Science, Voyages, and Encounters in Oceania, 1511-1850
Science, Voyages, and Encounters in Oceania, 1511-1850

Author: Bronwen Douglas

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2014-03-26

Total Pages: 340

ISBN-13: 1137305894

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Blending global scope with local depth, this book throws new light on important themes. Spanning four centuries and vast space, it combines the history of ideas with particular histories of encounters between European voyagers and Indigenous people in Oceania (Island Southeast Asia, New Guinea, Australia, New Zealand, and the Pacific Islands).

The Travelers' World
The Travelers' World

Author: Harry Liebersohn

Publisher: Harvard University Press

Published: 2006-03-31

Total Pages: 412

ISBN-13: 9780674021853

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An unforgettable voyage filled with delightful characters, dramatic encounters, and rich cultural details, this book heralds a moment of intellectual preparation for the modern global era. Harry Liebersohn examines the transformation of global knowledge during the great age of scientific exploration.

The Concept of Race
The Concept of Race

Author: Ashley Montagu

Publisher:

Published: 1969

Total Pages: 296

ISBN-13:

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'Ten distinguished scientists attack the concept of race as a biologically unsound, socially invalid and prejudicial means of human classification.' -- cover.

Orientalism and Race
Orientalism and Race

Author: T. Ballantyne

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2016-01-03

Total Pages: 278

ISBN-13: 0230508073

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This study traces the emergence and dissemination of Aryanism within the British Empire. The idea of an Aryan race became an important feature of imperial culture in the nineteenth century, feeding into debates in Britain, Ireland, India, and the Pacific. The global reach of the Aryan idea reflected the complex networks that enabled the global reach of British Imperialism. Tony Ballantyne charts the shifting meanings of Aryanism within these 'webs' of Empire.

Genealogical Fictions
Genealogical Fictions

Author: María Elena Martínez

Publisher: Stanford University Press

Published: 2008

Total Pages: 425

ISBN-13: 0804756481

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Genealogical Fictions examines how the state, church, Inquisition, and other institutions in colonial Mexico used the Spanish notion of limpieza de sangre (purity of blood) over time and how the concept's enduring religious, genealogical, and gendered meanings came to shape the region's patriotic and racial ideologies.

Across the Great Divide
Across the Great Divide

Author: Bronwen Douglas

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2013-12-19

Total Pages: 382

ISBN-13: 1134410859

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Across the Great Divide tracks a Pacific historian's fruitful, ambivalent engagements with History and Anthropology, anticipating experiments in each discipline with the other's theories and praxis. The revised and new essays comprising this collection provide systematic critiques of aspects of received scholarly wisdom about Oceania and are linked by reflexive commentaries addressing recent postcolonial concerns. A varied but coherent set of ethnographic and historical narratives about colonial encounters in Island Melanesia is informed by particular critical focus on the paradoxes and politics of knowing indigenous pasts through colonial texts.