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Showing 1 to 6 of 6 for “"James Cook"”.
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Technologies of Encounter: Exhibition-Making and the 18th Century South Pacific
Between 1768 and 1780 Captain James Cook led three epic voyages from Britain into the Pacific Ocean, where he and his fellow explorers- artists, naturalists, philosophers and sailors, were to encounter societies and cultures of extraordinary diversity. These 18th Century South Pacific encounters …
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Ghosts of the Pacific: imagined masculinities in British voyage literature, 1697-1818
… By the end of the century, Pacific voyagers like James Cook were celebrated as national heroes and were popularly thought to embody Enlightenment ideals of reason and civility. Less than fifty years before, however, Pacific mariners were viewed as threatening figures whose transgressive identities …
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Biological oxygen production from oxygen-to-argon ratios and oxygen isotopologues in the Atlantic Ocean
… G from discrete samples both in the USW of RSS James Cook (South Atlantic) and R/V Knorr (North Atlantic). Discrete samples were processed in a newly built gas extraction line and analyze in an Isotope Ratio Mass Spectrometer at UEA. The gas extraction line was built for the separation of O2 and …
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To the Ends of the Earth: A Study of the Explorative Discourse Promoting British Expansionism in Canada
Between 1760 and 1833, English explorers systematically filled in the map of British North America. Many of those explorers worked for two fur-trading companies: the Hudson's Bay Company and the North West Company. In pursuit of new sources of fur, they opened western Canada to European …
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Catching Shadows: The Exhibition of Intangible Heritage of Oceania in Lisa Reihana’s in Pursuit of Venus [infected]
Since the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization Convention for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage in 2003 and the increased prevalence of decolonizing objectives in museums, curators have been faced with the challenge of how to exhibit intangible …