Voyages and Beaches: Pacific Encounters, 1769-1840
Author:   Alex Calder ,  Jonathan Lamb ,  Bridget Orr
Publisher:   University of Hawai'i Press
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9780824820398


Pages:   336
Publication Date:   30 April 1999
Format:   Hardback
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Voyages and Beaches: Pacific Encounters, 1769-1840


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Writing from and between a variety of disciplines, scholars from European, Polynesian and Settler backgrounds show how the Pacific reveals a more various and contradictory history than that supposed by such homogenizing metropolitan myths as the introduction of civilization to savage peoples, the general ruin of indigenous cultures by an imperial juggernaut, or the mimicry of European models by an abject population.

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Author:   Alex Calder ,  Jonathan Lamb ,  Bridget Orr
Publisher:   University of Hawai'i Press
Imprint:   University of Hawai'i Press
Dimensions:   Width: 16.30cm , Height: 2.90cm , Length: 23.50cm
Weight:   0.620kg
ISBN:  

9780824820398


ISBN 10:   0824820398
Pages:   336
Publication Date:   30 April 1999
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Awaiting stock   Availability explained
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Offers rich historical ethnographies of selected encounters between Islanders and Outlanders in the period from 1769 to 1840. . . . A collection of wonderfully nuanced, insightful and provocative essays that advances significantly the study of Pacific pasts.


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