Islanders: The Pacific in the Age of Empire - Softcover

Thomas, Nicholas

 
9780300180565: Islanders: The Pacific in the Age of Empire
Softcover
ISBN 10: 030018056X ISBN 13: 9780300180565
Verlag: Yale University Press, 2012

Inhaltsangabe

An incisive, evocative history of the experience of empire in the Oceanic world

This compelling book explores the lived experience of empire in the Pacific, the last region to be contacted and colonized by Europeans following the great voyages of Captain Cook. Unlike conventional accounts that emphasize confrontation and the destruction of indigenous cultures, Islanders reveals there was gain as well as loss, survival as well as suffering, and invention as well as exploitation.

Empowered by imaginative research in obscure archives and collections, Thomas rediscovers a rich and surprising history of encounters, not only between Islanders and Europeans, but among Islanders, brought together in new ways by explorers, missionaries, and colonists. He tells the story of the making of empire, not through an impersonal survey, but through vivid stories of the lives of men and women―some visionary, some vicious, and some just eccentric―and through sensuous evocation of seascapes and landscapes of the Pacific. A fascinating re-creation of an Oceanic world, Islanders offers a new paradigm, not only for histories of the Pacific, but for understandings of cultural contact everywhere.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Nicholas Thomas is director of the Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, and professor of historical anthropology, at Cambridge University, and has traveled widely in the Pacific. Among his books is Discoveries: The Voyages of Captain Cook.

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Verlag
Yale University Press
Erscheinungsdatum
2012
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
030018056X
ISBN 13 
9780300180565
Einband
Tapa blanda
Anzahl der Seiten
352
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