The Apotheosis of Captain Cook : : European Mythmaking in the Pacific / / Gananath Obeyesekere.
Here Gananath Obeyesekere debunks one of the most enduring myths of imperialism, civilization, and conquest: the notion that the Western civilizer is a god to savages. Using shipboard journals and logs kept by Captain James Cook and his officers, Obeyesekere reveals the captain as both the self-cons...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Archive 1927-1999 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2021] ©1992 |
| Year of Publication: | 2021 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (336 p.) :; 14 halftones |
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