Voyages and beaches : Pacific encounters, 1769-1840 / edited by Alex Calder, Jonathan Lamb, and Brid...
Voyages and beaches : Pacific encounters, 1769-1840 / edited by Alex Calder, Jonathan Lamb, and Brid...
Voyages and beaches : Pacific encounters, 1769-1840 / edited by Alex Calder, Jonathan Lamb, and Bridget Orr.
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Publisher
Honolulu : University of Hawai'i Press, c1999.
Call Numbers
995/38
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Language
English
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Physical Description
Physical content
viii, 344 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Contents
1. Introduction: Postcoloniality and the Pacific / Alex Calder, Jonathan Lamb and Bridget Orr -- 2. Nature and History, Self and Other: European Perceptions of World History in the Age of Encounter / J. G. A. Pocock -- 3. South Pacific Mythology / I. F. Helu -- 4. The Postmodern Legacy of a Premoder...
11. My Musket, My Missionary, and My Mana / Pat Hohepa -- 12. Enlightenment Anthropology and the Ancestral Remains of Australian Aboriginal People / Paul Turnbull -- 13. Missionaries on Tahiti, 1797-1840 / Rod Edmond -- 14. Augustus Earle's The Meeting of the Artist and the Wounded Chief Hongi, Bay...
Publication information
Publisher
Honolulu : University of Hawai'i Press, c1999.
Place of Publication
Hawaii
Date Published
c1999.
Subjects
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Scope and Contents
Summary
"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?" "In this collection of essays, scholars from European, Polynesian, and Settler backgrounds provide answers to these questi...
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Full title
Voyages and beaches : Pacific encounters, 1769-1840 / edited by Alex Calder, Jonathan Lamb, and Bridget Orr.
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Notes
General note
Papers presented at the 9th David Nichol Smith Memorial Seminar, University of Auckland, 1993.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Date Copyright
c1999.
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Call Numbers
995/38
Record Identifier
74VvVXlGJqLX
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VvVXlGJqLX
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ISBN
0824820398 (alk. paper)
9780824820398 (alk. paper)
DDC
995
MMS ID
991010072139702626
