Pacific Historical Review
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Author: Anna Marie Hager
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Published: 1976
Total Pages: 588
ISBN-13: 9780520030350
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: George K. Behlmer
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Published: 2018
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ISBN-13: 9781503604926
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhy did the so-called "Cannibal Isles" of the Western Pacific fascinate Europeans for so long? Spanning three centuries--from Captain James Cook's death on a Hawaiian beach in 1779 to the end of World War II in 1945--this book considers the category of "the savage" in the context of British Empire in the Western Pacific, reassessing the conduct of Islanders and the English-speaking strangers who encountered them. Sensationalized depictions of Melanesian "savages" as cannibals and headhunters created a unifying sense of Britishness during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. These exotic people inhabited the edges of empire--and precisely because they did, Britons who never had and never would leave the home islands could imagine their nation's imperial reach. George Behlmer argues that Britain's early visitors to the Pacific--mainly cartographers and missionaries--wielded the notion of savagery to justify their own interests. But savage talk was not simply a way to objectify and marginalize native populations: it would later serve also to emphasize the fragility of indigenous cultures. Behlmer by turns considers cannibalism, headhunting, missionary activity, the labor trade, and Westerners' preoccupation with the perceived "primitiveness" of indigenous cultures, arguing that British representations of savagery were not merely straightforward expressions of colonial power, but also belied home-grown fears of social disorder.
Author: Bain Attwood
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2020-07-16
Total Pages: 457
ISBN-13: 1108478298
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book provides a strikingly original explanation of the Britain's treatment of sovereignty and native title in its Australasian colonies.
Author: Tracey Banivanua Mar
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2016-04-26
Total Pages: 279
ISBN-13: 110703759X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book charts the previously untold story of the mobility of Indigenous peoples across vast distances, vividly reshaping what is known about decolonisation.
Author: Ulrike Kirchberger
Publisher: UNC Press Books
Published: 2020-02-14
Total Pages: 279
ISBN-13: 1469655942
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe age of European high imperialism was characterized by the movement of plants and animals on a historically unprecedented scale. The human migrants who colonized territories around the world brought a variety of other species with them, from the crops and livestock they hoped to propagate, to the parasites, invasive plants, and pests they carried unawares, producing a host of unintended consequences that reshaped landscapes around the world. While the majority of histories about the dynamics of these transfers have concentrated on the British Empire, these nine case studies--focused on the Ottoman, French, Dutch, German, and British empires--seek to advance a historical analysis that is comparative, transnational, and interdisciplinary to understand the causes, consequences, and networks of biological exchange and ecological change resulting from imperialism. Contributors: Brett M. Bennett, Semih Celik, Nicole Chalmer, Jodi Frawley, Ulrike Kirchberger, Carey McCormack, Idir Ouahes, Florian Wagner, Samuel Eleazar Wendt, Alexander van Wickeren, Stephanie Zehnle