The naturalist and his 'beautiful islands' : Charles Morris Woodford in the Western Pacific /

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"In January 1890 the account of three visits to the Solomon Islands made between 1886 and 1889 by the young English naturalist, Charles Morris Woodford, was published in London, to some critical acclaim, by George Philip and Sons. With a typical late-Victorian eye for romance in the exotic, and...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Lawrence, David (David Russell) (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Canberra, A.C.T. : ANU Press, [2014]
Subjects:
Woodford, C. M., > 1852-1927.
Woodford, C. M., > 1852-1927
Great Britain. > Colonial Office > Officials and employees > Biography.
Great Britain. > Colonial Office.
Ethnology > Solomon Islands.
Natural history > Solomon Islands.
Colonial administrators > Solomon Islands > Biography.
Ethnologie > Salomon.
Sciences naturelles > Salomon.
Administrateurs coloniaux > Salomon > Biographies.
Biography and True Stories.
Biography: general.
Biography: historical, political and military.
NATURE > Environmental Conservation & Protection.
Colonial administrators.
Employees.
Ethnology.
Natural history.
Travel.
Solomon Islands > Description and travel.
Salomon > Descriptions et voyages.
Solomon Islands.
Naturalist
Solomon Islands
Asia Pacific
Natural History
collective biographies.
Biographies.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Preliminary pages; Acknowledgments; Note on the text; Introduction; 1. Early life and education; 2. Pacific journeys; 3. Commerce, trade and labour; 4. A naturalist in the Solomon Islands; 5. Liberalism, Imperialism and colonial expansion; 6. The British Solomon IslandsProtectorate: Colonialism without capital; 7. Expansion of the Protectorate 1898-1900; 8. The new social order; 9. The plantation economy; 10. The critical question of labour; 11. Woodford and the Western Pacific High Commission; Conclusion; Bibliography.

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