| Description |
1 online resource (xx, 304 pages) : illustrations, maps |
| Contents |
pt. 1: Voyaging. Women of the east, women of the west: region and race, gender and sexuality on Cook's voyages / Margaret Jolly ; Convicts, slaves and prison inmates: the voyage to Australia in comparative perspective / Hamish Maxwell-Stewart ; Antipodean experiments: Charles Darwin's South Seas voyages, 1835-36 / Iain McCalman -- pt. 2: Investigating. In transit: European cosmologies in the Pacific / Simon Schaffer ; Strange climes: John MacGillivrary and natural history collecting / Sophie Jensen ; Geopolitics of the Pacific Ocean / Alison Bashford -- pt. 3: Befriending. Defending friends: Robert Codrington, George Sarawia and Edward Wogale / Helen Gardner ; On the trail of Nikolai Miklouho-Maclay: a Russian encounter in the Antipodes / Sheila Fitzpatrick ; Creating the anthropological field in the Pacific / Anita Herle -- pt. 4: Resisting. Facing empire: indigenous histories in comparative perspective / Michael A. McDonnell ; Taking liberty: towards a new political historiography of settler self-government and indigenous activism / Ann Curthoys ; Cultural development and cultural observations in the African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) Group of States / Katerina Martina Teaiwa -- Afterword: opposite footers / Damon Ieremia Salesa |
| Summary |
This collection of essays stems from a John E. Sawyer Seminar on the Comparative Study of Cultures. Held over two years, the seminar investigated the effects and transformations of ideas, peoples, and institutions from the Atlantic World when carried into |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
History.
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General & world history.
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Australasian & Pacific history.
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HISTORY -- World.
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Civilization -- Foreign influences
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| SUBJECT |
Pacific Area -- Civilization -- Foreign influences
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Pacific Area -- History
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| Subject |
Pacific Area
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Fullagar, Kate
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| ISBN |
1443838063 |
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9781443838061 |
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