Globalization, imperialism, and Europeans in the Pacific

Test 1 on Thursday in our K-F classroom. No need to bring a blue book. Consult the study guide and contact us if you have any questions.

Office hours Thursday cancelled.

Journals this week: bring two discussion questions on "Enlarging the Sphere of Contemplation" to sections on Friday.

 

cook chart

 

I. Globalization

"a process that transforms economic, political, social, and cultural relationships across countries, regions, and continents by spreading them more broadly, making them more intense, and increasing their velocity" [David Held]

phases:

Archaic (13th-18th c)
-kings and warriors, pilgrims, merchants
-exotica
-cosmopolitanism
-universalist ideologies

Proto (1600-1800)
-reconfiguration of states
-growth of finance and preindustrial manufacturing
-rise of the west

Modern (c. 1800-1950s)

Postcolonial (1950s-present)

 

II. Globalization, empire building and knowledge gathering

the Encyclopedie
Denis Diderot (1713-1784) and Jean le Rond d'Alembert (1717-1783)
interest in the exotic, state of nature, noble savages [illustration: "coton"]

 

III. Europeans in the Pacific

A. Anglo-French rivalry

science and empire

Louis-Antoine de Bougainville's circumnavigation (1766)
Voyage autour du monde (1771)
Bougainville website

Samuel Wallis (1767-68) and Philip Carteret (1767-68)

omiaOmai, Banks, Solander

 

B. James Cook

1768-71, 1772-75, 1776-80 [map] [journal]


Bougainville

James Cook

Omai

SYW

Alexander Dalrymple

Royal Society (founded 1660)

transit of Venus

Joseph Banks

Daniel Solander

Carolus Linnaeus

Omai

Ode to the Memory of the Late Captain James Cook (1780)

Resolution

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Cook illustration

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

C. new European understandings

Edmund Burke: "now. . . the Great Map of Mankind is unrolld at once; and there is no state or Gradation of barbarism, and no mode of refinement which we have not at the same instant under our View: The very different Civility of Europe and China. The barbarism of Persia and Abyssinia. The erratick manners of Tartary, and of Arabia. The Savage State of North America, and of New Zealand."

dissemination of knowledge

 

Conclusion: empire and knowledge gathering

Cook's secret instructions

New South Wales [link]