West-Sooby, J.2013-10-092013-10-0920139781922064523http://hdl.handle.net/2440/80402Discovery and Empire is a collection of essays originating out of a symposium that was held at the State Library of South Australia on 8 July 2009. The symposium formed one of the strands of the XVIIth Biennial Conference of the Australasian Association of European Historians (6-9 July 2009), the overall theme for which was 'Europe’s Expansions and Contractions'.en© 2013 The AuthorsDiscovery and Empire: the French in the South SeasBook (edited)002013161210.20851/discovery18114