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Trade, Time, and the Calculus of Risk in Early Pacific Travel Writing

Trade, Time, and the Calculus of Risk in Early Pacific Travel Writing miChelle burnham  Santa Clara University Trade, Time, and the Calculus of Risk in Early Pacic fi Travel Writing In the 2005 Common-p lace issue on early America and the Pacific, historians Edward Gray and Alan Taylor observe that the Atlantic studies paradigm, which moves “beyond nations and states as the defining sub- jects of historical understanding, turning instead to large scale processes” is also particularly “useful for understanding Pacific history” since “dis- ease, migration, trade, and war effected [sic] the Pacific in much the way they effected [sic] the Atlantic.” A similar transfer of the Atlantic world model to the Pacific informs David Igler’s insistence that, like the Atlan- tic, the Pacific world was “international before it became national.” 1 Igler notes that most scholarship on the Pacific has instead relied, however, on a national framework, leaving “too little of this work . . . cast in a compara- tive, transnational, or transoceanic mold” (par 5). As this critique suggests, it is time to consider not just the exchanges and processes within each of these oceanic worlds but between them as well. In this essay, I examine late eighteenth- and early nineteenth- century Pacific travel writing in precisely such http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Early American Literature University of North Carolina Press

Trade, Time, and the Calculus of Risk in Early Pacific Travel Writing

Burnham, Michelle.
Early American Literature , Volume 46 (3) – Nov 10, 2011
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miChelle burnham  Santa Clara University Trade, Time, and the Calculus of Risk in Early Pacic fi Travel Writing In the 2005 Common-p lace issue on early America and the Pacific, historians Edward Gray and Alan Taylor observe that the Atlantic studies paradigm, which moves “beyond nations and states as the defining sub- jects of historical understanding, turning instead to large scale processes” is also particularly “useful for understanding Pacific history” since “dis- ease, migration, trade, and war effected [sic] the Pacific in much the way they effected [sic] the Atlantic.” A similar transfer of the Atlantic world model to the Pacific informs David Igler’s insistence that, like the Atlan- tic, the Pacific world was “international before it became national.” 1 Igler notes that most scholarship on the Pacific has instead relied, however, on a national framework, leaving “too little of this work . . . cast in a compara- tive, transnational, or transoceanic mold” (par 5). As this critique suggests, it is time to consider not just the exchanges and processes within each of these oceanic worlds but between them as well. In this essay, I examine late eighteenth- and early nineteenth- century Pacific travel writing in precisely such

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