Samson, Jane
Dr. Jane Samson
(Professor)
PhD (History), 1994.
University of London, UK.
MA (History), 1986.
University of Victoria, Canada.
BA (Classical Studies and History), 1983.
University of Victoria, Canada.
2-57B Tory Building
University of Alberta
Edmonton AB T6G 2H4
Tel. (780) 492-2966
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Welcome to my homepage, and to the history of British exploration and empire. I teach courses on these topics, and on world history, at the University of Alberta in Edmonton,Alberta, Canada. One of my world history lectures, "The Eighteenth-Century Maritime World", discusses how and why Britain became a global maritime power.
I have created some British Empire pages, which will provide you with links to all aspects of British imperial history. If you know about links that you'd like to see included here, please let me know. I want this gateway to be as extensive and multidisciplinary as possible. I'd also like to thank the many people who have linked this site to their own educational or personal pages; your support helps make these pages more comprehensive and accessible.
In the meantime, if you're wondering about my academic background, or looking for my address at U of A, go to my CV.
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HIST 112, The Modern World
Editor, British imperial strategies in the Pacific, 1750-1900 (Aldershot: Ashgate Press, 2003). Editor, The British Empire, Oxford Readers Series (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001). Editor with Alan Frost, Pacific Empires: Essays in Honour of Glyndwr Williams (Melbourne: Melbourne University Press and Vancouver: UBC Press, 1999). Imperial Benevolence: Making British Authority in the Pacific Islands (Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press and London: Curzon Press, 1998). BOOK CHAPTERS "Ethnology and Theology: Nineteenth-Century Mission Dilemmas in the South Pacific" in Brian Stanley, ed., Christian Missions and the Enlightenment (London: Curzon Press, 2001), pp. 99-122. “Too Zealous Guardians? The Royal Navy and the south Pacific Labour Trade” in David Killingray and David Omissi, eds., Guardians of Empire (Manchester: University of Manchester Press, 1999), pp. 70-90. “An Empire of Science: The Survey Voyage of HMS Herald and British Ambitions in the Americas, 1845-1851", in Frost and Samson, Pacific Empires, pp. 69-86. REFEREED ARTICLES: “Are you what you believe?” in A.J. Ballantyne, ed., Orientalism to Ornamentalism: history, difference, empire, special issue of Journal of Colonialism and Colonial History 3:1 (April 2002), in press. "British Authority or `Mere Theory'? Colonial Law and Native People on Vancouver Island," Western Legal History 11:1 (1999), pp. 39-63. "`That Extensive Enterprise': HMS Herald's North Pacific Survey," in Roy MacLeod, ed., Discovery, Exploration, and Representation: Western Science in the Pacific, special issue of Pacific Science 52:4 (1998), pp. 287-293. “Imperial Benevolence: The Royal Navy and the Labour Trade, 1867-1872,” The Great Circle 18:1 (1997), pp. 14-29. “British Voices and Indigenous Rights: Debating Aboriginal Legal Status in Nineteenth-Century Australia and Canada,” Cultures of the Commonwealth 2 (1996-97), pp. 5-16. “Rescuing Fijian Women? The British Anti-Slavery Proclamation of 1852,” Journal of Pacific History 30:1 (1995), pp. 22-38. “The 1834 Cruise of HMS Alligator: The Bible and the Flag,” The Northern Mariner 3:4 (1993), pp. 37-47. “Lord Mansfield and Negotiable Instruments,” Dalhousie Law Journal 11:3 (1988), pp. 931-945. |