Author: CALDER, ALEX (ED). LAMB, JONATHAN (ED.). ORR, BRIDGET (ED.)
Title: Voyages and beaches : Pacific encounters, 1769-1840 / edited by Alex Calder, Jonathan Lamb, and Bridget Orr
Description: Honolulu : University of Hawaii Press 1999. First Edition. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dw. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight. bright. clean and especially sharp-cornered. Literally as new; 8vo 8' - 9' tall; 344 pages; Description: viii. 344 p. : ill.map ; 24 cm. Papers presented at the 9th David Nichol Smith Memorial Seminar. University of Auckland. 1993. Includes bibliographical references and index. Subjects: Oceania --Discovery and exploration --Congresses. Summary: 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.ISBN: 0824820398. Weight in Kg appr.:

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