Captain Cook Bibliography
Theses
This page is part of a Captain Cook bibliography, itself a support to the Captain Cook
Encyclopaedia. The following list contains theses about James Cook or people and events
associated with him. Please let me know of any that have been missed out. The page was
last updated on 12 August 2004.
Agnew, V.H. Red feathers, white paper, blueprint: exchange and informal empire in
Georg Forster's "Voyage Round the World". Ph.D. thesis. Cardiff: University of
Wales, 1998.
Anderson, Bern. Captain George Vancouver, R.N., 1757-1798. Ph.D. thesis.
Boston: Harvard University, 1954.
Boone, Lalla R. Captain George Vancouver on the Northwest Coast. Ph.D.
thesis. Berkeley: University of California, 1940.
Brunt, Peter William. The sublime and the 'civilized' subject: History, painting,
and Cook's second voyage. Ph.D. thesis. Ithaca, New York: Cornell University,
2000.
Carney, Melissa Crimi. The Kona Field System: An interdisciplinary investigation
of the human-environmental interactions that caused the death of Captain James Cook.
M.A. thesis. Boca Raton, Florida: Florida Atlantic University, 2002.
Clayton, Daniel Wright. Islands of truth: Vancouver Island from Captain Cook to
the beginnings of colonialism. Ph.D. thesis. Vancouver: University of British
Columbia, 1995.
Cooke, J.R. The Cultures of Captain James Cook: a contextual examination of his
voyages of discovery. M.Sc. thesis. Canterbury: University of Kent, 2001.
Currie, Noel Elizabeth. Captain Cook at Nootka Sound and some questions of
colonial discourse. Ph.D. thesis. Vancouver: University of British Columbia,
1994.
Drayton, Richard Harry. Imperial science and a scientific empire: Kew Gardens
and the uses of nature, 1772-1903. Ph.D. thesis. New Haven, Connecticut: Yale
University, 1993.
Finch, G.J. The Life and literary achievements of Dr. John Hawkesworth.
Ph.D. thesis. Swansea: University of Wales, 1971.
Frost, Alan. James Cook and the early romantic imagination. Ph.D. thesis.
Rochester, New York: University of Rochester. 1969.
Gordon, Joseph Stuart. Reinhold and Georg Forster in England, 1766-1780.
Ph.D. thesis. Durham, North Carolina: Duke University, 1975.
Grazley, Robin Christine. Mapping middle-class manliness: Exploring the
construction of identity in James Cook's second voyage journals. M.A. thesis.
Victoria, British Columbia: University of Victoria, 2001.
Hegarty, N. Unruly subjects: exploration and culture contact in the South
Pacific, 1764-1775. Ph.D. thesis. Dublin: Trinity College, 1998.
Jordan, Sandra Johnson. The Life and art of John Webber, R.A.; and his
relationship to the watercolor and picturesque movements in Eighteenth Century
England. Ph.D. thesis. University of Georgia, 1991.
Keogh, Annette Maria. Found in translation: Foreign travel and linguistic
difference in the eighteenth century. Ph.D. thesis. Stanford: Stanford
University, 2002.
MacDougall, P. A Social history of Chatham Dockyard, 1770-1801. M.Phil.
thesis. XXXX: Open University, 1983.
Mckirdy, Mark Lewis. The Secret journal of Captain Cook: being the true account
of the Endeavour and her crew in the antipodes 1770. D.C.A. thesis. Wollongong:
University Of Wollongong, 1994.
Percy, C.E. The Language of Captain James Cook: some aspects of the syntax and
morphology of the `Endeavour' journal, 1768-1771. D.Phil. thesis. Oxford:
Oxford University, 1990.
Rauschenberg, Roy Anthony. Daniel Carl Solander: Eighteenth Century naturalist.
Ph.D. thesis. Urbana-Champaign: University of Illinois, 1960.
Richardson, Brian William. From longitude to empire: The articulations of place
in the voyages of Captain Cook. Ph.D. thesis. Honolulu: University of Hawai'i,
2001.
Snyder, Michael Richard. Sir Joseph Banks and commercial biology: A motivating
force in British Imperial expansion during the late eighteenth and early nineteenth
centuries. M.A. thesis. Edmonton: University of Alberta, 1994.
Stuebe, Isabel Combs. The Life and works of William Hodges. (Volumes I and II).
Ph.D. thesis. New York: New York University, 1978.
Turner, Stephen Francis. Cultural encounter, aesthetics, and the limits of
anthropology: Captain Cook and the Maori. Ph.D. thesis. Ithaca, New York:
Cornell University, 1995.
Webster, H. E. John Hawkesworth: a biography and a critical study of his work in
the periodicals. M.A. thesis. London; Birkbeck College, 1949.
West, Hugh Allen. From Tahiti to The Terror: George Forster, the literature of
travel, and social thought in the late Eighteenth Century. Ph.D. thesis. Stanford:
Stanford University, 1980.
Williams, Christiane Kuechler. The Discovery of an erotic paradise: An
investigation into the European reception of the South Pacific Islands in the
18th-century. Ph.D. thesis. (in German). Evanston, Illinois: Northwestern
University, 2001.
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