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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. This title reveals that there was gain as well as loss, survival as well as suffering, and invention as well as exploita ...
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This anthology places the works of such well-known figures as Captain James Cook and Robert Louis Stevenson alongside the writings of lesser-known explorers, missionaries, beachcombers, and literary travellers who roamed the South Seas from the late 17th through the late 19th cen ...
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The author takes up issues central to modern anthropology. In so doing he raises doubts about any simple us / them dichotomy between Westerners and Pacific Islanders, challenging the preoccupation of anthropology with cultural differences by stressing the shared history of colo ...
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Provides a window into the fantasies and realities of colonial life by presenting separate sets of letters by two late nineteenth-century British colonists addressed mostly to the colonists' mothers. This book includes commentary that explores colonial degeneration in the South P ...
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Provides a window into the fantasies and realities of colonial life. Using critical anthropology and theories of history, this book examines the process whereby men and women eroded in the midst of the hot, violent, uncivil colonial milieu.
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Like his hero, Captain James Cook, Dumont d'Urville journeyed three times to the Southern Seas and his voyages were the zenith of French maritime exploration, colonial ambition and scientific endeavour. This publication features natural history watercolours documenting rare mater ...
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The author takes up issues central to modern anthropology. In so doing he raises doubts about any simple us / them dichotomy between Westerners and Pacific Islanders, challenging the preoccupation of anthropology with a cultural difference by stressing the shared history of col ...
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