The Eighteenth-Century Maritime World:
Suggested Readings
General:
- Hattendorf, John B., ed. The Eighteenth Century and the Classic Age of Sail, vol. 2 of Maritime History (Malabar, FL: Krieger Publishing, 1997).
- P.J. Marshall and Glyndwr Williams, The Great Map of Mankind: British Perceptions of the World in the Age of Enlightenment (London and Toronto: J.M. Dent and Sons, 1982).
- Parry, J.H. Trade and Dominion: The European Oversea Empires in the Eighteenth Century (London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1971.
On the "problem of longitude":
- David S. Landes, Revolution in Time: Clocks and the Making of the Modern World (Cambridge MA: Harvard University Press, 1983).
- Sobel, Dava. Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time (1996).
On Pacific exploration:
- Greg Dening, Mr. Bligh's Bad Language: Passion, Power and Theatre on the Bounty (Cambridge: Canto, 1994).
- Robin Fisher and Hugh Johnston, eds., From Maps to Metaphors: The Pacific World of George Vancouver (Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, 1993).
- O.K.H. Spate, The Pacific since Magellan: III Paradise Found and Lost (London: Routledge, 1988).
- Glyndwr Williams, The Great South Sea: English Voyages and Encounters, 1570-1750 (New Haven: Yale University press, 1997).
- Lynne Withey, Voyages of Discovery: Captain Cook and the Exploration of the Pacific (London: Hutchinson, 1987).
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