Paper 21 reading list - Faculty of History

F Thistlethwaite ‘Migration from Europe overseas’, in Population Movements in Modern European History,
ed. H Moller
James Fichter, So great a profit. How the East India trade transformed Anglo-American capitalism (Harvard, 2011)
JS Galbraith The Turbulent Frontier” as factor in British expansion’, CSSH 2 (1959/60)
R Hyam Britain’s Imperial Century (2nd edn, 1993)
JR Ward ‘British Imperialism 1750–1850’, EcHR xlvii (1994), 344–63
9 A MIDDLE GROUND? First Peoples, Slaves, and British and French expansion, 1600-1815
Can the story of early French and British colonial expansion be reduced to the impact of Europeans upon the others?
P. Boucher, Cannibal Encounter
-------------- France and the American Tropics to 1700 (2007)
R. White, The Middle Ground (1991)
R. Cronon, Changes in the Land (1984)
A. Gallay, The Indian Slave Trade (2002)
G. E. Dowd, A Spirited Resistance
R Fabel. Colonial Challenges: Britons, Native Americans, and Caribs, 1759-1775. (2000)
D. Garraway, The Libertine Colony: Creolization in the Early French Caribbean (2005)
S Gruzinski, The Mestizo Mind
M Vaughan, Creating the Creole Island: Slavery in Colonial Mauritius (2005)
G. Midlo Hall, Slavery and African Ethnicities in the Americas
S Fischer, Modernity Disavowed (2002)
S Aravamudan , Tropicopolitans: Colonialism and Agency, 1688-1804
J. Thornton, Africa and Africans in the Making of the Atlantic World
10 The Pacific Ocean
a) Why did Pacific explorations arouse such attention in Europe in the late eighteenth and early
nineteenth centuries?
OR
b) How did Pacific islanders respond and come to terms with the arrival of Europeans on their
shores?
Introductory
Alan Moorehead, The Fatal Impact (Harmondsworth, 1966)
Bernard Smith, European Vision and the South Pacific (Yale, 1985)
Harry Liebersohn, The travelers’ world: Europe to the Pacific (Cambridge, Mass., 2006)
Debate
Marshall Sahlins Islands of history (Chicago, 1985)
Gananath Obeyeskere The apotheosis of Captain Cook: European mythmaking in the Pacific (Princeton, 1992)
Greg Dening Islands and beaches: Discourses on a silent land, Marquesas, 1774-1880 (Carlton, Vic., 1980)
Paul Carter The road to Botany Bay (Chicago, 1987)
Anne Salmond, Two worlds: First meetings between Europeans and Maori, 1642-1772 (Auckland, 1991)
Alan Frost and Jane Samson eds. Pacific empires: essays in honour of Glyndwr Williams (Vancouver, 1999)
Nicholas Thomas Entangled objects: exchange, material culture and colonialism in the Pacific (Cambridge, 1991)
P.J. Marshall and Glyndwr Williams The Great Map of Mankind (London, 1989)
Rod Edmond Representing the South Pacific: Colonial Discourse from Cook to Gauguin (Cambridge, 1997)
Glyndwr Williams ‘Pacific: Exploitation and Exploration’ in P. J. Marshall, ed. OXHBE, Vol.2.
Jane Samson Imperial Benevolence: Making British Authority in the Pacific Islands (Honolulu, 1998)
Janet Browne Charles Darwin Voyaging (New York, 2002)