John GascoigneJohn Gascoigne, Emeritus Professor, taught history at the University of New South Wales from 1980 until 2016. His previous books include Encountering the Pacific in the Age of the Enlightenment (Cambridge, 2014), which won the NSW Premier's General Hstory Prize in 2014, and Science in the Service of Empire: Joseph Banks, the British State and the Uses of Science in the Age of Revolution (Cambridge, 1998). Read More Read Less