Author: Calder, A., J. Lamb & B. Orr (ed.).
Title: Voyages and beaches: Pacific encounters, 1769-1840.
Description: Honolulu: Hawai'i UP, 1999. Orig. cloth binding, dustjacket, viii,344 pp. Illustrated, Index. Mailorder only - Alleen verzending mogelijk. Book condition : as new. - Writing from and between a variety of disciplines, scholars from European, Polynesian and Settler backgrounds show how the Pacific reveals a more various and contradictory history than that supposed by such homogenizing metropolitan myths as the introduction of civilization to savage peoples, the general ruin of indigenous cultures by an imperial juggernaut, or the mimicry of European models by an abject population. ISBN 9780824820398.

Keywords: ANTHROPOLOGY, Pacific