| Description |
x, 336 pages : illustrations, maps, portraits, facsimiles ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
pt. 1. The Bible and the gun : contact, commerce, conversion. A plan of great extent and importance ; The Typees fought us to the last ; If King Georgey would send him a vessel ; Not a vestige of idolatry was to be seen ; Haunted by the example of Crook -- pt. 2. The tribe and the army : labour, land, sovereignty. The smell of burning flesh is not nice ; A new phase of piracy ; Man-o'-war all same old woman! ; The whites would serve the natives ; Our paradise has become a hell |
| Summary |
"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." --Dust jacket |
| Analysis |
Europe - Colonies - Islands of the Pacific - History - 19th century |
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Europe - Colonies - Oceania - History - 19th century |
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Europeans - Islands of the Pacific - History - 19th century |
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Islands of the Pacific - Colonization |
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Islands of the Pacific - History - 19th century |
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London Missionary Society - History - 19th century |
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Missionaries - Pacific area |
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Missions - Pacific area |
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Pacific Islanders - History - 19th century |
| Notes |
Formerly CIP. Uk |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Europeans -- Islands of the Pacific -- History -- 19th century.
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Pacific Islanders -- History -- 19th century.
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| SUBJECT |
Europe http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85045631 -- Colonies http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh99005254 -- Islands of the Pacific http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85068616 -- History -- 19th century.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2002006167
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Europe http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85045631 -- Colonies -- Oceania http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2002012529 -- History -- 19th century.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2002006167
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Islands of the Pacific http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85068616 -- Colonization.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh99005562
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Islands of the Pacific http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85068616 -- History -- 19th century. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2002006167
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| LC no. |
2010020777 |
| ISBN |
9780300124385 (hbk.) |
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