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First Published in 1970. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Author : Howard T Fry
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 359 pages
File Size : 46,26 MB
Release : 2013-10-23
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1135156697
First Published in 1970. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Author : Howard T. Fry
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 46,80 MB
Release : 2013-11-05
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1136606947
Alexander Dalrymple was once described as the man who, after Hakluyt, had done most for the spread of Britain’s commerce. In this important new work, Dr. Fry discusses Dalrymple’s extensive contribution to knowledge about New Guinea and his pioneer attempt to establish a free port on Balambangan, and shows that his interest in the possibility of a North-West Passage and his influence in government circles were to be a major factor in bringing about Vancouver’s survey. Dalrymple’s research and theories about the great Southern Continent led to his appointment by the Royal Society as commander of the 1768 expedition, and though the Admiralty countermanded this decision and appointed instead Captain Cook, Dalrymple’s geographical researches were the motivating force behind the initiation of the search for Terra Australis. Dr. Fry throws interesting new light on Dalrymple’s relations with Cook, which, he argues, have been consistently misrepresented. Dalrymple became an expert navigator and surveyor during his years as captain of East India snows, and he became in turn hydrographer of the East India Company and the Admiralty. His work in this field revolutionised chart-making and was a contribution of incalculable value to Britain’s maritime supremacy in the nineteenth century. This classic book was first published in 1970.
Author : Alexander Dalrymple
Publisher :
Page : 3 pages
File Size : 38,49 MB
Release : 1784
Category : Navigation
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Author : Howard T. Fry
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 363 pages
File Size : 39,99 MB
Release : 2013-11-05
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1136606874
Alexander Dalrymple was once described as the man who, after Hakluyt, had done most for the spread of Britain’s commerce. In this important new work, Dr. Fry discusses Dalrymple’s extensive contribution to knowledge about New Guinea and his pioneer attempt to establish a free port on Balambangan, and shows that his interest in the possibility of a North-West Passage and his influence in government circles were to be a major factor in bringing about Vancouver’s survey. Dalrymple’s research and theories about the great Southern Continent led to his appointment by the Royal Society as commander of the 1768 expedition, and though the Admiralty countermanded this decision and appointed instead Captain Cook, Dalrymple’s geographical researches were the motivating force behind the initiation of the search for Terra Australis. Dr. Fry throws interesting new light on Dalrymple’s relations with Cook, which, he argues, have been consistently misrepresented. Dalrymple became an expert navigator and surveyor during his years as captain of East India snows, and he became in turn hydrographer of the East India Company and the Admiralty. His work in this field revolutionised chart-making and was a contribution of incalculable value to Britain’s maritime supremacy in the nineteenth century. This classic book was first published in 1970.
Author : Alexander Dalrymple
Publisher :
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 11,37 MB
Release : 1769
Category : Oceania
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Author : Alexander Dalrymple
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Page : pages
File Size : 12,18 MB
Release : 1808
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Author : Alexander Dalrymple
Publisher :
Page : 114 pages
File Size : 16,3 MB
Release : 1769
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Page : 606 pages
File Size : 34,84 MB
Release : 1802
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Author : Alexander Dalrymple
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Page : 8 pages
File Size : 17,82 MB
Release : 1808
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Author : James Francis Warren
Publisher : NUS Press
Page : 452 pages
File Size : 43,81 MB
Release : 2007
Category : History
ISBN : 9789971693862
"First published in 1981, ""The Sulu Zone"" has become a classic in the field of Southeast Asian History. The book deals with a fascinating geographical, cultural and historical ""border zone"" centred on the Sulu and Celebes Seas between 1768 and 1898, and its complex interactions with China and the West. The author examines the social and cultural forces generated within the Sulu Sultanate by the China trade, namely the advent of organized, long distance maritime slave raiding and the assimilation of captives on a hitherto unprecedented scale into a traditional Malayo-Muslim social system. How entangled commodities, trajectories of tastes, and patterns of consumption and desire that span continents linked to slavery and slave raiding, the manipulation of diverse ethnic groups, the meaning and constitution of ""culture, "" and state formation? James Warren responds to this question by reconstructing the social, economic, and political relationships of diverse peoples in a multi-ethnic zone of which the Sulu Sultanate was the centre, and by problematizing important categories like ""piracy"", ""slavery"", ""culture"", ""ethnicity"", and the ""state"". His work analyzes the dynamics of the last autonomous Malayo-Muslim maritime state over a long historical period and describes its stunning response to the world capitalist economy and the rapid ""forward movement"" of colonialism and modernity. It also shows how the changing world of global cultural flows and economic interactions caused by cross-cultural trade and European dominance affected men and women who were forest dwellers, highlanders, and slaves, people who worked in everyday jobs as fishers, raiders, divers or traders. Often neglected by historians, the response of these members of society are a crucial part of the history of Southeast Asia."--