Название: Distant Dominion: Britain and the Northwest Coast of North America, 1579-1809
Автор: Barry M. Gough
Издательство: Univ of British Columbia Pr
ISBN: 0774801131
Год: 1980
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 215
Размер: 21,5 МБ
Язык: Английский

The voyages of Cook and Vancouver heralded a vast influx of irrepressible white men.... They brought with them their morals, ideologies, knowledge, technology, plants and animals. They also brought diseases, rum and guns....powers to build and powers to destroy. Until the 1700's, the Northwest Coast of North America stood largely apart from the civilized world. Formidable mountain barriers and remoteness from Atlantic sea lanes kept the territory outside the orbit of emerging European empires. In the late 18th and early 19th centuries, however, Britain, Spain, France, Russsia, and the United States vied for control of this promising new frontier. Three of history's greatest mariners -- Sir Francis Drake, Captain James Cook, and Captain George Vancouver -- spearheaded British expeditions of discovery and trade to the Northwest coast.












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