Texts and Contexts : : Reflections in Pacific Islands Historiography /

Texts and Contexts : : Reflections in Pacific Islands Historiography / / ed. by Brij V. Lal, Doug Munro.

Texts and Contexts is concerned with the development of Pacific Islands history as a specialization in its own right. Specifically, this volume examines the foundational texts that pioneered and consolidated the new subdiscipline and served as the building blocks and stepping stone for further devel...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter UHP eBook Package 2000-2013
MitwirkendeR:
Ballard, Chris,
Brady, Ivan,
Campbell, I. C.,
Douglas, Bronwen,
Goldsmith, Michael,
Hanlon, David,
Howe, K. R.,
Lal, Brij V.,
Laracy, Hugh,
Lindstrom, Lamont,
Munro, Doug,
O'Malley, Vincent,
Osorio, Jonathan K.,
Ryan, Tom,
Samson, Jane,
West, Francis,
Williams, Glyndwr,
HerausgeberIn:
Lal, Brij V.,
Munro, Doug,
Place / Publishing House:Honolulu : : University of Hawaii Press, , [2005]
©2005
Year of Publication:2005
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (272 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • The Text in Its Context: An Introduction
  • Part I. General Regional
  • 1. Fatal Choices? Morrell's and Scarr's Imperial Histories
  • 2. On Douglas Oliver's The Pacific Islands
  • 3. Oskar Spate's Trilogy
  • 4. Where theWaves Fall-or, Playing the Generalist Game
  • Part II. Methodologies
  • 5. Voyagers and Navigators: The Sharp-Lewis Debate
  • 6. The Evolution of Marshall Sahlins
  • 7. Revisioning the Pacific: Bernard Smith in the South Seas
  • 8. More Celebrated than Read: TheWork of Norma McArthur
  • 9. Two Pacific Biographies: Hubert Murray and Father Damien
  • Part III. Activities
  • 10. The Missionary Position: Messengers of Grace and TheWorks of Ta'unga
  • 11. Of Islands and Sandalwood: Shineberg, Maude, and the Hidden History of Trade
  • 12. Unsettling New Zealand History: The Revisionism of Sinclair and Ward
  • 13. Passage across the Sea: Indentured Labor to Fiji and from the Solomons
  • 14. Trumpet and Road: Two Classic Cargo Texts
  • Part IV. Island Groups
  • 15. Living in Archives and Dreams: The Histories of Kuykendall and Daws
  • 16. On Hezel's The First Taint of Civilization
  • 17. On Greg Dening's Islands and Beaches
  • 18. Disentangling Samoan History: The Contributions of Gilson and Davidson
  • 19. The Last Unknown: Gavin Souter and the Historiography of New Guinea
  • Contributors
  • Index

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