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Southern and Eastern Polynesia: Volume 2 of Russia and the South Pacific, 1696-1840

Southern and Eastern Polynesia: Volume 2 of Russia and the South Pacific, 1696-1840


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The second volume in Glynn Barratt's projected quartet on thenaval, scientific, and social activities of the Imperial Russian Navyin the South Pacific, this book describes Russian activities in NewZealand, the Austral Islands and Easter Island. These widely scatteredareas were all visited by warships of the Russian navy and by companiesof highly educated and observant officers and "gentlemen ofscience" in the early 1800's. Barratt's annotated and careful translations of thevisitors' eyewitness accounts provide fascinating, sometimesamusing, reading about the landfalls of the ships. The Russians'journals, reports, and drawings are collated with artefacts collectedon the spot and with contemporaneous European data to produce a vividpicture of life and culture in these parts of the South Pacific in theearly post-contact period. Although available in Soviet archives, many of the primary sourcesthat Barratt has examined for this book have until now been almostcompletely ignored by Western scholars in spite of their importance inunderstanding the changes that took place in post-contact Oceania.These archival holdings, as described by the author, will be of majorimportance to those interested in the history and ethnohistory ofsouthern and eastern Polynesia.

Table of Contents:
Illustrations Introduction Part One: Easter Island 1. Preparations for a Voyage 2. The Russian Texts 3. The Scientific Legacy Part Two: New Zealand 4. Earlier Russian Knowledge of New Zealand 5. The Russians in New Zealand 6. The Russian Ethnographic Record for Queen Charlotte Sound, 1820Envoi: Scientific and Political Developments, 1828-32 Part Three: The Austral Islands 7. The Bellingshausen Contacts, 1820 8. The Russian Texts 9. Reflections on the Ethnographic Evidence Notes Bibliography Index

About the Author :
Glynn Barratt is a professor of Russian at CarletonUniversity and the author of many books on Russia's naval anddiplomatic history.

Review :
Barratt has made available fresh material on the Russian expeditions that will be of considerable interest to historians of maritime exploration. - Christon I. Archer (Argonauta) His careful translations of personal journals make for fascinating reading in addition to their worth to ethnographers. - Louise McReynolds (The Contemporary Pacific)


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  • ISBN-13: 9780774856843
  • Publisher: University of British Columbia Press
  • Publisher Imprint: University of British Columbia Press
  • Language: English
  • Sub Title: Volume 2 of Russia and the South Pacific, 1696-1840
  • ISBN-10: 077485684X
  • Publisher Date: 01 Jan 1988
  • Binding: Digital download
  • No of Pages: 316


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