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Islanders : The Pacific in the Age of Empire by Nicholas Thomas (2012, Paperback)

Nicholas Thomas | ISBN-10: 030018056X | ISBN-13: 9780300180565
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Product Identifiers
ISBN-10030018056X
ISBN-139780300180565

Key Details
AuthorNicholas Thomas
Number Of Pages352 pages
Publication Date2012-02-28
PublisherYale University Press

Additional Details
Copyright Date2012

Dimensions
Weight19.2 Oz
Height2.5 In.
Width5.8 In.
Length9 In.

Target Audience
GroupTrade

Classification Method
LC Classification NumberDU29
Dewey Edition22

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" Islandersis not only a fine work of scholarship but also a lucid and engrossing read."Rod Edmond, BBC History Magazine

" Islanderstells the compelling, sometimes shocking, story of the western world''s impact on the peoples of Oceania before 1900. Using all the evidence now available, Thomas shows that the lives of individuals, both Pacific islanders and European newcomers, were profoundly altered as the contact became more persistent and intrusive. Explorers, missionaries, traders and officials jostled for status and profit in their relationship with islanders - chiefly, priestly and otherwise - who in turn pursued their own interests in the years before catastrophic population decline changed the islands for ever. Islanderswill appeal to specialists and non-specialists alike as a scintillating contribution not only to Pacific history, but to the general study of relations between European and non-European peoples." - Glyn Williams, author of The Great South Sea

"Beautifully written, with spell-binding vignettes. An important, original controbution to our knowledge of life in the Pacific." - Dame Anne Salmond, author of The Trial of the Cannibal Dog: Captain Cook in the South Seas

"Enjoyably readable."G.E. Marcus, Choice

"Intellectually sophisticated and clearly written, this first-rate study of the experience of the Pacific Islanders provides one of the best available studies of the nature of imperial contact and violence, and of the traumas they caused."Jeremy Black, University of Exeter

"The islanders' minds and feelings may be inaccessible in purely anthropological terms, but Thomas provides ample evidence to allow readers to fill in the gaps."Dr. Andrew Rudd, Church Times

"Thomas' description of the journey into the imperial world of the Pacific is made inclusive and companionable with lovely asides... [a] comprehensive but gripping book"Katrina Schlunke, Times Higher Education Supplement

"We are used to idea of thinking of the Pacific in the age of exploration and empire as a play-pond for the greed, ambition and curiosity of Europeans, but now Nicholas Thomas has produced a bracing revision that - Antipodean-like - inverts many of our assumptions about the Islanders that they supposedly discovered and exploited. Drawing on a lifetime of research, and in vivid sinewy prose, he brings to life an unknown world of Islander explorers, adventurers, traders, sailors, whalers, warriors, priests and migrants - peoples who criss-crossed every ocean and whose stories have never made it into Hakluyt or any voyage anthology. Surely it is these Pacific Islanders, rather than we European intruders, who deserve to be seen as the world''s first cosmopolitans." - Iain McCalman, author of Darwin''s Armada: Four Voyages and the Battle for the Theory of Evolution

Joint winner of the 2010 Wolfson History Prize given by the Wolfson Foundation

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