Voyages and beaches
Pacific encounters, 1769-1840
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Author
Contributions
- Calder, Alex. - Contributor
- Lamb, Jonathan, 1945- - Contributor
- Orr, Bridget. - Contributor
- David Nichol Smith Memorial Seminar (9th : 1993 : University of Auckland) - Contributor
Publication
1999 - University of Hawai'i Press, Honolulu, Hawaii
Language
English
Word Count
86,000 words, Guess
Page Count
344 pages
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL380235M
- ISBN-100824820398
- OCLC Control Number39812109
- OCLC Control Numbervoyagesbeachespa0000unse
- Library of Congress Control Number98042426
and 2 more
- Goodreads1121963
- LibraryThing352703
Classifications
- DDC995
- LCCDU20 .V69 1999
Description
"What actually happened as Europeans and peoples of the Pacific discovered each other? How have their respective senses of the past influenced their understanding of the present? And what are the consequences of their meeting?"--BOOK JACKET. "In this collection of essays, scholars from European, Polynesian, and Settler backgrounds provide answers to these questions. Writing from, and between, a variety of disciplines (history, anthropology, Maori Studies, literary criticism, law, cultural studies, art history, Pacific Studies), they 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. They examine contact from both sides of beaches throughout Polynesia, exposing the many inconsistencies from which Pacific history is made."--BOOK JACKET.
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