Overview
- Provides the first in-depth study of the Indigenous Australian objects acquired by the Royal Navy from 1795-1855 now in the British Museum
- Explores the pathways by which objects reached the British Museum, tracing the stages of a typical naval voyage to Australia
- Considers understandings of Indigenous Australian peoples' reactions to British visitors
Part of the book series: Palgrave Studies in Pacific History (PASPH)
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Table of contents (11 chapters)
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Departures
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Coastal Collecting
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Disembarkation
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Reviews
—Maria Nugent, Australian National University, Australia
“Daniel Simpson's imaginatively researched book draws attention to previously unexplored records and archives vital to the understanding of ethnographic collecting from Australia in the nineteenth century. This book will be of great interest to all those interested in comparative histories of collecting and material culture, and a key resource for Australian researchers now engaged in tracing Indigenous artefacts in British collections.”
—Nicholas Thomas, University of Cambridge, UK
“Daniel Simpson’s history of Indigenous objects collected by British naval expeditions around the coast of Australia is genuinely eye-opening. His focus on the scientific, governmental and spatial contexts of expeditionary collecting provides a foundation for future scholarship in the field. And his achievement in tracing the circulation of museum objects through institutional and personal networks adds substantially to our understanding of their provenance. This is a major work of direct relevance to historical and contemporary debates over museum collections.”
—Felix Driver, Royal Holloway, University of London, UK
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Royal Navy in Indigenous Australia, 1795–1855
Book Subtitle: Maritime Encounters and British Museum Collections
Authors: Daniel Simpson
Series Title: Palgrave Studies in Pacific History
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-60097-6
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: History, History (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-60096-9Published: 13 January 2021
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-60099-0Published: 13 January 2022
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-60097-6Published: 12 January 2021
Series ISSN: 2947-924X
Series E-ISSN: 2947-9258
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXIII, 305
Number of Illustrations: 3 b/w illustrations, 19 illustrations in colour
Topics: Australasian History, History of Britain and Ireland, Imperialism and Colonialism, History of Science