
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Nature in its Greatest Extent

Overview

Topics

Table of contents

Frontmatter

Contents

Figures

Preface

Introduction

1. Seamen and Scientists: The Literature of the Pacific, 1697-1798

2. Science for Political Purposes: European Explorations of the Pacific Ocean, 1764-1806

3. Pierre-Adolphe Lesson, Surgeon-Naturalist: A Misfit in a Successful System

4. Tall Tales or True Stories? Baudin, Peron, and the Tasmanians, 1802

5. The Natural World of New Guinea: Hopes, Realities, and Legacies

6. Darwin's Australian Correspondents: Deference and Collaboration in Colonial Science

7. Imperial Reflections in the Southern Seas: The Funafuti Expeditions, 1896-1904

8. Organizing Pacific Science: Local and International Origins of the Pacific Science Association

9. Wilbert Chapman and the Revolution in U.S. Pacific Ocean Science and Policy, 1945-1951

10. Soviet Science in the Pacific: The Case of Marine Biology

Contributors

Index

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