Australasian and Pacific history Books
University of Hawai'i Press The People of the Sea
Book SynopsisOceania is characterized by thousands of islands and archipelagoes amidst the vast expanse of the Pacific. This book offers a study of ocean-people interaction in the region from 1770 to 1870.Trade ReviewThis well-researched and beautifully written monograph opens a window in time and space. Its emphasis on the dynamics [of marine ecosystems] is convincing and serves to falsify the notion of a frozen 'tradition' as well as of a predictable maritime environment. - Anthropological Quarterly ""D'Arcy displays range and agility rare in a young scholar.... This book is daring, innovative, and should command very broad attention."" - International Journal of Maritime History ""A superb, richly textured narrative of cultural seascapes across Remote Oceania."" - Oceania
£19.96
University of Hawai'i Press Destinys Landfall A History of Guam
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£31.46
University of Hawai'i Press Twelve Days at Nuku Hiva Russian Encounters and Mutiny in the South Pacific
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£39.16
University of Hawai'i Press The Painted King Art Activism and Authenticity in
Book SynopsisThe famous statue of Kamehameha I in downtown Honolulu is one of the state's most popular landmarks. Many tourists and residents however, are unaware that the statue is a replica; the original, cast in Paris in the 1880s and the first statue in the Islands, stands before the old courthouse in rural Kapa`au, North Kohala, the legendary birthplace of Kamehameha I. In 1996 conservator Glenn Wharton was sent by public arts administrators to assess the statue's condition, and what he found startled him: A larger-than-life brass figure painted over in brown, black, and yellow with white toenails and fingernails and penetrating black eyes with small white brush strokes for highlights. . . . It looked more like a piece of folk art than a nineteenth-century heroic monument. The Painted King is Wharton's account of his efforts to conserve the Kohala Kamehameha statue, but it is also the story of his journey to understand the statue's meaning for the residents of Kapa`au. He learns that the tow
£29.56
University of Hawai'i Press Domination and Resistance The United States and
Book SynopsisIlluminates the twin themes of superpower domination and indigenous resistance in the central Pacific during the Cold War, with a compelling historical examination of the relationship between the United States and the Republic of the Marshall Islands.
£46.50
University of Hawai'i Press Breaking the Shell
Book SynopsisPresents the journey of Captain Korent Joel, who, having been forced into exile from the near-apocalyptic thermonuclear Bravo test of 1954, has reconnected to his ancestral maritime heritage and forged an unprecedented path toward becoming a navigator.
£22.36
University of Hawai'i Press Hawaiian Language Past Present and Future
Book SynopsisPresents aspects of Hawaii and its history that are rarely treated in language classes. The major characters in this book make up a diverse cast: Dutch merchants, Captain Cook's naturalist, ÃpkahaÃia, lexicographer Noah Webster, philologists in New England, missionary-linguists and their Hawaiian consultants, and many minor players.
£22.36
University of Hawai'i Press The Past Before Us
Book SynopsisThe title of this book refers to the importance of ka w mamua or the time in front in Hawaiian thinking. In this collection of essays, eleven Kanaka iwi (Native Hawaiian) scholars honor their mookauhau (geneaological lineage) by using genealogical knowledge drawn from the past to shape their research methodologies.
£58.50
University of Hawai'i Press The Past Before Us Mookauhau as Methodology
Book SynopsisThe title of this book refers to the importance of ka w mamua or the time in front in Hawaiian thinking. In this collection of essays, eleven Kanaka iwi (Native Hawaiian) scholars honor their mookauhau (geneaological lineage) by using genealogical knowledge drawn from the past to shape their research methodologies.
£21.56
University of Hawai'i Press Hearing the Future The Music and Magic of the
Book SynopsisDuring the turbulent decades of the 1970s and 1980s, Papua New Guinea gained political independence. It was an exciting time for a diverse group of pioneering musicians who formed a band they named âœSangumaâ. Australian ethnomusicologist Denis Crowdy argues that the Sanguma bandâs music was a vital form of cultural expression in sync with sociopolitical change then taking place in PNG.
£20.76
University of Hawai'i Press Na Kahu
Book SynopsisTracing the lives of some two hundred Native Hawaiian teachers, preachers, pastors, and missionaries, Na Kahu provides new historical perspectives of the indigenous ministry in Hawaiâi.
£46.50
University of Hawai'i Press Indigenous Literatures from Micronesia
Book SynopsisFor the first time, poetry, short stories, critical and creative essays, chants, and excerpts of plays by Indigenous Micronesian authors have been brought together to form a resounding - and distinctly Micronesian - voice. This long-awaited anthology of contemporary indigenous literature will reshape Micronesia's historical and literary landscape.
£23.96
University of Hawai'i Press The Journal of James Macrae
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£16.96
University of Hawai'i Press Pacific Futures Past and Present
Book SynopsisHow, when, and why has the Pacific been a locus for imagining different futures by those living there as well as passing through? What does that tell us about the distinctiveness of this sea of islands? This book brings together a diverse set of approaches to how futures are being conceived in the region and have been imagined in the past.Trade ReviewThis book both enriches and challenges the field of global history by returning—from a variety of archival and theoretical concerns—to questions about the very nature of history that have variously engaged scholars such as Greg Dening, Reinhart Koselleck, and Marshall Sahlins. The rich essays collected here will have much to say to anyone contemplating the status of the discipline of history today. If this book has a singular project, it is in an underlying search for ways in which history can be helpful. Recognizing that much of the Pacific is facing a state of existential emergency, the book opens with an appeal for history to "offer us new insights for a world in crisis" and ends by reminding the reader of Alice Te Punga Somerville’s ethical questions of "which histories do we tell, and which futures do we imagine?" Thus the book is concerned with how history is about the future, and how the project of creating desired futures for the Pacific needs the discipline of history to keep it afloat.
£23.96
University of Hawai'i Press Naturalist Histories
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£51.00
University of Hawai'i Press First Fieldwork
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£22.36
University of Hawai'i Press Colonizing Madness
Book SynopsisTells a forgotten story of silence, suffering, and transgressions in the colonial Pacific. This book offers new insights into a history of Fiji by entering the Pacific Islands' most enduring psychiatric institution - St Giles Psychiatric Hospital, established as Fiji's Public Lunatic Asylum in 1884.
£22.36
University of Hawai'i Press Ignored Histories
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£51.00
University of Hawai'i Press Ignored Histories
Book SynopsisHow is colonial history taught in schools? And how do education systems impact power relations between Indigenous people and settlers? This book provides a contribution to discussions about knowledge production and the teaching of colonial history in schools with a comparative analysis of two neighbouring settler-colonial societies.
£22.36
University of Hawai'i Press Leveraging Sovereignty
Book SynopsisExamines the leadership of Hawai’i’s longest reigning monarch, King Kamehameha III. The book highlights the early 1840s, when Kauikeaouli secured recognition from the United States, Britain, and France that he ruled over an independent and sovereign Hawaiian state.
£54.00
University of Hawai'i Press Migrant Ecologies
Book SynopsisCeates an understanding of the past, present, and futures of the lands, seas, peoples, practices, microbes, animals, plants, and other natural forces that shape the Pacific. The book effectively argues for the existence of an interconnected Pacific World environmental history.
£51.00
University of Hawai'i Press Making Waves
Book SynopsisPositions music as at once ritual and entertainment, esoteric and exoteric, tradition and creativity, within the cultural geographies of Hawaiâi, Asia, and the Pacific. In doing so, the contributors situate music at the very core of global human endeavours.
£22.36
University of Hawai'i Press Na Hoonanea o ka Manawa
Book SynopsisHe mea hoomanao no na hana oia au i hala, a he mea hoi e poina ole ai i na mamo o keia la a mau aku. A memorial for the events of the past, and something to ensure that the children of today and forever more will never forget.
£52.50
University of Hawai'i Press Kuleana and Commitment
Book SynopsisExamines the entangled interactions between Kanaka Maoli and archaeologists in Hawai’i. Kathleen Kawelu explores the development of Hawaiian archaeology, discusses important cases of the recent past, and focuses on the interpersonal relationships between these two key groups involved in heritage management in Hawai’i.
£19.16
University of Hawai'i Press Ka Mano Wai
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£63.75
University of Hawai'i Press Connecting the Kingdom
Book SynopsisOffers a wealth of insight into the emergence of the Hawaiian nation-state from sources mostly ignored by historians. By examining how early Hawaiian chiefs appropriated Western sailing technology to help build their island nation, Mills presents the fascinating history of sixty Hawaiian-owned schooners, brigs, barks, and peleleu canoes.
£22.36
University of Hawai'i Press Migrant Ecologies
Book SynopsisThe Pacific Ocean is remarkable for its diverse human and non-human inhabitants, their long-distance migrations, and their influences on other parts of the world. This book creates an understanding of the past, present, and futures of the lands, seas, peoples, practices, microbes, animals, plants, and other natural forces that shape the Pacific.Trade ReviewEncompassing the expansive ocean, Migrant Ecologies finds coherence in Matt Masuda’s conception of the Pacific as a place of “multiple translocalisms,” marvelously varied culturally and ecologically, but tied together by movement. Here a splendid cast of characters-sooty shearwaters, chickens, dogs, rats, whales, tuna, sweet potatoes, breadfruit, and people-cross latitude, longitude, and coast lines, shaping lands and lives as they go, but all the while subject to the effects of human impacts, cultural mores, climatic circumstances, and other influences. So we see Maori hunting affecting the diet of Indigenous North Americans, traditional patterns of island land-holding working against the introduction of commercial farming, and tourists altering the nearshore ecology of Hawai‘i. In this intriguing environmental history, exceptionalism and cosmopolitanism go hand in hand to complicate the ramifications of development and extractivism." - Graeme Wynn. The University of British Columbia"From bird migration to nuclear radiation, Migrant Ecologies brilliantly demonstrates how migration and mobility underpinned environmental histories of the Pacific World from the deep past to the present. This illuminating book invigorates debates about indigenous histories and agency by showing how human and non-human migration have fundamentally shaped the Pacific in every historical period. Migrant Ecologies not only offers a new way to understand the Pacific but also provides a model for other environmental histories struggling to reconcile global and indigenous paradigms in a conceptual framework." - Brett Bennett, University of Johannesburg and Western Sydney University
£22.36
University of Hawai'i Press My Land My Life
Book SynopsisExplores the land rush that took place in Vanuatu from 2001 to 2014 which resulted in over ten percent of all customary land being leased. Siobhan McDonnell offers new insights into the drivers of capitalist land transformations.
£51.00
University of Hawai'i Press Feathered Gods and Fishhooks
Book SynopsisThe first edition of Feathered Gods and Fishhooks was the pioneering synthesis of ancient Hawaiian civilization from an archaeological perspective. This revised edition now brings the field up-to-date, incorporating the results from hundreds of archaeological projects undertaken throughout the Hawaiian Islands over the past thirty-five years.
£35.96
University of Hawai'i Press Moolelo
Book SynopsisAn essential contribution to contemporary Kanaka Maoli (Native Hawaiian) scholarship, Mo’olelo: The Foundation of Hawaiian Knowledge elevates our understanding of the importance of language and narrative to cultural revitalization.
£16.16
UNIV OF HAWAII PR Mothers Darlings of the South Pacific
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£23.96
University of Hawaii Press Fenua and Fare Marae and Mana
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£60.00
Oratia Media First Encounters New Zealand 16421840
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£19.19
John Wiley and Sons Ltd A Companion to Japanese History
Book SynopsisA Companion to Japanese History provides an authoritative overview of current debates and approaches within the study of Japan's history. Composed of 30 chapters written by an international group of scholars. Combines traditional perspectives with the most recent scholarly concerns.Trade Review"William M. Tsutsui introduces A C:oml~anion to Japanese History as an ambitious snapshot of Japan studies since the breakdown of the authority of modernization theory in the last half of the twentieth century." (Journal of World History, June 2010) “The well-written contributions, which blend together skillfully to form a unified whole, reflect the authors’ authoritative knowledge of Japan … As a one-volume tour-de-force of Japanese history, this book stands out.” (American Reference Books Annual) A Choice Outstanding Academic Title for 2007 “Tsutsui has edited an invaluable and authoritative overview of current scholarship on the history of Japan. The 30 chapters, written by an international group of scholars, provide balanced treatment of traditional themes with coverage of recent trends, debates, and emerging perspectives … Essential. All levels/libraries.” (Choice) "A vital reference tool for a large reference or academic library, providing a much needed fresh approach to the subject areas covered." (Reference Reviews)Table of ContentsList of Maps viii Notes on Contributors ix Introduction 1William M. Tsutsui PART I JAPAN BEFORE 1600 11 1 Japanese Beginnings 13Mark J. Hudson 2 The Heian Period 30G. Cameron Hurst III 3 Medieval Japan 47Andrew Edmund Goble PART II EARLY MODERN JAPAN 67 4 Unification, Consolidation, and Tokugawa Rule 69Philip C. Brown 5 Social and Economic Change in Tokugawa Japan 86Edward E. Pratt 6 Intellectual Change in Tokugawa Japan 101Peter Nosco 7 Cultural Developments in Tokugawa Japan 117Lawrence E. Marceau PART III MODERN JAPAN: FROM THE MEIJI RESTORATION THROUGH WORLD WAR II 137 8 Restoration and Revolution 139James L. Huffman 9 Oligarchy, Democracy, and Fascism 156Stephen S. Large 10 Social and Economic Change in Prewar Japan 172Mark Jones and Steven Ericson 11 Intellectual Life, Culture, and the Challenge of Modernity 189Elise K. Tipton 12 External Relations 207Frederick R. Dickinson 13 The Japanese Empire 224Y. Tak Matsusaka 14 The Fifteen-Year War 241W. Miles Fletcher III PART IV JAPAN SINCE 1945 263 15 The Occupation 265Mark Metzler 16 Postwar Politics 281Ray Christensen 17 The Postwar Japanese Economy 299Bai Gao 18 Postwar Society and Culture 315Wesley Sasaki-Uemura 19 Japan in the World 333Glenn D. Hook PART V THEMES IN JAPANESE HISTORY 349 20 Women and Sexuality in Premodern Japan 351Hitomi Tonomura 21 Gender and Sexuality in Modern Japan 372Sally A. Hastings 22 Class and Social Stratification 389Ian Neary 23 Japan in Asia 407Leo Ching 24 Center and Periphery in Japanese Historical Studies 424Michael Lewis 25 Modernity, Water, and the Environment in Japan 443Gavan McCormack 26 Popular Culture 460E. Taylor Atkins 27 Rural Japan and Agriculture 477Eric C. Rath 28 Business and Labor 493Charles Weathers 29 Authority and the Individual 511J. Victor Koschmann 30 National Identity and Nationalism 528Kevin M. Doak Consolidated Bibliography 545 Index 593
£151.16
John Wiley and Sons Ltd A Companion to Japanese History
Book SynopsisAn authoritative overview of current debates and approaches within the study of Japan's history Composed of 30 chapters written by an international group of scholars Combines traditional perspectives with the most recent scholarly concerns Supplements a chronological survey with targeted thematic analyses.Trade Review"William M. Tsutsui introduces A C:oml~anion to Japanese History as an ambitious snapshot of Japan studies since the breakdown of the authority of modernization theory in the last half of the twentieth century." (Journal of World History, June 2010) “The well-written contributions, which blend together skillfully to form a unified whole, reflect the authors’ authoritative knowledge of Japan … As a one-volume tour-de-force of Japanese history, this book stands out.” (American Reference Books Annual) A Choice Outstanding Academic Title for 2007 “Tsutsui has edited an invaluable and authoritative overview of current scholarship on the history of Japan. The 30 chapters, written by an international group of scholars, provide balanced treatment of traditional themes with coverage of recent trends, debates, and emerging perspectives … Essential. All levels/libraries.” (Choice) "A vital reference tool for a large reference or academic library, providing a much needed fresh approach to the subject areas covered." (Reference Reviews)Table of ContentsList of Maps viii Notes on Contributors ix Introduction 1William M. Tsutsui PART I JAPAN BEFORE 1600 11 1 Japanese Beginnings 13Mark J. Hudson 2 The Heian Period 30G. Cameron Hurst III 3 Medieval Japan 47Andrew Edmund Goble PART II EARLY MODERN JAPAN 67 4 Unification, Consolidation, and Tokugawa Rule 69Philip C. Brown 5 Social and Economic Change in Tokugawa Japan 86Edward E. Pratt 6 Intellectual Change in Tokugawa Japan 101Peter Nosco 7 Cultural Developments in Tokugawa Japan 117Lawrence E. Marceau PART III MODERN JAPAN: FROM THE MEIJI RESTORATION THROUGH WORLD WAR II 137 8 Restoration and Revolution 139James L. Huffman 9 Oligarchy, Democracy, and Fascism 156Stephen S. Large 10 Social and Economic Change in Prewar Japan 172Mark Jones and Steven Ericson 11 Intellectual Life, Culture, and the Challenge of Modernity 189Elise K. Tipton 12 External Relations 207Frederick R. Dickinson 13 The Japanese Empire 224Y. Tak Matsusaka 14 The Fifteen-Year War 241W. Miles Fletcher III PART IV JAPAN SINCE 1945 263 15 The Occupation 265Mark Metzler 16 Postwar Politics 281Ray Christensen 17 The Postwar Japanese Economy 299Bai Gao 18 Postwar Society and Culture 315Wesley Sasaki-Uemura 19 Japan in the World 333Glenn D. Hook PART V THEMES IN JAPANESE HISTORY 349 20 Women and Sexuality in Premodern Japan 351Hitomi Tonomura 21 Gender and Sexuality in Modern Japan 372Sally A. Hastings 22 Class and Social Stratification 389Ian Neary 23 Japan in Asia 407Leo Ching 24 Center and Periphery in Japanese Historical Studies 424Michael Lewis 25 Modernity, Water, and the Environment in Japan 443Gavan McCormack 26 Popular Culture 460E. Taylor Atkins 27 Rural Japan and Agriculture 477Eric C. Rath 28 Business and Labor 493Charles Weathers 29 Authority and the Individual 511J. Victor Koschmann 30 National Identity and Nationalism 528Kevin M. Doak Consolidated Bibliography 545 Index 593
£37.00
MP-NCA Uni of North Carolina All Things Harmless Useful and Ornamental
Book SynopsisColonization depended on moving people, plants, and animals from place to place, and in centuries past, scientists, landowners, and philanthropists formed acclimatization societies to study local species and conditions, form networks of supporters, and exchange organisms across the globe. Pete Minard tells the story of this movement.
£26.06
Duke University Press A Primer for Teaching Pacific Histories
Book SynopsisA Primer for Teaching Pacific Histories is a guide for college and high school teachers who are teaching Pacific histories for the first time or for experienced teachers who want to reinvigorate their courses. It can also serve those who are training future teachers to prepare their own syllabi, as well as teachers who want to incorporate Pacific histories into their world history courses. Matt K. Matsuda offers design principles for creating syllabi that will help students navigate a wide range of topics, from settler colonialism, national liberation, and warfare to tourism, popular culture, and identity. He also discusses practical pedagogical techniques and tips, project-based assignments, digital resources, and how Pacific approaches to teaching history differ from customary Western practices. Placing the Pacific Islands at the center of analysis, Matsuda draws readers into the process of strategically designing courses that will challenge students to think critically about Trade Review“This is an inspired and inspiring text—a welcome and much needed contribution rich with resources, pedagogical innovation, and practical strategies. Conceptually exciting, it takes an ‘assemblage’ approach that emphasizes relationships and connections between actors and events across time. It offers a rethinking as to what constitutes the Pacific world itself—from the margins to the center, particularly from the Pacific Rim to the Oceanic basin—all while emphasizing connectivity in relation to global histories.” -- J. Kehaulani Kauanui, author of * Paradoxes of Hawaiian Sovereignty: Land, Sex, and the Colonial Politics of State Nationalism *“Bringing multiple aspects of Pacific histories together in new and welcome ways, Matt K. Matsuda provides a more comprehensive approach to teaching the field than any other publication that currently exists.” -- Heather Streets-Salter, author of * World War One in Southeast Asia: Colonialism and Anticolonialism in an Era of Global Conflict *"This book is an assemblage of key concepts in Pacific histories, topic and primary text suggestions, pedagogical approaches, and discussion-based exercises for the classroom. With its pragmatic approaches to pedagogy, this book would be useful for environmentally minded educators who seek to integrate transnational, decolonial, and Indigenous perspectives in understanding environmental history, literature, and social movements." -- Heidi Amin-Hong * ISLE *“A Primer for Teaching Pacific Histories outlines a course with a rich, welcome, and innovative historical perspective on the broader Pacific region.” -- David Hanlon * Contemporary Pacific *“In A Primer for Teaching Pacific Histories, Matt Matsuda offers guidance on course structure, themes for inquiry, and resources to consult. The author’s multitude of overarching main ideas and supporting examples supply enough fundamentals for instructors working outside of their comfort zone as well as seasoned scholars looking for new perspectives.” -- Michelle Ladwig Williams * Pacific Affairs *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments vii Introduction: Objectives 1 Part I. Foundations 1. Begin with the State of Our Knowledge 19 2. Secure the Fundamentals: Navigation, Diaspora, Settlement 25 3. Underscore the Connections: Encounters in the Contact Zone 33 4. Review Disputed Legacies and Arguments 51 Part II. Devising Strategies 5. Imperialism as a Teaching Tool 67 6. Anthropology and Ethnology as Teaching Tools 89 7. Conflict as a Teaching Tool 95 8. Identity as a Teaching Tool 105 Part III. Performed Histories 9. Distinguish Representations and Realities 113 10. See the Process of Enacting Knowledge 121 Notes 145 Selected Bibliography 155 Index 161
£84.15
Duke University Press A Primer for Teaching Pacific Histories
Book SynopsisA Primer for Teaching Pacific Histories is a guide for college and high school teachers who are teaching Pacific histories for the first time or for experienced teachers who want to reinvigorate their courses. It can also serve those who are training future teachers to prepare their own syllabi, as well as teachers who want to incorporate Pacific histories into their world history courses. Matt K. Matsuda offers design principles for creating syllabi that will help students navigate a wide range of topics, from settler colonialism, national liberation, and warfare to tourism, popular culture, and identity. He also discusses practical pedagogical techniques and tips, project-based assignments, digital resources, and how Pacific approaches to teaching history differ from customary Western practices. Placing the Pacific Islands at the center of analysis, Matsuda draws readers into the process of strategically designing courses that will challenge students to think critically about Trade Review“This is an inspired and inspiring text—a welcome and much needed contribution rich with resources, pedagogical innovation, and practical strategies. Conceptually exciting, it takes an ‘assemblage’ approach that emphasizes relationships and connections between actors and events across time. It offers a rethinking as to what constitutes the Pacific world itself—from the margins to the center, particularly from the Pacific Rim to the Oceanic basin—all while emphasizing connectivity in relation to global histories.” -- J. Kehaulani Kauanui, author of * Paradoxes of Hawaiian Sovereignty: Land, Sex, and the Colonial Politics of State Nationalism *“Bringing multiple aspects of Pacific histories together in new and welcome ways, Matt K. Matsuda provides a more comprehensive approach to teaching the field than any other publication that currently exists.” -- Heather Streets-Salter, author of * World War One in Southeast Asia: Colonialism and Anticolonialism in an Era of Global Conflict *"This book is an assemblage of key concepts in Pacific histories, topic and primary text suggestions, pedagogical approaches, and discussion-based exercises for the classroom. With its pragmatic approaches to pedagogy, this book would be useful for environmentally minded educators who seek to integrate transnational, decolonial, and Indigenous perspectives in understanding environmental history, literature, and social movements." -- Heidi Amin-Hong * ISLE *“A Primer for Teaching Pacific Histories outlines a course with a rich, welcome, and innovative historical perspective on the broader Pacific region.” -- David Hanlon * Contemporary Pacific *“In A Primer for Teaching Pacific Histories, Matt Matsuda offers guidance on course structure, themes for inquiry, and resources to consult. The author’s multitude of overarching main ideas and supporting examples supply enough fundamentals for instructors working outside of their comfort zone as well as seasoned scholars looking for new perspectives.” -- Michelle Ladwig Williams * Pacific Affairs *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments vii Introduction: Objectives 1 Part I. Foundations 1. Begin with the State of Our Knowledge 19 2. Secure the Fundamentals: Navigation, Diaspora, Settlement 25 3. Underscore the Connections: Encounters in the Contact Zone 33 4. Review Disputed Legacies and Arguments 51 Part II. Devising Strategies 5. Imperialism as a Teaching Tool 67 6. Anthropology and Ethnology as Teaching Tools 89 7. Conflict as a Teaching Tool 95 8. Identity as a Teaching Tool 105 Part III. Performed Histories 9. Distinguish Representations and Realities 113 10. See the Process of Enacting Knowledge 121 Notes 145 Selected Bibliography 155 Index 161
£21.59
Duke University Press Radiation Sounds
Book SynopsisJessica A. Schwartz examines the seventy-five years of Marshallese music developed in response to the United States’ nuclear weapons testing on their homeland, showing how Marshallese singing practices make heard the harmful effects of US nuclear violence.Trade Review“In this fascinating ethnography of singing as a sonic politics of Indigenous postcolonial identity, Jessica A. Schwartz reveals the intimate historical relations between aurality and nuclear war. Ambitious and unique, Radiation Sounds brings the sensory materialities of ‘the bomb’ home to the lives lived and songs sung in its shadow.” -- David Novak, author of * Japanoise: Music at the Edge of Circulation *"This is a very sophisticated and well-researched book, enriched by the sharing of personal experience and observations that illuminate the research relationships that form its foundation. . . . This book will be of interest to a wide range of scholars: historians, political scientists, anthropologists, Pacific studies, gender studies, and disaster studies scholars, in addition to ethnomusicologists and dance ethnologists. In teaching, it would be a good resource for graduate students." -- Kirsty Gillespie * Yearbook for Traditional Music *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction: "It Was the Sound That Terrified Us" 1 1. Radioactive Citizenship: Voices of the Nation 41 2. Precarious Harmonies 83 3. MORIBA: "Everything Is in God's Hands" 131 4. Uwaañañ (Spirited Noise) 170 5. Anemkwōj 211 Notes 253 Bibliography 273 Index 287
£75.65
Duke University Press See How We Roll
Book SynopsisIn See How We Roll Melinda Hinkson follows the experiences of Nungarrayi, a Warlpiri woman from the Central Australian desert, as she struggles to establish a new life for herself in the city of Adelaide. Banished from her hometown, Nungarrayi energetically navigates promises of transformation as well as sedimented racialized expectations on the urban streets. Drawing on a decades-long friendship, Hinkson explores these circumstances through Nungarrayi''s relationships: those between her country and kin that sustain and confound life beyond the desert, those that regulate her marginalized citizenship, and the new friendships called out by displacement and metropolitan life. An intimate ethnography, See How We Roll provides great insight into the enduring violence of the settler colonial state while illuminating the efforts of Indigenous people to create lives of dignity and shared purpose in the face of turbulence, grief, and tightening governmental controls.Trade Review“Reflecting on issues of migration, exile, and life under continuing settler occupation in Australia, Melinda Hinkson brings into view the quotidian pressures and moments of joy for diasporic Warlpiri communities while pushing against anthropology's too hasty withdrawal from accounts of place-based difference. Her ruminations on ethnographic representation and theories of identity and place will bring long-standing anthropological debates to a new level of vulnerability and exposure.” -- Tess Lea, author of * Wild Policy: Indigeneity and the Unruly Logics of Intervention *“Melinda Hinkson communicates the massive sense of grief and loss that underlies contemporary Indigenous life in Central Australia while addressing the drastic and changing policies that the Australian government has imposed on Indigenous people. With her extended attention to Indigenous life in new conditions, Hinkson engages with social life in a framework that allows for its considerations in terms of global processes. An intimate and nuanced exploration of life lived in difficult circumstances, See How We Roll is a singular and beautifully executed book.” -- Fred R. Myers, author of * Painting Culture: The Making of an Aboriginal High Art *"This book will be of considerable interest to students and scholars of settler colonialism and contemporary configurations of indigeneity, including the continued relevance of place in reconfigured social and cultural worlds. Recommended. Advanced undergraduates through faculty; professionals." -- C. J. MacKenzie * Choice *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments vii Introduction: In and Out of Place 1 1. Journeying With 23 2. Staking New Ground 43 3. Between Here and There 67 4. Ties That Bind 93 5. Forces of Containment 117 6. See How We Roll 141 7. Free to the World 157 Afterword 179 Notes 183 Bibliography 205 Index 221
£72.25
University of Nebraska Press Illicit Love
Book SynopsisIllicit Love is a history of love, sex, and marriage between Indigenous peoples and settler citizens at the heart of two settler colonial nations, the United States and Australia. Award-winning historian Ann McGrath illuminates interracial relationships from the late eighteenth to the early twentieth century through stories of romance, courtship, and marriage between Indigenous peoples and colonizers in times of nation formation.Illicit Love reveals how marriage itself was used by disparate parties for both empowerment and disempowerment and how it came to embody the contradictions of imperialism. A tour de force of settler colonial history, McGrath’s study demonstrates vividly how interracial relationships between Indigenous and colonizing peoples were more frequent and threatening to nation-states in the Atlantic and the Pacific worlds than historians have previously acknowledged. Trade Review“The real drama in Illicit Love lies with the lovers, in relationships, not regulations. . . . McGrath’s ‘love’—both for and between her characters—gives a depth to this fresh and sometimes dazzling book that must resonate with us all.”—Lisa Ford, American Historical Review "McGrath simultaneously provides a broad examination of intermarriage law on two continents and breathes life into the intimate relationships forged between men and women of many races and communities. . . . Illicit Love is a powerful testament to the power of personal stories to complicate our understanding of larger historical processes."—James Joseph Buss, Western Historical Quarterly“This is a beautiful book, a tale of family, racial mixture, and identity in two settler colonial societies. . . . McGrath’s stories of love and marriage across the color line, told in luminous prose, will delight. . . . Illicit Love ought to be a prizewinner.”—Paul Spickard, author of Race in Mind“Read this book to explore both the direct and the twisted paths linking marriage and sovereignty, in richly detailed case studies spanning two disparate continents on both of which racial hierarchy characterized settler colonialism.”—Nancy F. Cott, Jonathan Trumbull Professor of American History, Harvard University“Superbly researched and imaginatively presented, McGrath’s reconstruction of stories of marriages and sexual intimacies across the lines of race and domination between settler-colonial and indigenous peoples in the U.S. and Australia, is a remarkable instance of interleaving of the two ‘national’ histories. . . . This doubly trans-national history has an unmistakable element of freshness about it that readers will no doubt welcome.”—Dipesh Chakrabarty, Lawrence A. Kimpton Distinguished Service Professor of History at the University of Chicago and the author of The Calling of History: Sir Jadunath Sarkar and His Empire of Truth“Ann McGrath’s brilliant history of intermarriage in the new nations of America and Australia reads like a novel. She uncovers hidden stories of forbidden love between settlers and Indigenous men and women that both shaped and confounded the colonial project. Writing in a style as tender as the very intimacies she describes, McGrath has created a model of how to wed private with political histories.”—Margaret Jacobs, author of White Mother to a Dark Race and A Generation Removed“Ann McGrath reminds us that ‘weddings’ have long mixed politics and intimate passions in the interests of family, tribe, and nation. Heart-wrenching stories and subtle distinctions are laid bare in fine prose, and we find the kinship between Australia and the United States even closer than we might have thought.”—James F. Brooks, author of Captives and Cousins: Slavery, Kinship, and Community in the Southwest Borderlands“This is a convincing and lively analysis of how marriage helped create the modern nation. Using case studies from the Cherokee Nation and northern Australia, McGrath deftly makes the case for the key role played by marriage in settler colony histories. McGrath’s moving account is transnational history at its best.”—Philippa Levine, author of The British Empire, Sunrise to Sunset and Gender and Empire“Investigating marriages between the colonized and their colonizers, Illicit Love is an astonishing transnational history of transgression, revealing intertwined lives and irreconcilable ideas, courage and conflict, denial and defiance, secrets and surveillance, love and violence. . . . McGrath asks novel questions, tells untold stories, and writes a new history of empire. This innovative and inventive work will itself open up new worlds for its readers.”—Martha Hodes, author of White Women, Black Men: Illicit Sex in the Nineteenth-Century South“Illicit Love is a stunning piece of comparative history. With the storytelling abilities of a novelist, and the detective skills of the accomplished historian that she is, Ann McGrath reveals how interracial relationships stirred a myriad of emotions among nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Americans and Australians, and raised what became enduring questions about the meaning of Cherokee and Aboriginal identities.”—Gregory Smithers, author of Science, Sexuality, and Race in the United States and Australia, 1780s–1890sTable of ContentsList of IllustrationsPreface: Flowers for the BrideAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: A Perfect Marriage?Part 1. Secrets of New Nations1. Harriett Gold and Elias Boudinot: Against History?2. Ernest Gribble and JeanniePart 2. Marriage and Modernity among the Cherokees3. Socrates, Cherokee Sovereignty, and the Regulation of White Men4. John Ross and Mary Bryan StaplerPart 3. Queensland’s Marital Middle Ground5. Husbands under Surveillance6. Consent and Aboriginal WivesPart 4. Embodying New Worlds7. Polygamy’s New Worlds8. Entwined Sovereignties and the Great UnweddingEpilogue: Transnational FamiliesNotesBibliographyIndex
£25.19
University of Nebraska Press Everywhen
Book SynopsisEverywhen is a groundbreaking collection about diverse ways of conceiving, knowing, and narrating time and deep history. Looking beyond the linear documentary past of Western or academic history, this collection asks how knowledge systems of Australia’s Aboriginals and Torres Strait Islanders can broaden our understandings of the past and of historical practice. Indigenous embodied practices for knowing, narrating, and reenacting the past in the present blur the distinctions of linear time, making all history now. Ultimately, questions of time and language are questions of Indigenous sovereignty. The Australian case is especially pertinent because Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people are among the few Native peoples without a treaty with their colonizers. Appreciating First Nations’ time concepts embedded in languages and practices, as Everywhen does, is a route to recognizing diverse forms of Indigenous sovereignties.ETrade Review“Everywhen seeks a beyond: beyond colonial temporalities of progress and linearity, beyond the prehistorical ‘ancient,’ and into a newly defined Deep History that is, by its very nature, Indigenous. There, the meeting of time, land, and language offer challenging new analytical insights that demand a radical reorientation of the way we think and write about the past. . . . Ann McGrath, Laura Rademaker, and Jakelin Troy have assembled a stunning volume, rich in thought-provoking ideas and debate.”—Philip Deloria, Leverett Saltonstall Professor of History at Harvard University“A stellar lineup of renowned researchers reveals the extraordinary richness of Indigenous conceptualizations of the past and its relationship to the present with nuanced, focused, and meaningful translations.”—Lynette Russell, Kathleen Fitzpatrick Laureate Fellow at Monash University“This engaging volume illuminates Aboriginal understanding of the deep past . . . through considerations of language, story, song, dance, engravings on the landscape. Indigenous temporalities rooted in storied places challenge Western notions of linearity.”—Jean O’Brien, Distinguished McKnight University Professor of History at the University of Minnesota“This insightful book centers the deep-time sense of belonging of Indigenous people in Australia, who trace their ancestral connections back at least sixty-five thousand years. . . . The contributors emphasize how Indigenous conceptions of time rest on a profound kinship with the land and water and how Indigenous practices of history value stories of continuity and persistence more than rupture.”—Margaret Jacobs, Charles Mach Professor of History at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln and co-director of the Genoa Indian School Digital Reconciliation Project“Everywhen melts divisions between present and past, bringing current knowledge to understanding the vast early stories of the continent now known as Australia. It melds ways of knowing and understanding and brings important recognition of Indigenous authorities.”—Claire Bowern, professor of linguistics at Yale University“Everywhen is a project of great nuance, thoughtfulness, and reconciliatory vision. The scholarship is original and the research is outstanding in both its theoretical engagement and substantive sourcing. . . . The Aboriginal voices that emerge from these pages allow readers to engage wise, creative, and important perspectives.”—James Carson, professor and chair of the Department of History at Queen’s UniversityTable of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments The Languages and Temporalities of “Everywhen” in Deep History Ann McGrath and Laura Rademaker Part 1. Songs of Country in Time 1. Standing on the Ground and Writing on the Sky: An Indigenous Exploration of Place, Time, and Histories Jakelin Troy 2. Bugarrigarra Nyurdany, Because of the Dreaming: A Discussion of Time and Place in Yawuru Cosmology Sarah Yu with Yawuru Community Members Dianne Appleby, Lloyd Pigram, and Thomas Edgar 3. Old Dogs and Ice Ages in Noongar Country Clint Bracknell 4. Songs and the Deep Present Linda Barwick Part 2. Time’s Archive? The Language of Words 5. Yirriyengburnama-langwa mamawura-langwa: Talking about Time in Anindilyakwa James Bednall 6. Australian Languages and the Deep Past Michael Walsh and Harold Koch 7. Time, Language, and Thought: What Language Can Tell Us about Our Concepts of Time000 Marie-Eve Ritz and Maïa Ponsonnet Part 3. Transforming Times 8. Innovation, Continuity, and the Punctuated Temporality of Archaeological Narratives Catherine J. Frieman 9. Across “Koori Time” and Space John Maynard 10. Early European Mariners at Cape Keerweer: Bespoke Variations of an Aboriginal Legend 000 Peter Sutton 11. Time and Eternity: Aboriginal and Missionary Conversations about Temporality Laura Rademaker 12. On the Shores of the Narinya: Contemporary D’harawal Interactions with Ancestral Knowledges Shannon Foster Contributors Index
£45.00
University of Nebraska Press When Women Ruled the Pacific
Book SynopsisThroughout the nineteenth century British and American imperialists advanced into the Pacific, with catastrophic effects for Polynesian peoples and cultures. In both Tahiti and Hawai‘i, women rulers attempted to mitigate the effects of these encounters, utilizing their power amid the destabilizing influence of the English and Americans. However, as the century progressed, foreign diseases devastated the Tahitian and Hawaiian populations, and powerful European militaries jockeyed for more formal imperial control over Polynesian waystations, causing Tahiti to cede rule to France in 1847 and Hawai‘i to relinquish power to the United States in 1893. In When Women Ruled the Pacific Joy Schulz highlights four Polynesian women rulers who held enormous domestic and foreign power and expertly governed their people amid shifting loyalties, outright betrayals, and the ascendancy of imperial racism. Like their European counterparts, these Polynesian rulers fought argTrade Review“Compelling, deeply researched, and beautifully written. When Women Ruled the Pacific addresses an area of history that has been underserved by existing literature. Joy Schulz has found a really intriguing historical situation with the case of the four queens and has written an excellent book.”—Emily Manktelow, author of Gender, Power, and Sexual Abuse in the Pacific: Rev. Simpson’s “Improper Liberties”“A smartly written text that makes wide-ranging use of a robust set of primary archives. Joy Schulz’s impressive command of the vast and varied primary sources for the figures she examines is evident throughout the text. More, Schulz’s multidisciplinary approach informs and permeates her study.”—Jennifer Thigpen, author of Island Queens and Mission Wives: How Gender and Empire Remade Hawai‘i’s Pacific WorldTable of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction: Woman in Red 1. Purea 2. ‘Aimata 3. Ka‘ahumanu 4. Lili‘uokalani Conclusion: To All the Queens Appendix A: Partial Letter from Pōmare to Queen Victoria (1844) Appendix B: Queen Lili‘uokalani’s Formal Protest to the United States against the Annexation Treaty (1897) Notes Bibliography Index
£35.10
University of Nebraska Press Hoarding New Guinea
Book SynopsisHoarding New Guinea provides a new cultural history of colonialism that pays close attention to the millions of Indigenous artifacts that serve as witnesses to Europe’s colonial past in ethnographic museums. Rainer F. Buschmann investigates the roughly two hundred thousand artifacts extracted from the colony of German New Guinea from 1870 to 1920. Reversing the typical trajectories that place ethnographic museums at the center of the analysis, he concludes that museum interests in material culture alone cannot account for the large quantities of extracted artifacts. Buschmann moves beyond the easy definition of artifacts as trophies of colonial defeat or religious conversion, instead employing the term hoarding to describe the irrational amassing of Indigenous artifacts by European colonial residents. Buschmann also highlights Indigenous material culture as a bargaining chip for its producers to engage with the imposed colonial regime. In addition, by ceTrade Review"This book will fascinate scholars in museum studies, postcolonial studies, memory studies, cultural geography, and anyone interested in tracing the history of material culture. Beyond the case study and geographic focus, this scholarship will also inform explorations into local colonial collections in other parts of the world, from Africa to Canada. By making space for Indigenous actions and reactions, the study will become a model for the decentering of historical studies on colonial artifacts."—Hélène B. Ducros, EuropeNow“Hoarding New Guinea manages to be both historically grounded and also attuned to contemporary recognitions of Indigenous agency. The book’s findings and conclusions are sobering, surprising, and illuminating in equal measure, and a refreshing corrective to much superficial postcolonial writing that simplifies and flattens the complexities of the colonial encounter.”—Conal McCarthy, author of Museums and Māori: Heritage Professionals, Indigenous Collections, Current Practice“This book establishes its topical focus—the hoarding of New Guinea—in a sound analysis of colonial ethnographic collection histories, thus grounding the critique of the present and potential reimagination of the future in a nuanced understanding of the past. Such careful and detailed work is much needed, long overdue, and highly important. It will be of interest to museum scholars as well as professionals and students.”—Philipp Schorch, author of Refocusing Ethnographic Museums through Oceanic LensesTable of ContentsList of Illustrations Series Editors’ Introduction Acknowledgments Introduction 1. The Itinerant Yet Stubbornly Stable European Value of Material Culture, Circa 1870–1920 2. Ethnographic Resident Collection Networks in German New Guinea 3. Contested Indigenous Borderlands 4. Artifact Exchanges along the Ethnographic Borderlands Conclusion Appendix: Three Ways of Estimating Artifact Extraction from German New Guinea Notes Bibliography Index
£52.70
Cornell University Press Pursuing Respect in the Cannibal Isles
Book SynopsisFull of colorful details and engrossing stories, Pursuing Respect in the Cannibal Isles shows that the aspirations of individual Americans to be recognized as people worthy of others'' respect was a driving force in the global extension of United States influence shortly after the nation''s founding.Nancy Shoemaker contends that what she calls extraterritorial Americans constituted the vanguard of a vast, early US global expansion. Using as her site of historical investigation nineteenth-century Fiji, the cannibal isles of American popular culture, she uncovers stories of Americans looking for opportunities to rise in social status and enhance their sense of self. Prior to British colonization in 1874, extraterritorial Americans had, she argues, as much impact on Fiji as did the British. While the American economy invested in the extraction of sandalwood and sea slugs as resources to sell in China, individuals who went to Fiji had more complicated, personal objectives.Trade ReviewFull of colorful and detailed stories, this study reveals the personal motivations that propelled 19th-century American expansions in the Pacific world. It is an excellent supplement to existing scholarship. * Choice *Shoemaker is a master at microhistory. Delving into ship logs, captains' journals, merchant reports, and consul papers, Shoemaker recreates the voyages and passengers embarking to Fiji in the mid-nineteenth century. * Diplomatic History *In her fascinating new book, Nancy Shoemaker reveals [how]Americans' activities on Fiji had the cumulative effect of extending the global reach of American capitalism and cultural imperialism. * The New England Quarterly *Pursuing Respect in the Cannibal Isles is meticulously researched: Shoemaker makes use of a truly impressive array of sources ranging from diaries and letters to ships' logbooks, official Customs Service Records, consul records, and merchant reports. The book is also masterfully written. Shoemaker takes a close, microhistorical approach to the study of her subjects, conveying in nuanced detail their individual histories, ambitions, and trajectories. * Journal of the Early Republic *Why, in the first half of the nineteenth century, did successive Americans undertake an arduous journey to Fiji, reputedly populated by 'cannibals'? Nancy Shoemaker compellingly argues that to answer this question, historians must foreground individuals' pursuit of 'respect.' Focusing on three New Englanders, Shoemaker weaves an intricate narrative demonstrating how the pursuit of respect drove often seismic changes, replete with detail about individual lives, Pacific commerce, and Fijian politics. * American Nineteenth Century History *In addition to being an exceptional scholar of Native American history, Nancy Shoemaker is among the most ingenious historians of nineteenth-century Americans' engagement with the world. Her scholarship is characterized by scrupulous research and incisive conceptual frameworks that not only enliven her own work but also promise to enrich the scholarship of others. This superb book builds upon her most recent contributions to this endeavor. * Journal of American History *[A] welcome study offering an intimate, personality-driven lens on the US in the Pacific and provides new layers and nuance to a period of significant upheaval in Fiji's 19th-century history. * The Journal of Pacific History *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction: Why Go a Fiji Voyage? 1. Butenam: Knowledge 2. Mata ki Bau: Respect Vakaviti 3. Chief of All the White Men: Character 4. By a Lady: Moral Authority 5. Marama: Social Class 6. This Hell upon Earth: Competence and Wealth 7. Tui America: Power Epilogue: Continuity and Change in U.S.-Fiji Relations Appendix A: Sandalwood Voyages Appendix B: Bêche-de-Mer Voyages Appendix C: Foreign Naval Vessels in Fiji to 1860 Abbreviations Glossary Notes Bibliography Index
£97.20
Cornell University Press Pursuing Respect in the Cannibal Isles
Book SynopsisFull of colorful details and engrossing stories, Pursuing Respect in the Cannibal Isles shows that the aspirations of individual Americans to be recognized as people worthy of others'' respect was a driving force in the global extension of United States influence shortly after the nation''s founding.Nancy Shoemaker contends that what she calls extraterritorial Americans constituted the vanguard of a vast, early US global expansion. Using as her site of historical investigation nineteenth-century Fiji, the cannibal isles of American popular culture, she uncovers stories of Americans looking for opportunities to rise in social status and enhance their sense of self. Prior to British colonization in 1874, extraterritorial Americans had, she argues, as much impact on Fiji as did the British. While the American economy invested in the extraction of sandalwood and sea slugs as resources to sell in China, individuals who went to Fiji had more complicated, personal objectives.Trade ReviewFull of colorful and detailed stories, this study reveals the personal motivations that propelled 19th-century American expansions in the Pacific world. It is an excellent supplement to existing scholarship. * Choice *Shoemaker is a master at microhistory. Delving into ship logs, captains' journals, merchant reports, and consul papers, Shoemaker recreates the voyages and passengers embarking to Fiji in the mid-nineteenth century. * Diplomatic History *In her fascinating new book, Nancy Shoemaker reveals [how]Americans' activities on Fiji had the cumulative effect of extending the global reach of American capitalism and cultural imperialism. * The New England Quarterly *Pursuing Respect in the Cannibal Isles is meticulously researched: Shoemaker makes use of a truly impressive array of sources ranging from diaries and letters to ships' logbooks, official Customs Service Records, consul records, and merchant reports. The book is also masterfully written. Shoemaker takes a close, microhistorical approach to the study of her subjects, conveying in nuanced detail their individual histories, ambitions, and trajectories. * Journal of the Early Republic *Why, in the first half of the nineteenth century, did successive Americans undertake an arduous journey to Fiji, reputedly populated by 'cannibals'? Nancy Shoemaker compellingly argues that to answer this question, historians must foreground individuals' pursuit of 'respect.' Focusing on three New Englanders, Shoemaker weaves an intricate narrative demonstrating how the pursuit of respect drove often seismic changes, replete with detail about individual lives, Pacific commerce, and Fijian politics. * American Nineteenth Century History *In addition to being an exceptional scholar of Native American history, Nancy Shoemaker is among the most ingenious historians of nineteenth-century Americans' engagement with the world. Her scholarship is characterized by scrupulous research and incisive conceptual frameworks that not only enliven her own work but also promise to enrich the scholarship of others. This superb book builds upon her most recent contributions to this endeavor. * Journal of American History *[A] welcome study offering an intimate, personality-driven lens on the US in the Pacific and provides new layers and nuance to a period of significant upheaval in Fiji's 19th-century history. * The Journal of Pacific History *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction: Why Go a Fiji Voyage? 1. Butenam: Knowledge 2. Mata ki Bau: Respect Vakaviti 3. Chief of All the White Men: Character 4. By a Lady: Moral Authority 5. Marama: Social Class 6. This Hell upon Earth: Competence and Wealth 7. Tui America: Power Epilogue: Continuity and Change in U.S.-Fiji Relations Appendix A: Sandalwood Voyages Appendix B: Bêche-de-Mer Voyages Appendix C: Foreign Naval Vessels in Fiji to 1860 Abbreviations Glossary Notes Bibliography Index
£26.59
Stanford University Press Risky Shores: Savagery and Colonialism in the
Book SynopsisWhy did the so-called "Cannibal Isles" of the Western Pacific fascinate Europeans for so long? Spanning three centuries—from Captain James Cook's death on a Hawaiian beach in 1779 to the end of World War II in 1945—this book considers the category of "the savage" in the context of British Empire in the Western Pacific, reassessing the conduct of Islanders and the English-speaking strangers who encountered them. Sensationalized depictions of Melanesian "savages" as cannibals and headhunters created a unifying sense of Britishness during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. These exotic people inhabited the edges of empire—and precisely because they did, Britons who never had and never would leave the home islands could imagine their nation's imperial reach. George Behlmer argues that Britain's early visitors to the Pacific—mainly cartographers and missionaries—wielded the notion of savagery to justify their own interests. But savage talk was not simply a way to objectify and marginalize native populations: it would later serve also to emphasize the fragility of indigenous cultures. Behlmer by turns considers cannibalism, headhunting, missionary activity, the labor trade, and Westerners' preoccupation with the perceived "primitiveness" of indigenous cultures, arguing that British representations of savagery were not merely straightforward expressions of colonial power, but also belied home-grown fears of social disorder.Trade Review"George Behlmer has produced a formidable work of scholarship, drawing on a daunting array of sources and a career's worth of writing on British social and intellectual history. In sparkling, seamless prose, Risky Shores offers fresh insights into the cultural encounters between the British and the Melanesians, and the layered meanings these encounters accrued in the British, and more broadly Western, imagination." -- Dane Kennedy * George Washington University *"Risky Shores is a wonderful book: beautifully researched, compellingly written, and vitally important to debates about race relations and agency in the Pacific world. Focusing on southwestern Melanesia, Behlmer analyzes a dazzling array of primary source material, enhancing more conventional explorers' journals and missionary reports with his impressive command of ballads, artwork, films, sideshow acts, and literature. The result is an intellectual feast." -- Jane Samson * University of Alberta *"George Behlmer's expansive Risky Shores addresses fascinating issues and raises many important questions, both directly and indirectly....For its extraordinary wealth of research, for the deftly chosen examples and the effective interpretation of those within a larger historical framework, this is essential reading for those interested in this part of the world or in the power structures and mechanisms of imperialism." -- Amy Woodson-Boulton * The Pacific Circle *Table of ContentsContents and AbstractsIntroduction: The Protean Savage chapter abstractThe killing of Captain James Cook on a Hawaiian beach in 1779 marked the end of a heralded set of voyages and the start of a close association between Oceania and human savagery. "Savagery," in fact, was the idea that connected most forms of spectacular violence. From their strangling of widows to their smothering of babies, from their incessant headhunting to their endemic cannibalism, western Pacific peoples appeared to embody barbarism more completely than any other "race" on earth. What European visitors to Melanesia rarely stopped to consider, though, was that the barbarism on display in these maligned islands often functioned as an expression of indigenous agency. Viewed instrumentally, then, Islander "atrocities" could serve both to warn away white strangers and demonstrate their superiority over rival tribes. 1Island Stories of the Cannibal Kind chapter abstractToday, most anthropologists, literary critics, and cultural historians agree that "ritual" cannibalism—man-eating for reasons other than survival—was quite rare in the past. This was decidedly not the belief of reading audiences in nineteenth-century Britain and her settler colonies. On the contrary, "cannibal" became a proxy word for "savage," whereas the phrase "cannibal isles" served to locate western Pacific peoples in an undifferentiated sea of depravity. Especially during the Victorian era, a steady stream of missionary reports, naturalists' notes, and travel narratives kept the phenomenon of man-eating constantly before a sensation-hungry public. Indeed, the "cannibal" label was applied indiscriminately to all sorts of offenders, from drunks who bit one another in pub brawls to carnivores who ridiculed vegetarian diets. 2Missionary Martyrs of Melanesia chapter abstractTo Victorian moralists, the deaths of those who obeyed a higher justice were lamentable yet essential. In the missionary field above all, the "martyrdom" of proselytizing Christians helped both to sanctify their work on the edges of empire and to open purses back home. The "cannibal isles" of the western Pacific supplied the nineteenth century's most poignant missionary deaths. The murders there of three Protestant martyrs—John Williams, Thomas Baker, and John Coleridge Patteson—did instantiate the savagery of Melanesian "natives." But to depict these missionaries as agents of the colonial state is to misunderstand how they approached hazardous frontiers. 3Indentured Labor and the White Savage chapter abstractAlthough religious propaganda stressed the degraded ignorance of those Pacific Islanders who lashed out against missionaries, traders, and planters, a close examination of these attacks reveals their basic rationality. A full generation after Britain had abolished slavery in her colonies, renegade "white savages" were conducting a brutal trade in the western Pacific that proved very difficult for the Royal Navy to police. This trade, commonly called "blackbirding," repulsed such Victorian luminaries as Gladstone, Robert Louis Stevenson, and the Queen herself. But in one trial after another, prosecutors found that meeting the legal standard for "kidnapping" was a daunting task. Not until 1907 did legislation finally close the legal loopholes that had allowed labor-recruiting vessels in Melanesian waters to mock the notion of British colonial benevolence. 4The Twilight of Headhunting chapter abstractA staple of Victorian adventure stories as well as an arresting subject for the new discipline of anthropology, headhunting was arguably the most exotic of savage customs. But in Melanesia, and especially around the great lagoons that dot the western half of the Solomon archipelago, headhunting possessed few romantic associations. The formidable tomako (an oceangoing war canoe) had long inspired dread among peaceful Islanders. Beginning around 1880, however, European rifles enabled headhunting big-men such as "Soga" and "Ingava" to wipe out entire settlements. The subsequent struggle to pacify the Solomons demanded not only Royal Navy cannons but also strategic bribes from colonial administrators. 5Among "Stone-Age" Savages chapter abstractThe eradication of Solomon Island headhunting and Fijian cannibalism by the start of the twentieth century cut two ways. For even as British traders and colonial officials cheered the end of such savage practices, a eugenic lament about the "loss of nerve" and a vanishing "will to fight" among once-fierce Islanders grew widespread. This dying native discourse gave rise, in turn, to a determined search for the last remaining "true" savages. Among the homes of these reclusive folk, two earned fame during the 1920s and 1930s: Malekula island in the northern New Hebrides, and the vast highland interior of New Guinea. Purportedly survivals of the Stone-Age, these peoples became the focus of Western theorizing about the origins of violence among human groups. Conclusion: Savage Inversions chapter abstractVictory in the Pacific theater of World War Two hinged on the control of key islands. Enter what became known as the "Fuzzy Wuzzy Angels." These were Pacific Islanders whose "bushcraft" skills made them invaluable to the Allied war effort. In the Solomons, for example, these scouts helped hound the Japanese off Guadalcanal. The dramatic story of Jacob Vouza, hero to both British "coastwatchers" and the U.S. Marines, inverted white perceptions of Islander capacity.
£92.80
Stanford University Press Risky Shores: Savagery and Colonialism in the
Book SynopsisWhy did the so-called "Cannibal Isles" of the Western Pacific fascinate Europeans for so long? Spanning three centuries—from Captain James Cook's death on a Hawaiian beach in 1779 to the end of World War II in 1945—this book considers the category of "the savage" in the context of British Empire in the Western Pacific, reassessing the conduct of Islanders and the English-speaking strangers who encountered them. Sensationalized depictions of Melanesian "savages" as cannibals and headhunters created a unifying sense of Britishness during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. These exotic people inhabited the edges of empire—and precisely because they did, Britons who never had and never would leave the home islands could imagine their nation's imperial reach. George Behlmer argues that Britain's early visitors to the Pacific—mainly cartographers and missionaries—wielded the notion of savagery to justify their own interests. But savage talk was not simply a way to objectify and marginalize native populations: it would later serve also to emphasize the fragility of indigenous cultures. Behlmer by turns considers cannibalism, headhunting, missionary activity, the labor trade, and Westerners' preoccupation with the perceived "primitiveness" of indigenous cultures, arguing that British representations of savagery were not merely straightforward expressions of colonial power, but also belied home-grown fears of social disorder.Trade Review"George Behlmer has produced a formidable work of scholarship, drawing on a daunting array of sources and a career's worth of writing on British social and intellectual history. In sparkling, seamless prose, Risky Shores offers fresh insights into the cultural encounters between the British and the Melanesians, and the layered meanings these encounters accrued in the British, and more broadly Western, imagination." -- Dane Kennedy * George Washington University *"Risky Shores is a wonderful book: beautifully researched, compellingly written, and vitally important to debates about race relations and agency in the Pacific world. Focusing on southwestern Melanesia, Behlmer analyzes a dazzling array of primary source material, enhancing more conventional explorers' journals and missionary reports with his impressive command of ballads, artwork, films, sideshow acts, and literature. The result is an intellectual feast." -- Jane Samson * University of Alberta *"George Behlmer's expansive Risky Shores addresses fascinating issues and raises many important questions, both directly and indirectly....For its extraordinary wealth of research, for the deftly chosen examples and the effective interpretation of those within a larger historical framework, this is essential reading for those interested in this part of the world or in the power structures and mechanisms of imperialism." -- Amy Woodson-Boulton * The Pacific Circle *Table of ContentsContents and AbstractsIntroduction: The Protean Savage chapter abstractThe killing of Captain James Cook on a Hawaiian beach in 1779 marked the end of a heralded set of voyages and the start of a close association between Oceania and human savagery. "Savagery," in fact, was the idea that connected most forms of spectacular violence. From their strangling of widows to their smothering of babies, from their incessant headhunting to their endemic cannibalism, western Pacific peoples appeared to embody barbarism more completely than any other "race" on earth. What European visitors to Melanesia rarely stopped to consider, though, was that the barbarism on display in these maligned islands often functioned as an expression of indigenous agency. Viewed instrumentally, then, Islander "atrocities" could serve both to warn away white strangers and demonstrate their superiority over rival tribes. 1Island Stories of the Cannibal Kind chapter abstractToday, most anthropologists, literary critics, and cultural historians agree that "ritual" cannibalism—man-eating for reasons other than survival—was quite rare in the past. This was decidedly not the belief of reading audiences in nineteenth-century Britain and her settler colonies. On the contrary, "cannibal" became a proxy word for "savage," whereas the phrase "cannibal isles" served to locate western Pacific peoples in an undifferentiated sea of depravity. Especially during the Victorian era, a steady stream of missionary reports, naturalists' notes, and travel narratives kept the phenomenon of man-eating constantly before a sensation-hungry public. Indeed, the "cannibal" label was applied indiscriminately to all sorts of offenders, from drunks who bit one another in pub brawls to carnivores who ridiculed vegetarian diets. 2Missionary Martyrs of Melanesia chapter abstractTo Victorian moralists, the deaths of those who obeyed a higher justice were lamentable yet essential. In the missionary field above all, the "martyrdom" of proselytizing Christians helped both to sanctify their work on the edges of empire and to open purses back home. The "cannibal isles" of the western Pacific supplied the nineteenth century's most poignant missionary deaths. The murders there of three Protestant martyrs—John Williams, Thomas Baker, and John Coleridge Patteson—did instantiate the savagery of Melanesian "natives." But to depict these missionaries as agents of the colonial state is to misunderstand how they approached hazardous frontiers. 3Indentured Labor and the White Savage chapter abstractAlthough religious propaganda stressed the degraded ignorance of those Pacific Islanders who lashed out against missionaries, traders, and planters, a close examination of these attacks reveals their basic rationality. A full generation after Britain had abolished slavery in her colonies, renegade "white savages" were conducting a brutal trade in the western Pacific that proved very difficult for the Royal Navy to police. This trade, commonly called "blackbirding," repulsed such Victorian luminaries as Gladstone, Robert Louis Stevenson, and the Queen herself. But in one trial after another, prosecutors found that meeting the legal standard for "kidnapping" was a daunting task. Not until 1907 did legislation finally close the legal loopholes that had allowed labor-recruiting vessels in Melanesian waters to mock the notion of British colonial benevolence. 4The Twilight of Headhunting chapter abstractA staple of Victorian adventure stories as well as an arresting subject for the new discipline of anthropology, headhunting was arguably the most exotic of savage customs. But in Melanesia, and especially around the great lagoons that dot the western half of the Solomon archipelago, headhunting possessed few romantic associations. The formidable tomako (an oceangoing war canoe) had long inspired dread among peaceful Islanders. Beginning around 1880, however, European rifles enabled headhunting big-men such as "Soga" and "Ingava" to wipe out entire settlements. The subsequent struggle to pacify the Solomons demanded not only Royal Navy cannons but also strategic bribes from colonial administrators. 5Among "Stone-Age" Savages chapter abstractThe eradication of Solomon Island headhunting and Fijian cannibalism by the start of the twentieth century cut two ways. For even as British traders and colonial officials cheered the end of such savage practices, a eugenic lament about the "loss of nerve" and a vanishing "will to fight" among once-fierce Islanders grew widespread. This dying native discourse gave rise, in turn, to a determined search for the last remaining "true" savages. Among the homes of these reclusive folk, two earned fame during the 1920s and 1930s: Malekula island in the northern New Hebrides, and the vast highland interior of New Guinea. Purportedly survivals of the Stone-Age, these peoples became the focus of Western theorizing about the origins of violence among human groups. Conclusion: Savage Inversions chapter abstractVictory in the Pacific theater of World War Two hinged on the control of key islands. Enter what became known as the "Fuzzy Wuzzy Angels." These were Pacific Islanders whose "bushcraft" skills made them invaluable to the Allied war effort. In the Solomons, for example, these scouts helped hound the Japanese off Guadalcanal. The dramatic story of Jacob Vouza, hero to both British "coastwatchers" and the U.S. Marines, inverted white perceptions of Islander capacity.
£23.79
