European Vision and the South Pacific

by Bernard Smith and Bernard Smith

Book Overview

Bernard Smith (1916-2011) was arguably Australia's greatest art historian and one of the most important humanist thinkers internationally on ideas concerning cultural contact. His European Vision and the South Pacific, first published in 1960, showed how the ideas of the Enlightenment and the empirical structuring of scientific and geographical knowledge during the great eighteenth-century voyages of discovery affected notions of identity--both...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0522876897
• ISBN13: 9780522876895
• Release Date: October 2022
• Publisher: Melbourne University
• Length: 380 Pages
• Weight: 2.91 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 8.6" x 10.6"