Britain, Canada and the North Pacific : maritime enterprise and dominion, 1778-1914 /
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Aldershot, Hampshire, Great Britain ; Burlington, VT :
Ashgate,
[2004]
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| Series: | Collected studies ;
CS786. |
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Table of Contents:
- James Cook and British enterprise in the North Pacific. The Northwest coast in late 18th century
- New empires of trade and territory in the time of Malaspina
- Pacific exploration in the 1780s and 1790s
- James Cook and the origins of the maritime fur trade
- India-based expeditions of trade and discovery in the north Pacific in the late eighteenth century
- William Bolts and the Austrian attempt to establish and eastern empire
- The North West Company's "adventure to China"
- Peter Pond and Athabasca : fur trade, discovery, and empire
- British-Russian rivalry and the search for the Northwest passage in the early 19th century
- The Royal Navy and the Oregon Crisis, 1844-1846
- Forests and sea power : a Vancouver Island economy, 1778-1875
- Possessing Meares Island
- Sea power and South America : the "Brazils" or South American station of the Royal Navy 1808-1837
- Specie conveyance from the west coast of Mexico in British warships c. 1820-1870 : an aspect of the Pax Britannica
- The records of the Royal Navy's Pacific station
- Canada and the North Pacific, 1871-1914 : problems of a lion's cub in an open den
- The Royal Navy and Canadian dominion
- Sea power and British North America : the maritime foundations of the Canadian state
- Pax Britannica : peace, force and world power.