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  • Race and Redemption

    British Missionaries Encounter Pacific Peoples, 1797-1920

    by Jane Samson ...
    Series series Studies in the History of Christian Missions (SHCM)
    Race and Redemption is the latest volume in the Studies in the History of Christian Missions series, which explores the significant, yet sometimes controversial, impact of Christian missions around the world.In this historical examination of the encounter between British missionaries and people in the Pacific Islands, Jane Samson reveals the paradoxical yet symbiotic nature of the two stances that ... Read more

    $56.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Pacific Empires

    by Frost, Alan, Samson, Jane ...
    A new interest in European maritime exploration was aroused with the publication of the first volume of J. C. Beaglehole's edition of The Journals of Captain James Cook in 1955. In the forty-odd years since then, our knowledge of this exploration—and of the imperialism of which it was a part—has expanded enormously.We now recognise that the scientific endeavours, once seen as disinterested ... Read more

    $13.71 USD

  • The Cambridge History of the Pacific Ocean: Volume 2, The Pacific Ocean since 1800

    Edited by Anne Perez Hattori, Jane Samson ...
    Series series The Cambridge History of the Pacific Ocean
    Volume II of The Cambridge History of the Pacific Ocean focuses on the latest era of Pacific history, examining the period from 1800 to the present day. This volume discusses advances and emerging trends in the historiography of the colonial era, before outlining the main themes of the twentieth century when the idea of a Pacific-centred century emerged. It concludes by exploring how history and ... Read more

    $141.09 USD

  • British Imperial Strategies in the Pacific, 1750-1900

    Edited by Jane Samson ...
    Series series The Pacific World: Lands, Peoples and History of the Pacific, 1500-1900
    The focus of this volume is Britain's trans-Pacific empire. This began with haphazard challenges to Spanish dominion, but by the end of the 18th century, the British had established a colony in Australia and had gone to the brink of war with Spain to establish trading rights in the north Pacific. These rights led to formal colonies in Vancouver Island and British Columbia, when Britain sought to ... Read more

    $265.00 USD

  • The British Empire

    Edited by Jane Samson ...
    Series series Oxford Readers
    The phenomenon of imperialism has never been under such intense scrutiny, by such a wide range of academic disciplines, as it is today. From cultural studies to the history of science, academics are engaged in a series of debates about empire which move far beyond traditional preoccupations with metropolitan strategy, economics, and rivalry. Using primary and secondary documentary sources, this ... Read more

    $73.99 USD

  • Race and Empire

    by Jane Samson ...
    Series series Seminar Studies
    Readers at the beginning of the twenty-first century are probably more racially self-aware than any other generation has been. Like the relationship between gender and history, that between race and history is perceived to be of the utmost importance by young people and the older generation because it has left such a controversial legacy in the shape of hopes for multiculturalism, diversity, and ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

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    Writing about Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples

    by Jeremy Beckett ...
    In this valuable collection renowned Australian scholar, Professor Jeremy Beckett, draws together some of his best writing from the 1970s to the present. The collection distils 50 years of history, blending cultural analysis with narrative in two regions of Australia. One of the regions covered, the Torres Strait, was catapulted from obscurity to the centre of Australian attention by the Mabo case ... Read more

    $26.19 USD

  • This Horrid Practice

    by Paul Moon ...
    'Though stronger evidence of this horrid practice prevailing among the inhabitants of this coast will scarcely be required, we have still stronger to give.' - Captain James Cook This Horrid Practice uncovers an unexplored taboo of New Zealand history - the widespread practice of cannibalism in pre-European Maori society. Until now, many historians have tried to avoid it and many Maori have ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • The British Empire

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Ashley Jackson ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    From the eighteenth century until the 1950s the British Empire was the biggest political entity in the world. The territories forming this empire ranged from tiny islands to vast segments of the world's major continental land masses. The British Empire left its mark on the world in a multitude of ways, many of them permanent. In this Very Short Introduction, Ashley Jackson introduces and defines ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • The colonisation of time

    Ritual, routine and resistance in the British Empire

    by Giordano Nanni ...
    Series Book 94 - Studies in Imperialism
    The Colonisation of Time is a highly original and long overdue examination of the ways that western-European and specifically British concepts and rituals of time were imposed on other cultures as a fundamental component of colonisation during the nineteenth century. Based on a wealth of primary sources, it explores the intimate relationship between the colonisation of time and space in two ... Read more

    $20.99 USD

  • The New Worlds of Thomas Robert Malthus

    Rereading the Principle of Population

    by Alison Bashford, Joyce E. Chaplin ...
    An ambitious global history that fundamentally alters our understanding of MalthusThe New Worlds of Thomas Robert Malthus is a sweeping global and intellectual history that radically recasts our understanding of Malthus's Essay on the Principle of Population, the most famous book on population ever written or ever likely to be. Malthus's Essay is also persistently misunderstood. First published ... Read more

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  • Decolonizing Culture in Pacific Literature

    Reading History and Trauma in Contemporary Fiction

    by Susan Y. Najita ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Postcolonial Literatures
    In Decolonizing Cultures in the Pacific, Susan Y. Najita proposes that the traumatic history of contact and colonization has become a crucial means by which indigenous peoples of Oceania are reclaiming their cultures, languages, ways of knowing, and political independence. In particular, she examines how contemporary writers from Hawai‘i, Samoa, and Aotearoa/New Zealand remember, re-tell, and ... Read more

    $61.99 USD