General Background Material, Enlightenment

Brewer, John.  The pleasures of the imagination : English culture in the eighteenth century.
New York : Farrar Straus Giroux, 1997.

Butt, John Everett. The age of Johnson, 1740-1789.
Oxford : Clarendon Press
1990, c1979. pp. 244-265

Kramnick, Isaac, ed. The Portable Enlightenment Reader.
Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1995

Pagliaro, Harold E. Racism In The Eighteenth Century. Studies in Eighteenth Century Culture, Volume 3.
Cleveland and London: Case Western Reserve University Press, 1973.

Porter, Roy and G.S. Rousseau, eds. Exoticism in the Enlightenment.
Manchester and New York, Manchester University Press/St. Martin's Press, 1990.

Porter, Roy. The Enlightenment.
Houndmills: Macmillan, 1990.

Sambrook, James. The Eighteenth Century. The Intellectual and Cultural Context of English Literature, 1700 - 1789.
London: Longman, 1986.

Vyverberg, Henry. Human Nature, Cultural Diversity, And The French Enlightenment.
New York/Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1989.
 

General Background Material, Exploration, Colonialism, Post-Colonialism

Banton, Michael. Racial Theories.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1987.

Hannaford, Ivan. Race. The History of an Idea in the West.
Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996.

Said, Edward W.
Orientalism.
New York : Vintage Books, c1994.
 

General Background Material - Anthropology
 

Gell, Alfred. Wrapping In Images. Tattooing in Polynesia.
Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1993.
 
 

General Background Material, Pacific/Contemporary

Baré, Jean-François. Le Malentendu Pacifique. Des Premières Rencontres Entre Polynésiens Et Anglais Et De Ce Qui S'Ensuivit Avec Les Français Jusqu' Â Nos Jours.
Paris: Hachette, 1985.

Best, Elsdon. Spiritual And Mental Concepts Of The Maori.
Wellington: R.E. Owen, 1954.

Frost, Alan and Jane Samson, eds. Pacific Empires. Essays in Honour of Glyndwr Williams.
Vancouver: UBC press, 1999.

Goetzfridt,, Nicholas J. Indigenous Literature Of Oceania. A Survey of Criticism and Interpretation.
Westport: Greenwood Press, 1995.

Hobley, Leonard Frank. Exploring the Pacific.
London: Methuen, 1957.

Lewis, David. We, the Navigators. The Ancient Art of Landfinding in the Pacific. 2nd ed.
Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1994

Quanchi, Max and Alaima Talu, eds. Messy Entanglements. The Papers of the 10th Pacific History Association Conference, Tarawa, Kiribati.
Brisbane: Pacific History Association, 1995.

Quanchi, Max. Pacific People and Change. The Pacific in the 20th Century.
Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 1991.

Salmond, Anne. Two Worlds. First Meetings Between Maori and Europeans. 1642 - 1772.
Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1991.

Schweizer, Niklaus R. Turning Tide. The Ebb and Flow of Hawaiian Nationality.
Berne: Peter Lang, 1999.

Stead, C.K. The Faber Book of Contemporary South Pacific Stories.
London: Faber, 1994.

Stevenson, Robert Louis. Travels in Hawaii. Ed. A. Grove Day.
Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1973.

Theroux, Paul. The Happy Isles of Oceania. Paddling The Pacific.
New York: G.P. Putnam's, 1992.

Thomas, Nicholas. Colonialism's culture : anthropology, travel, and government.
Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1994.

Thomas, Nicholas. Entangled objects : exchange, material culture, and colonialism in the
Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 1991.

Thomas, Nicholas. In Oceania : visions, artifacts, histories.
Duke University Press, 1997.

Thomas, Nicholas. Marquesan societies : inequality and political transformation in eastern
Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1990.

Thomas, Nicholas. Oceanic art.
New York: Thames and Hudson, 1995.

Thomas, Nicholas. Out Of Time. History and Evolution in Anthropological Discourse.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1989.

Twain, Mark. Letters from Hawaii. Ed. A. Grove Day.
Honolulu: University pf Hawaii Press, 1966.

Wood, Houston. Displacing Natives. The Rhetorical Production of Hawai'I.
Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield, 1999.

Wright, Harrison M. New Zealand, 1769 - 1840. Early Years of Western Contact.
Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1959.
 
 

Specialized Material (Art)

Joppien, Rüdiger and Bernard Smith. The Art of Captain Cook's Voyages. 4 vols.
New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1985-1988.

Kaeppler, Adrienne L. Artificial Curiosities. An exposition of native manufactures collected on the three Pacific Voyages of Captain James Cook, R.N. At the Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum, January 18, 1978 - August 31, 1978 on the occasion of the Bicentennial of the European Discovery of the Hawaiian Islands by Captain James Cook - January 18, 1778.
Honululu: Bishop Museum Press, 1978.

Kaeppler, Adrienne L. Cook Voyage Artifacts in Leningrad, Berne, and Florence Museums.
Honolulu: Bishop Museum Press, 1978.

Nordyke, Eleanor C. Pacific Images. Views from Captain Cook's Third Voyage.
Honolulu: Hawaiian Historical Society, 1999.

Teilhet, Jehanne, ed. Dimensions of Polynesia.
San Diego: Fine Arts Gallery of San Diego, 1973.

Thomas, Nicholas and Diane Losche, eds. Double Vision. Art Histories and Colonial Histories in the Pacific.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999.
 

Eighteenth century:

Babadzan, Alain. Les dépouilles des dieux. Essai sur la religion tahitienne à l'époque de la découverte.
Paris: Editions de la Maison de Sciences de l'Homme, 1993.

Beaglehole, J.C. The Life of Captain James Cook.
Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1974.

Beaglehole, J.C. The Exploration of the Pacific. Third Edition.
Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1966.

Brosse, Jacques. Great Voyages of Discovery. Circumnavigators and Scientists, 1764 - 1843.
New York/Oxford: Facts on File, 1983. (Orig. Paris: Bordas, 1983.)

Captain Cook and The South Pacific. The British Museum Yearbook 3.
London: British Museum Publications, 1979.

Clark, Thomas Blake. Omai. First Polynesian Ambassador To England.
San Francisco: Colt Press, 1940. Repr.: Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1969.

Cobbe, Hugh, ed. Cook's Voyages and Poeples of the Pacific.
London: British Museum Publications, 1979.

Dening, Greg, Mr. Bligh's Bad Language. Passion, Power and Theatre on the Bounty.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992.

O'Reilly, Patrick and Êdouard Reitman. Bibliographie de Tahiti et de la Polynésie française.
Paris: Publications de la Société des Océanistes, No.14, Musée de l'Homme, 1967.

Edmond, Rod: Representing The South Pacific. Colonial discourse from Cook to Gauguin.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997.

Edwards, Philip.  The story of the voyage : sea-narratives in eighteenth-century England.
Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1994.

Holmes, Christine, ed. Captain Cook's Second Voyage: The Journals of Lieutenants Elliot and Pickersgill.
London: Caliban, 1984.

Lincoln, Margarette, ed. Science And Exploration In The Pacific. European voyages to the souther oceans in the eighteenth century.
London: Boydell, 1998.

Ferdon, Edwin N. Early Tahiti As The Explorers Saw It.
Tucson: The University of Arizona Press, 1981.

Goldman, Irving. Ancient Polynesian Society.
Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, 1970.

Lamb, Jonathan, Robert P. Maccubbin and David F. Morrill, eds. The South Pacific in the Eighteenth Century: Narratives and Myths. Papers from the Ninth David Nichol Smith Memorial Seminar. Eighteenth-Century Life. Volume 18, n.s., 3 (November 1994).

Levy, Robert I. Tahitians. Mind and Experience in the Society Islands.
Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 1973.

O'Brian, Patrick. Joseph Banks. A Life.
Boston: Godine, 1993.

Schweizer, Niklaus. "' At Last He Fell Asleep': Choris, Chamisso and Kamehameha I of Hawai'I." Across the Oceans. Studies from East to West in Honor of Richard K. Seymour. Ed. Irmengard Rauch and Cornelia Moore.
Honolulu: College of Languages, Linguistics and Literature, University of Hawai'I, 1995. 17 - 30.

Smith, Bernard. European Vision and The South Pacific 1768 - 1850.
Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1960.

Smith, Bernard. European Vision and The South Pacific. Second Edition.
New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1985.

Smith, Bernard. Imagining the Pacific. In the Wake of the Cook Voyages.
New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1992.

Stafford, Barbara Maria. Voyage into Substance. Art, Science, Nature, and the Illustrated Travel Account, 1760 - 1840.
Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 1984.

Oliver, Douglas L. Ancient Tahitian Society. 3 vols.
Honolulu: The University Press of Hawaii, 1974.

Oliver, Douglas L. The Pacific Islands. Revised ed.
Honolulu: The University Press of Hawaii, 1975.

Quanchi, Max and Ron Adams, eds. Culture Contact in the Pacific.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993.

Touchard, Michel-Claude. Les Voyages De Bougainville.
Paris: Albin Michel, 1974.

Veit, Walter, ed. Captain James Cook. Image and Impact.
Melbourne: The Hawthorne Press, 1979.
 
 

Native Sources

Henry, Teuira: Ancient Tahiti. Based on Material Recorded by J.M. Orsmond.
Honolulu: Bernice P. Bishop Museum, 1928.
(Bernice P. Bishop Museum Bulletin 48); republished New York: Kraus Reprint, 1971.
 
 

European Sources

Beaglehole, J.C. The Journals of Captain James Cook. 4 Vols.

Bougainville, Louis De. A Voyage Round The World. Trans. John Reinhold Forster.
London: Nourse & Davies, 1772. Rpt. Ridgewood: The Gregg Press, 1967.

The Early Journals And Letters Of Fanny Burney. Volume I. 1768 - 1773.  Ed. Lars Troide.
Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1988.
[pp. 172-174: Fanny's father, Charles Burney, recommends Dr. John Hawkesworth to Lord Sandwich to write up the account of Cook's first voyage.]

The Early Journals And Letters Of Fanny Burney. Volume II. 1774-1777.  Ed. Lars Troide.
Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1990.
[pp. 40-45: an account of her brother's first reports upon returning with Furneaux from the second voyage; lacuna where the Grass Cove incident should have occured, in which Lieutenant Rowe and his eight men were killed and eaten by Maori]

Burney, James. A Chronological Hisotry of the Voyages and Dicoveries in the South Sea or Pacific Ocean. London, 1817
( Bibliotheca Australiana #7).
N. Israel/Amsterdam//Da Capo Press/New York 1967

Chamisso, Adelbert von. A Voyage Around The World With The Romanzow Exploring Expedition In The Years 1815 - 1818 In The Brig Rurik, Captain Otto Von Kotzebue. Trans. and ed. Henry Kratz.
Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1986.

Cook, James. A Journal Of A Voyage Round The World In His Majesty's Ship Endeavour, In The Years 1768, 1769, 1770, and 1771;...
London: Becket and De Hondt, 1771. Repr. Amsterdam/New York: N. Israel/Da Capo Press, 1967 (Bibliotheca Australiana #14).

Cook, James. A Voyage Towards The South Pole, And Round The World. 2 vols.
London: Strahan & Cadell, 1777. Repr. Adelaide: Libraries Borad of South Australia, 1970 (Australiana Facsimile Editions No. 191).

Dunmore, John, ed. The Expedition Of The St Jean - Baptiste To The Pacific. 1769-1770.
London: The Hakluyt Society, 1981. (Hakluyt Society, second series; 158).

Ellis, William. Polynesian Researches. Society Islands.
Rutland, Vermont: Tuttle, 1969.

Forster, George. A voyage round the world. Edited by Nicholas Thomas and Oliver Berghof ; assisted by Jennifer Newell.
Honolulu : University of Hawai'i Press, 2000.

Forster, Johann Reinhold. Observations made during a voyage round the world. Edited by Nicholas Thomas, Harriet Guest, and Michael Dettelbach ; with a linguistics appendix by Karl H. Rensch.
Honolulu : University of Hawai'i Press, c1996.

Hoare, Michael. The Resolution Journal Of Johann Reinhold Forster. 1772 - 1775. 4 Vols.
London: The Hakluyt Society, 1982.

Joubert, Joseph. Essais 1779 - 1821. Ed. Rémy Tessonneau.
Paris: Nizet, 1983.

Marra, John. Journal Of The Resolution's Voyage In 1771-1775.
London: Newberry, 1775. Repr. Amsterdam/New York: N.Israel/Da Capo Press, 1967 (Bibliotheca Australiana #15).

Oakes, Charlotte and Ronald Louis Silveira De Braganza, eds. The Hill Collection Of Pacific Voyages. 2 vols. (?)
San Diego: University Library, University of California, San Diego, 1974.

Parkinson, Sydney. A Journal Of A Voyage To The South Seas, In His Majesty's Ship, The Endeavour.
London: Richardson & Urquhart, 1773. Repr. Adelaide: Libraries Board of South Australia, 1972 (Australiana Facsimile Editions No. A34).

Robertson, George. The Discovery Of Tahiti. A Journal of The Second Voyage of H.M.S. Dolphin Round The World, Under The Command Of Captain Wallis, R.N., In The Years 1766, 1767 And 1768. Ed. Hugh Carrington.
London: The Hakluyt Society, 1948 (Haklyut Society, second series, No. 98).

Sparrman, Anders, 1748-1820. A voyage to the Cape of Good Hope, towards the Antarctic polar circle, and round the world: but chiefly into the country of the Hottentots and Caffres, from the year 1772, to 1776. London : G.G.J. and J. Robinson, 1786.