Constructing Colonial Discourse: Cook at Nootka Sound, 1778 9780773572973
While Captain James Cook's South Pacific voyages have been extensively studied, much less attention has been paid t
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Table of contents :
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Life in the Contact Zone
1 Travel and Exploration Literature: Constructing the New World
2 Approaching Sublimity: Aesthetics, Exploration, and the Northwest Coast
3 Science and Ethnography: The Field of Vision
4 Cook and the Cannibals: The Limits of Understanding
5 Reconstructing Cook
Notes
Bibliography
Index
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