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The French Contribution to the Exploration of the Pacific in the Eighteenth Century

Dunmore, John (Victoria University of Wellington, 1961)

THIS THESIS is an attempt to examine and correlate the voyages of the French in the Pacific Ocean during the latter part of the eighteenth century. So far, no study of this kind has been attempted, most recent research ...
Irish Maritime Trade in the Eighteenth Century: a Study in Patterns of Trade, Market Structures, and Merchant Communities

Cheer, Karen A (Victoria University of Wellington, 2009)

Ireland has a centuries-long history of maritime and economic interaction with Great Britain and other more distant communities on the Atlantic rim. In the last forty years of academic writing on the main themes of Ireland's ...
Lyricism and Happiness in the Autobiographical Writings of Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Hollard, Thoron Lincoln (Victoria University of Wellington, 1978)

One aspect of Rousseau's prose style, not only in La Nouvelle Heloise but also in the autobiographical writings, particularly the Confessions and the Reveries du promeneur solitaire, is his lyricism. While Rousseau's ...
'To the Curious Enquirer': Depictions of Pacific Peoples in Popular Illustrated Books from Paris and London c.1775-1810

Morrell, Vivienne Ruth (Victoria University of Wellington, 2010)

This study considers a range of illustrated encyclopaedias published in London and Paris in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries depicting peoples of the Pacific or Oceania. Using a framework of curiosity, ...
William Davenport, the Slave Trade, and Merchant Enterprise in Eighteenth-Century Liverpool

Radburn, Nicholas James (Victoria University of Wellington, 2009)

This thesis examines the business history of William Davenport (1725-1797), a Liverpool slave trading merchant from 1748 until 1786. Through an examination of a recently discovered collection of Davenport's business papers ...