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Voyages and Beaches: Pacific Encounters, 1769-1840

By Jonathan Lamb , Alex Calder , Bridget Orr

Book information

Publisher
University of Hawaii Press
Year
1999
ISBN
0824820398, 9780824820398
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
3 MB (2701780 bytes)
Pages
344\352
Time added
2016-09-27 23:27:35
Australia & New Zealand;Australia & Oceania;Histor

Description

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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