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Representing the South Pacific
Language: en
Pages: 321
Authors: Rod Edmond
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 1997-11-20 - Publisher: Cambridge University Press

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This book examines how the South Pacific was represented by explorers, missionaries, travellers, writers, and artists between 1767 and 1914 by drawing on histor
Reimagining the American Pacific
Language: en
Pages: 326
Authors: Rob Wilson
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2000 - Publisher: Duke University Press

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Discusses the makings of the "American Pacific" locality/location/identity as space and ground of cultural production, and the way this region can be linked to
Collecting in the South Sea
Language: en
Pages: 340
Authors: Bronwen Douglas
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2018-12-03 - Publisher: Pacific Presences

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This book is a study of 'collecting' undertaken by Joseph Antoine Bruni d'Entrecasteaux and his shipmates in Tasmania, the western Pacific Islands, and Indonesi
Mothers' Darlings of the South Pacific
Language: en
Pages: 405
Authors: Judith A. Bennett
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2016-03-31 - Publisher: University of Hawaii Press

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Over the course of World War II, two million American military personnel occupied bases throughout the South Pacific, leaving behind a human legacy of at least
The Pacific Muse
Language: en
Pages: 372
Authors: Patty O'Brien
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2006 - Publisher: University of Washington Press

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"While examining colonial culture in its many manifestations, from art, literature, and film to the journals of explorers and missionaries, O'Brien rereads not