Introduction

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Contents VII
3. Figures IX
4. Preface XI
5. Introduction 1
6. Part I: Europe in the Pacific
7. 1. Seamen and Scientists: The Literature of the Pacific, 1697-1798 13
8. 2. Science for Political Purposes: European Explorations of the Pacific Ocean, 1764-1806 27
9. 3. Pierre-Adolphe Lesson, Surgeon-Naturalist: A Misfit in a Successful System 45
10. 4. Tall Tales or True Stories? Baudin, Peron, and the Tasmanians, 1802 65
11. Part II: Metropolitan Perspectives and Colonial Science
12. 5. The Natural World of New Guinea: Hopes, Realities, and Legacies 89
13. 6. Darwin's Australian Correspondents: Deference and Collaboration in Colonial Science 139
14. 7. Imperial Reflections in the Southern Seas: The Funafuti Expeditions, 1896-1904 159
15. Part III. Pacific Science in the Making
16. 8. Organizing Pacific Science: Local and International Origins of the Pacific Science Association 195
17. 9. Wilbert Chapman and the Revolution in U.S. Pacific Ocean Science and Policy, 1945-1951 223
18. 10. Soviet Science in the Pacific: The Case of Marine Biology 245
19. Contributors 275
20. Index 279