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2021, 'The Pacific as a Laboratory for Natural HIstory', in Fornasiero J; West-Sooby J (ed.), 'Roaming Freely Throughout the Universe' Nicolas Baudin's Voyage to Australia and the Pursuit of Science, Wakefield Press, Adelaide
,2019, 'Absolutism', in SCIENCE AND THE STATE: FROM THE SCIENTIFIC REVOLUTION TO WORLD WAR II, CAMBRIDGE UNIV PRESS, pp. 31 - 53, http://gateway.webofknowledge.com/gateway/Gateway.cgi?GWVersion=2&SrcApp=PARTNER_APP&SrcAuth=LinksAMR&KeyUT=WOS:000604757900004&DestLinkType=FullRecord&DestApp=ALL_WOS&UsrCustomerID=891bb5ab6ba270e68a29b250adbe88d1
,2019, 'An Expanding State, 1850-1914', in SCIENCE AND THE STATE: FROM THE SCIENTIFIC REVOLUTION TO WORLD WAR II, CAMBRIDGE UNIV PRESS, pp. 98 - 133, http://gateway.webofknowledge.com/gateway/Gateway.cgi?GWVersion=2&SrcApp=PARTNER_APP&SrcAuth=LinksAMR&KeyUT=WOS:000604757900007&DestLinkType=FullRecord&DestApp=ALL_WOS&UsrCustomerID=891bb5ab6ba270e68a29b250adbe88d1
,2019, 'From War to War, 1914-1945', in SCIENCE AND THE STATE: FROM THE SCIENTIFIC REVOLUTION TO WORLD WAR II, CAMBRIDGE UNIV PRESS, pp. 134 - 186, http://gateway.webofknowledge.com/gateway/Gateway.cgi?GWVersion=2&SrcApp=PARTNER_APP&SrcAuth=LinksAMR&KeyUT=WOS:000604757900008&DestLinkType=FullRecord&DestApp=ALL_WOS&UsrCustomerID=891bb5ab6ba270e68a29b250adbe88d1
,2019, 'Revolution, Reaction and Reform, 1776-1850', in SCIENCE AND THE STATE: FROM THE SCIENTIFIC REVOLUTION TO WORLD WAR II, CAMBRIDGE UNIV PRESS, pp. 71 - 97, http://gateway.webofknowledge.com/gateway/Gateway.cgi?GWVersion=2&SrcApp=PARTNER_APP&SrcAuth=LinksAMR&KeyUT=WOS:000604757900006&DestLinkType=FullRecord&DestApp=ALL_WOS&UsrCustomerID=891bb5ab6ba270e68a29b250adbe88d1
,2019, 'Rivals to Absolutism', in SCIENCE AND THE STATE: FROM THE SCIENTIFIC REVOLUTION TO WORLD WAR II, CAMBRIDGE UNIV PRESS, pp. 54 - 70, http://gateway.webofknowledge.com/gateway/Gateway.cgi?GWVersion=2&SrcApp=PARTNER_APP&SrcAuth=LinksAMR&KeyUT=WOS:000604757900005&DestLinkType=FullRecord&DestApp=ALL_WOS&UsrCustomerID=891bb5ab6ba270e68a29b250adbe88d1
,2019, 'Science and the State From the Scientific Revolution to World War II Epilogue', in SCIENCE AND THE STATE: FROM THE SCIENTIFIC REVOLUTION TO WORLD WAR II, CAMBRIDGE UNIV PRESS, pp. 204 - 219, http://gateway.webofknowledge.com/gateway/Gateway.cgi?GWVersion=2&SrcApp=PARTNER_APP&SrcAuth=LinksAMR&KeyUT=WOS:000604757900010&DestLinkType=FullRecord&DestApp=ALL_WOS&UsrCustomerID=891bb5ab6ba270e68a29b250adbe88d1
,2019, 'Science and the State From the Scientific Revolution to World War II Introduction', in SCIENCE AND THE STATE: FROM THE SCIENTIFIC REVOLUTION TO WORLD WAR II, CAMBRIDGE UNIV PRESS, pp. 1 - 10, http://gateway.webofknowledge.com/gateway/Gateway.cgi?GWVersion=2&SrcApp=PARTNER_APP&SrcAuth=LinksAMR&KeyUT=WOS:000604757900002&DestLinkType=FullRecord&DestApp=ALL_WOS&UsrCustomerID=891bb5ab6ba270e68a29b250adbe88d1
,2019, 'Science and the State From the Scientific Revolution to World War II Preface', in SCIENCE AND THE STATE: FROM THE SCIENTIFIC REVOLUTION TO WORLD WAR II, CAMBRIDGE UNIV PRESS, pp. XI - +, http://gateway.webofknowledge.com/gateway/Gateway.cgi?GWVersion=2&SrcApp=PARTNER_APP&SrcAuth=LinksAMR&KeyUT=WOS:000604757900001&DestLinkType=FullRecord&DestApp=ALL_WOS&UsrCustomerID=891bb5ab6ba270e68a29b250adbe88d1
,2019, 'Science, the State and Globalisation', in SCIENCE AND THE STATE: FROM THE SCIENTIFIC REVOLUTION TO WORLD WAR II, CAMBRIDGE UNIV PRESS, pp. 187 - 203, http://gateway.webofknowledge.com/gateway/Gateway.cgi?GWVersion=2&SrcApp=PARTNER_APP&SrcAuth=LinksAMR&KeyUT=WOS:000604757900009&DestLinkType=FullRecord&DestApp=ALL_WOS&UsrCustomerID=891bb5ab6ba270e68a29b250adbe88d1
,2019, 'The Renaissance Monarchy', in SCIENCE AND THE STATE: FROM THE SCIENTIFIC REVOLUTION TO WORLD WAR II, CAMBRIDGE UNIV PRESS, pp. 11 - 30, http://gateway.webofknowledge.com/gateway/Gateway.cgi?GWVersion=2&SrcApp=PARTNER_APP&SrcAuth=LinksAMR&KeyUT=WOS:000604757900003&DestLinkType=FullRecord&DestApp=ALL_WOS&UsrCustomerID=891bb5ab6ba270e68a29b250adbe88d1
,2015, 'Background to the Endeavour voyage’', in Chambers N (ed.), Endeavouring Banks Exploring Collections from the Endeavour Voyage 1768-1771, Paul Halberton, London, pp. 21 - 26
,2015, 'James Cook, Navigator and Explorer: the Pacific Experience, 1768-1776', in Barnett J; Nicandri D (ed.), Arctic Ambitions : Captain Cook and the Northwest Passage, University of Washington Press, Seattle, pp. 3 - 19, http://www.washington.edu/uwpress/search/books/BARCOO.html
,2015, 'Cross-cultural knowledge exchange in the age of the Enlightenment.', in Konishi S; Nugent M; Shellam T (ed.), Indigenous intermediaries : new perspectives on exploration archives, ANU EPress, Canberra, pp. 131 - 146
,2015, 'Navigating the Pacific from Bougainville to Dumont d'Urville: French approaches to determining longitude, 1766-1840', in Dunn R; Higgitt R (ed.), Navigational Enterprises in Europe and its Empires, 1730-1850, Palgrave, Houndmills, Basingstoke, pp. 180 - 197
,2014, 'Belief', in ENCOUNTERING THE PACIFIC IN THE AGE OF THE ENLIGHTENMENT, CAMBRIDGE UNIV PRESS, pp. 355 - 387, http://gateway.webofknowledge.com/gateway/Gateway.cgi?GWVersion=2&SrcApp=PARTNER_APP&SrcAuth=LinksAMR&KeyUT=WOS:000337238600012&DestLinkType=FullRecord&DestApp=ALL_WOS&UsrCustomerID=891bb5ab6ba270e68a29b250adbe88d1
,2014, 'Belief', in ENCOUNTERING THE PACIFIC IN THE AGE OF THE ENLIGHTENMENT, CAMBRIDGE UNIV PRESS, pp. 183 - 216, http://gateway.webofknowledge.com/gateway/Gateway.cgi?GWVersion=2&SrcApp=PARTNER_APP&SrcAuth=LinksAMR&KeyUT=WOS:000337238600008&DestLinkType=FullRecord&DestApp=ALL_WOS&UsrCustomerID=891bb5ab6ba270e68a29b250adbe88d1
,2014, 'Belief', in ENCOUNTERING THE PACIFIC IN THE AGE OF THE ENLIGHTENMENT, CAMBRIDGE UNIV PRESS, pp. 66 - 86, http://gateway.webofknowledge.com/gateway/Gateway.cgi?GWVersion=2&SrcApp=PARTNER_APP&SrcAuth=LinksAMR&KeyUT=WOS:000337238600004&DestLinkType=FullRecord&DestApp=ALL_WOS&UsrCustomerID=891bb5ab6ba270e68a29b250adbe88d1
,2014, 'Exploration, empire and encounter', in ENCOUNTERING THE PACIFIC IN THE AGE OF THE ENLIGHTENMENT, CAMBRIDGE UNIV PRESS, pp. 129 - 182, http://gateway.webofknowledge.com/gateway/Gateway.cgi?GWVersion=2&SrcApp=PARTNER_APP&SrcAuth=LinksAMR&KeyUT=WOS:000337238600007&DestLinkType=FullRecord&DestApp=ALL_WOS&UsrCustomerID=891bb5ab6ba270e68a29b250adbe88d1
,2014, 'Exploration, empire and encounter', in ENCOUNTERING THE PACIFIC IN THE AGE OF THE ENLIGHTENMENT, CAMBRIDGE UNIV PRESS, pp. 25 - 65, http://gateway.webofknowledge.com/gateway/Gateway.cgi?GWVersion=2&SrcApp=PARTNER_APP&SrcAuth=LinksAMR&KeyUT=WOS:000337238600003&DestLinkType=FullRecord&DestApp=ALL_WOS&UsrCustomerID=891bb5ab6ba270e68a29b250adbe88d1
,2014, 'Exploration, empire and encounter', in ENCOUNTERING THE PACIFIC IN THE AGE OF THE ENLIGHTENMENT, CAMBRIDGE UNIV PRESS, pp. 299 - 354, http://gateway.webofknowledge.com/gateway/Gateway.cgi?GWVersion=2&SrcApp=PARTNER_APP&SrcAuth=LinksAMR&KeyUT=WOS:000337238600011&DestLinkType=FullRecord&DestApp=ALL_WOS&UsrCustomerID=891bb5ab6ba270e68a29b250adbe88d1
,2014, 'Knowledge', in ENCOUNTERING THE PACIFIC IN THE AGE OF THE ENLIGHTENMENT, CAMBRIDGE UNIV PRESS, pp. 247 - 294, http://gateway.webofknowledge.com/gateway/Gateway.cgi?GWVersion=2&SrcApp=PARTNER_APP&SrcAuth=LinksAMR&KeyUT=WOS:000337238600010&DestLinkType=FullRecord&DestApp=ALL_WOS&UsrCustomerID=891bb5ab6ba270e68a29b250adbe88d1
,2014, 'Knowledge', in ENCOUNTERING THE PACIFIC IN THE AGE OF THE ENLIGHTENMENT, CAMBRIDGE UNIV PRESS, pp. 101 - 124, http://gateway.webofknowledge.com/gateway/Gateway.cgi?GWVersion=2&SrcApp=PARTNER_APP&SrcAuth=LinksAMR&KeyUT=WOS:000337238600006&DestLinkType=FullRecord&DestApp=ALL_WOS&UsrCustomerID=891bb5ab6ba270e68a29b250adbe88d1
,2014, 'Wealth', in ENCOUNTERING THE PACIFIC IN THE AGE OF THE ENLIGHTENMENT, CAMBRIDGE UNIV PRESS, pp. 87 - 100, http://gateway.webofknowledge.com/gateway/Gateway.cgi?GWVersion=2&SrcApp=PARTNER_APP&SrcAuth=LinksAMR&KeyUT=WOS:000337238600005&DestLinkType=FullRecord&DestApp=ALL_WOS&UsrCustomerID=891bb5ab6ba270e68a29b250adbe88d1
,2014, 'Wealth', in ENCOUNTERING THE PACIFIC IN THE AGE OF THE ENLIGHTENMENT, CAMBRIDGE UNIV PRESS, pp. 217 - 246, http://gateway.webofknowledge.com/gateway/Gateway.cgi?GWVersion=2&SrcApp=PARTNER_APP&SrcAuth=LinksAMR&KeyUT=WOS:000337238600009&DestLinkType=FullRecord&DestApp=ALL_WOS&UsrCustomerID=891bb5ab6ba270e68a29b250adbe88d1
,2014, 'Wealth', in ENCOUNTERING THE PACIFIC IN THE AGE OF THE ENLIGHTENMENT, CAMBRIDGE UNIV PRESS, pp. 388 - 417, http://gateway.webofknowledge.com/gateway/Gateway.cgi?GWVersion=2&SrcApp=PARTNER_APP&SrcAuth=LinksAMR&KeyUT=WOS:000337238600013&DestLinkType=FullRecord&DestApp=ALL_WOS&UsrCustomerID=891bb5ab6ba270e68a29b250adbe88d1
,2013, 'Religion and empire in the South Seas in the first half of the nineteenth century’', in Aldrich R (ed.), The Routledge History of Western Empires, Routledge, London, pp. 439 - 453
,2013, 'Crossing the Pillars of Hercules: Francis Bacon, the Scientific Revolution and the New World', in International Archives of the History of Ideas/Archives Internationales d'Histoire des Idees, pp. 217 - 237, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-4807-1_9
,2013, 'Colonial Science and Technology', in Macintyre S; Bashford A (ed.), The Cambridge History of Australia Volume 1, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK, pp. 438 - 461
,2013, 'Crossing the Pillars of Hercules: Francis Bacon, the Scientific Revolution and the New World', in Gal O; Chen-Morris R (ed.), Science in the Age of the Baroque, Springer, Drodrecht, pp. 217 - 238, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-4807-1
,2013, 'The globe encompassed; France and Pacific convergences in the age of the Enlightenment', in WestSooby J (ed.), Discovery and empire. The French in the South Seas, University of Adelaide Press, Adelaide, pp. 17 - 40, http://www.adelaide.edu.au/press
,2011, 'Introduction: The Rise and Fall of Christendom', in Church and state in old and new worlds, Brill, Leiden, pp. 1 - 27
,2011, 'Science and the British Empire from its Beginnings to 1850', in Bennett B; Hodge JM (ed.), Science and Empire. Knowledge and Networks of Science across the British Empire, 1800-1970,, Palgrave Macmillan, Houndmills, pp. 47 - 67
,2010, 'The Religious Thought of Francis Bacon', in Cusack CM; Hartney C (ed.), Religion and Retributive Logic. Essays in Honour of Professor Garry W. Trompf, Brill, Leiden, pp. 209 - 228
,2008, 'What are Allee effects?', in ALLEE EFFECTS IN ECOLOGY AND CONSERVATION, OXFORD UNIV PRESS, pp. 1 - 17, http://gateway.webofknowledge.com/gateway/Gateway.cgi?GWVersion=2&SrcApp=PARTNER_APP&SrcAuth=LinksAMR&KeyUT=WOS:000354462400003&DestLinkType=FullRecord&DestApp=ALL_WOS&UsrCustomerID=891bb5ab6ba270e68a29b250adbe88d1
,2007, 'Preface', in Clemotte-Silvero O; Black J (ed.), The Anthropology of the Enlightenment, Edwin Mellen Press, Lewiston, pp. i - viii
,2007, 'The German Enlightenment and the Pacific', in Clemotte-Silvero O; Black J (ed.), The Anthropology of the Enlightenment, Edwin Mellen Press, Lewiston, pp. 141 - 171
,2006, 'The Study of Nature', in The Cambridge History of Eighteen Century Philosophy Volume II, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK, pp. 854 - 872
,2004, 'Erstes Kapitel: Philosophie an den britischen Universitäten und in den gelehrten Gesellschaften (trans.The teaching of philosophy within the British Universities and learned societies of the Eighteen Century)', in Holzhey H; Mudroch V (ed.), Grundriss der Geschichte der philosophie die philosophie des 18. jahrhunderts band 1 grossbritannien und nordamerika niederlande, Schwabe Verlag, Basel, pp. 5 - 45
,2004, 'Joseph Banks, mapping and the geographics of natural knowledge', in Ogborn M; Withers CWJ (ed.), Georgian geographies: essays on space, place and landscape in the eighteenth century, Manchester University Press, Manchester, pp. 151 - 173
,2003, 'Ideas of nature: natural philosophy', in Porter R (ed.), The Cambridge history of the eighteenth centure science, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, pp. 285 - 304
,2003, 'Sensible Newtonians: Nicholas Saunderson and John Colson', in Knox KC; Noakes R (ed.), From Newton to Hawking: A History of Cambridge University`s Lucasian Professors of Mathematics, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, pp. 171 - 204
,2002, 'Blumenbach, Banks, and the beginnings of anthropology at Goettingen', in Nicolaas Rupke (ed.), Goettingen and the development of the natural sciences, Wallstein Verlag, Goettingen, pp. 86 - 96
,1999, 'Empire', in An Oxford companion to the romantic age, British culture 1776-1832, Oxford University Press, Oxford, pp. 51 - 58
,1999, 'Enlightenment, cosmo-politanism and nationalism', in Britain in Europe: prospects for change, Ashgate, Aldershot, England, pp. 28 - 34
,1997, 'Articles on `Oxford` and `Cambridge`', in Britain in the Hanoverian Age: 1714-1837, Garland Publishing, NY
,1996, 'Anglican Latitudinarianism, rational dissent and political radicalism in the late Eighteenth Century`', in Enlightenment and the emergence of rational dissent, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, pp. 219 - 240
,1996, 'The ordering of nature and the ordering of empire: a commentrary in Miller DP', in Visions of Empire: Voyages, Botany and Representations of Nature, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, pp. 107 - 113
,1996, 'The scientist as patron and patriotic symbol: the changing reputation of Sir Joseph Banks', in Telling lives in science: studies in scientific biography, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, pp. 243 - 265
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