Australasian and Pacific history Books
Harvard University Press Coconut Colonialism
Book SynopsisSamoans had been engaged in economic and cultural exchange long before Germans and Americans arrived on the islands. Holger Droessler shows how Samoans adapted their traditions to challenge the new globalization imposed on them by colonialism, regaining agency through the efforts of farm workers, nurses, and traveling entertainers alike.Trade ReviewThis is a significant and provocative book that is essential reading for anyone interested in colonialism in the South Pacific. -- Paul Shankman * Pacific Affairs *Coconut Colonialism is a brilliant new work that captures a confluence of histories centered on the critical German colony of Samoa. It interrogates the globalizing moment brought by colonialism and capitalism, and laid bare in its encounters with indigenous Samoa. It is a global moment seized not only by colonial agents and commercial enterprise but contested by those they sought to dominate and exploit. Threaded with an angle of vision that centers Samoa’s colonized, its workers and subjects, Coconut Colonialism offers powerful new insights into both the local and global natures of colonialism. Coconut Colonialism is a critical contribution to our understanding and knowledge of Samoa, of German colonialism in particular and of the practices of colonialism writ more broadly. -- Damon Salesa, author of Island Time: New Zealand’s Pacific FuturesBased on thorough and extensive research across multiple empires and regions, Droessler provides a strong history of the impacts of colonization and actions of native peoples, as well as histories of capitalism and labor in the Samoan region from the late nineteenth century through the end of World War II. This book is a great addition to the much needed scholarship on the Samoan region and the global influence of its people. -- Joanna Poblete, author of Balancing the Tides: Marine Practices in American SāmoaCoconut Colonialism makes for fascinating reading on a much-neglected part of the German and US empires, the Pacific islands of Samoa. Richly documented, this study foregrounds the perspective of Samoan workers whose strategies of accommodation, and of resistance, come fully alive. An important contribution to the literature on colonialism and capitalism. -- Sebastian Conrad, Freie Universität Berlin
£31.46
Princeton University Press One Day That Shook the Communist World
Book SynopsisOn October 23, 1956, a popular uprising against Soviet rule swept through Hungary like a force of nature, only to be mercilessly crushed by Soviet tanks twelve days later. This book presents an eyewitness account and an history of the uprising in Hungary that heralded the future liberation of Eastern Europe.Trade Review"Based on his own experiences, Lendvai adds a sharp focus to understanding of one of the most important events of the 20th century, the spontaneous Hungarian uprising. He maintains a balanced account of the causes and consequences of this heroic but tragic revolt, including the nonassistance of the Western nations, especially the U.S."--T.M. Racz, Choice "Lendvai's approach and style make this book a particularly welcome addition to the scholarship on the Hungarian revolution... Though the entire book has a great deal to offer the reader ... [the] final chapters, evaluating the legacy of the 1956 uprising, are the ones where Lendvai offers his most striking additions to the history of the revolution."--Eliza Ablovatski, Austrian History Yearbook "Lendvai has produced a sophisticated narrative of complex events, interweaving political, international, military, social, personal, and intellectual history into a thick fabric of historical text. Importantly, he argues that 1956 is an important year in Hungarian, and Western, heritage. Commendably, Lendvai shows his intellectual debt to Hungarian scholars throughout the text. One Day That Shook the Communist World is one of the most readable and best English language accounts of the Hungarian 1956 Uprising."--Laszlo Borhi, Historian "The detail in this work is impressive, the narrative engaging, and the judgments considered."--David W. Lovell, European LegacyTable of ContentsIntroduction 1 Chapter 1: A Day That Shook the Communist World 5 Chapter 2: The Road to Revolution 25 Chapter 3: A Night of Cataclysmic Decisions 45 Chapter 4: The Legend of the Corvinists 55 Chapter 5: Wrestling for the Soul of Imre Nagy 67 Chapter 6: Deadlocked 75 Chapter 7: A Turnaround with a Question Mark 83 Chapter 8: The General, the Colonel, and the Adjutant 89 Chapter 9: The Dams Are Breaking 101 Chapter 10: The Condottiere, the "Uncle," and the Romantics 109 Chapter 11: Decision in the Kremlin: The End of Patience 119 Chapter 12: Double Dive into Darkness 127 Chapter 13: The Puppeteers and the Kadar Enigma 139 Chapter 14: Operation Whirlwind and Kadar's Phantom Government 149 Chapter 15: The Yugoslav-Soviet Conspiracy 163 Chapter 16: The Second Revolution 173 Chapter 17: The Moral Bankruptcy of the U.S. Liberation Theory 185 Chapter 18: Worldwide Reactions 195 Chapter 19: The Barbarous Vendetta of the Victors 211 Chapter 20: 1956-1989: Victory in Defeat? 225 Epilogue: Whose 1956? 241 Acknowledgments 247 Chronology 249 Notes 255 Bibliography 279 Index 285
£19.80
Princeton University Press If You Leave Us Here We Will Die How Genocide
Book SynopsisTells the story of East Timor, a half-island that suffered genocide after Indonesia invaded in 1975, and which was again laid to waste after the population voted for independence from Indonesia in 1999. This title provides a first-person account of the violence, as well as an assessment of the politics and history behind it.Trade Review"Intimate, informed ... the author offers rare insight into the country's internal turmoil. Particularly riveting are Robinson's descriptions of the days preceding the historic vote to separate from Indonesia... Despite the overwhelming brutality of the story, and a bleak assessment of actions from the UN and international community (as much a part of the problem as the solution), Robinson manages to cap his detailed report with a hopeful note."--Publishers Weekly "Robinson's book is thus a valuable addition to the literature on genocide and intervention... [He] has fused his own observations from that harrowing time with a more general history of East Timor to produce a thoughtful and intelligent volume."--Richard Just, New Republic "Robinson was a UN officer stationed in East Timor and his account is illuminating and horrifying."--Billy Heller, New York Post "[A] fine book... [T]hough enlivened by the narrative of Mr Robinson's own time as a participant in and eyewitness to the events described, ['If You Leave Us Here, We Will Die'] is also a subtle and nuanced work of history and analysis."--Economist "[Geoffrey Robinson] is arguably one of the most informed, compassionate outsiders to tell the story of the violence in the small island nation... Even if you don't have much baseline knowledge about the conflicts between these Southeast Asian islands, this book will illuminate the complicated history is accessible terms. Robinson offers crucial perspective on modern colonialism and explores issues of accountability and justice with aplomb."--Brittany Shoot, Feminist Review "Powerful... If You Leave Us Here We Will Die: How Genocide Was Stopped in East Timor is the best account yet of 'a bad year in East Timor'--at least 1500 civilians murdered, 400,000 forced from their homes, 70 per cent of the infrastructure destroyed, the country looted... [Robinson] puts the violence in context, while his witness accounts give the book narrative power."--Tom Hyland, Sydney Morning Herald "Meticulously researched and powerful."--Joshua Kurlantzick, Washington Monthly "There is valuable and thought-provoking material in this book."--Peter Rodgers, The Australian "A compelling body of documentary and first-person evidence that Indonesian military and civilian leaders orchestrated the shocking violence that marred East Timor's birth as a nation... To be sure, it a sad story, but also one in which international intervention ultimately prevented a much greater disaster... Compelling."--Angilee Shah, Zocalo "[A] thoroughly researched, carefully analyzed, and compellingly argued work... Robinson's meticulously crafted book is an important one for experts on Southeast Asia, international affairs, violence, transitional justice, and human rights alike to consider and debate. Its clear writing, historical depth, and strong, yet nuanced analysis also make it highly appropriate for both upper-level undergraduates and graduate students."--Joseph Nevins, Pacific Affairs "[Robinson's] UN role and his history as a scholar and an expert on human rights issues gave him a unique insight into, and knowledge of, events. The result is an account that combines narrative power with detailed assessment to produce an outstanding description and analysis. In examining the events of 1999, the author's use of documents is rigorous and thorough, combining highly effectively with his first-hand reporting."--John Taylor, Asian Affairs "Robinson makes a compelling case that genocides are not beyond human control, which is itself an exceptionally important claim. This book is both an outstanding assessment of East Timor's road to independence and a highly perceptive, if discouraging, reflection on the challenge of humanitarian intervention and genocide prevention."--Roland Burke, Human Rights Quarterly "Robinson's analysis and insight into the period surrounding the independence ballot makes for authoritative and gripping reading."--Helene van Klinken, Inside Indonesia "Robinson, the leading historian of contemporary East Timor, has authored a broad range of scholarly and analytical work on Asia's latest decolonization. He also served as UN political officer in East Timor for six pivotal months in 1999. This allows him to weave together his years of scholarship on East Timor and Indonesia with his own inside experiences, backed by extensive research on the ground. The result is a hybrid memoir and academic book, providing both a powerful personal eyewitness account and incisive scholarship."--David Webster, Canadian Journal of History "[The book] does an excellent job in laying out the complexity of the issues at hand, and in providing practical policy recommendations to overcome some of the difficulties involved... The book is a valuable contribution to the ongoing debate about NATO."--James Cotton, Australian Journal of International Affairs "Robinson's book provides what will surely become one of the definitive sources for genocide scholars seeking to understand the story of East Timor, the causes of the mass violence there and also how it was stopped. One can hardly imagine a person better qualified to tell this story... Thoroughly researched and meticulously documented, Robinson's book is historically rich, politically astute and theoretically nuanced, while never losing its moral clarity. Robinson ably combines history, theory and personal memoir; he writes with conviction and pulls no punches."--Morton Winston, Journal of Genocide Research "[T]he systematic use of terror by Indonesia in East Timor is one of the leitmotivs of this book, and it is around this question that Robinson has made a major contribution to our understanding. Technically this is a well-paced work drawing the reader into the events through historical recall... This book is simply the definitive work on structural violence in East Timor, especially as it relates to the events of 1999, and should be compulsory reading for some of the actors concerned."--Geoffrey C. Gunn, Peace Review "A must-read for anyone interested in Timor-Leste's history."--Foreign Policy "Robinson's position as both a historian and a witness ... gives him the advantage of presenting a fuller view, including his perspective on the ground and the real human interactions of kindness, fear, courage, and resolve among the UN staff and locals, in addition to a scholarly historical account. This fuller perspective is particularly valuable to the legal world... This personal, human aspect is perhaps one the most notable contributions of Robinson's book to the historical documentation of the story of East Timor in Western texts."--Relic Sun, Journal of International Law and Politics "[T]his book is a rich and unique contribution to the study of East Timor, and political violence more generally... Robinson provides insight not only into the challenges that international interventions encounter on the ground but also the importance of persevering in spite of the challenges."--Jessica N. Trisko, Yale Journal of International AffairsTable of ContentsPreface ix List of Abbreviations xv CHAPTER ONE: INTRODUCTION 1 CHAPTER TWO: COLONIAL LEGACIES 21 CHAPTER THREE: INVASION AND GENOCIDE 40 CHAPTER FOUR: OCCUPATION AND RESISTANCE 66 CHAPTER FIVE: MOBILIZING THE MILITIAS 92 CHAPTER SIX: BEARING WITNESS--TEMPTING FATE 115 CHAPTER SEVEN: THE VOTE 139 CHAPTER EIGHT: A CAMPAIGN OF VIOLENCE 161 CHAPTER NINE: INTERVENTION 185 CHAPTER TEN: JUSTICE AND RECONCILIATION 205 CHAPTER ELEVEN: CONCLUSIONS 229 Notes 249 A Note on Sources 295 Bibliography 297 Index 313
£28.50
Princeton University Press Why Australia Prospered
Book SynopsisOffers a comprehensive account of how Australia attained the world's highest living standards within a few decades of European settlement, and how the nation has sustained an enviable level of income. This title argues that Australia's remarkable prosperity across nearly two centuries was reached and maintained by several shifting factors.Trade Review"[T]he first major economic history of Australia for 40 years."--Ross Gittins, Sydney Morning Herald "[R]emarkable... Why Australia Prospered distills decades of research and teaching to present an account of Australia and its development that is solid, surprising and pertinent to the contemporary debate about the country's future... In his assembly of evidence and his judicious review of the debates of Australian development, McLean has made a profoundly important contribution to our understanding of where Australia has come from as a nation, where they country is now--and where it is going."--Australian Financial Review "In Why Australia Prospered, Ian McLean explores the fascinating mix of factors explaining this persistence of prosperity... [A] carefully researched book."--Times Higher Education Supplement "McLean provides a comprehensive account of the factors contributing to Australia's remarkable economic growth."--Choice "In this impressive book McLean demonstrates the contribution economic history can make to scholarship on the past and the politics of the present... [T]he work of a manifestly fine scholar with many important points to make and ideas that need to be heard far beyond university economics departments, or what's left of them."--Stephen Matchett, Australian "[A]n outstanding piece of scholarship... Ian McLean has written a timely and masterful account of the long sweep of Australia's economic history, which will be relished by anyone interested in the unique circumstances of this country's remarkable economic development. Written for the non-specialist, the narrative is accessible, brisk and appropriately, if sparsely, illustrated with charts and tables."--Ian Harper, EH.Net "[T]his is a superb book. Anyone with even a superficial interest in Australian economic history should read it, and be educated by it."--Tim Hatton, Australian Economic History Review "McLean has an admirable ability to sum up complex issues using simple, often elegant sentences. He is a highly skilled tradesperson who uses economists' tools, but this does not compromise the readability of his text. Why Australia Prospered deserves a wide audience. It would be a suitable text for undergraduate use, while giving postgraduate students and established scholars plenty to think about."--Lionel Frost, Australian Historical Studies "Why Australia Prospered is both expansively ambitious and narrowly precise... McLean is a meticulous analyst and a calm judge, comfortable with unorthodoxy and big turning points if that is where the evidence leads."--Jock Given, Inside Story "McLean's telling of Australian economic history is not only fascinating, it is also fresh... [It is] a book that better integrates Australia's story into mainstream economic history than any before it."--Andrew Leigh, Journal of Economic Literature "It is engagingly written... Most important of all is McLean's impressive use of the comparative approach... While the book's focus is on natural resources and institutions, the author provides stimulating interpretations of many phases of economic history."--Simon Ville, American Historical Review "Why Australia Prospered is a rewarding read. The book is targeted at a broad audience, and to this end, MacLean interweaves historical narrative with analysis. Its chronological presentation allows some refreshing perspectives on events, and theoretical and policy debates, all of which are informed by the deep scholarship that the author demonstrates... [T]his is an excellent and enjoyable book that reminds us of the importance of historical context."--Shauna Phillips, Australian Journal of Agricultural and Resource "With this new book, McLean provides a missing exposition that could help re-energise such studies. It is a coherent, well-written, well-reasoned and accessible survey of Australian economic evolution. It benefits from the integration that comes from being penned by a single mind."--Glenn Withers, Economic Record "Australian economic history is undergoing something of a minor revival ... and this book is a welcome addition to the literature on the history of Australia in the global economy, stressing as it does both continuity and change."--David Meredith, English Historical ReviewTable of ContentsList of Figures ix List of Tables xi Preface and Acknowledgments xiii Map xvi Chapter 1 Introduction: Weaving Analysis and Narrative 1 Chapter 2 What Is to Be Explained, and How 11 * Comparative Levels of GDP Per Capita 11 * Booms, Busts, and Stagnation in Domestic Prosperity 15 * Other Indicators of Economic Prosperity 19 * From Evidence to Analysis 25 * Extensive Growth and Factor Accumulation 27 * Growth Theory and Australian Economic Historiography 29 * Recent Themes in Growth Economics 32 Chapter 3 Origins: An Economy Built from Scratch? 37 * The Pre-1788 Economy of the Aborigines 38 * The Aboriginal Contribution to the Post-1788 Economy 42 * The Convict Economy and Its Peculiar Labor Market 44 * Further Features of the Economy Relevant to Later Prosperity 50 * British Subsidies and Australian Living Standards 53 Chapter 4 Squatting, Colonial Autocracy, and Imperial Policies 57 * Why the Wool Industry Was So Efficient 58 * Evolution of Political Institutions: From Autocracy to Responsible Government 63 * The Labor Market: Ending Transportation, Preventing Coolie Immigration 67 * Thwarting the Squatters: Land Policies to 1847 69 * Other Determinants of Early Colonial Prosperity 73 * The Argentine Road Not Taken 76 Chapter 5 Becoming Very Rich 80 * The Economic Effects of Gold: Avoiding the Resource Curse 84 * Sustaining Economic Prosperity Following the Rushes 90 * Consolidating Democracy and Resolving the Squatter- Selector Conflict 96 * Openness and Growth 100 * Rural Productivity and Its Sources 108 Chapter 6 Depression, Drought, and Federation 113 * Explaining Relative Incomes 113 * Eating the Seed Corn? 116 * Boom, Bubble, and Bust: A Classic Debt Crisis 119 * Why Was Recovery So Slow? Comparison with Other Settler Economies 125 * Tropics, Crops, and Melanesians: Another Road Not Taken 132 * Economic Effects of Federation 135 * Accounting for the Loss of the "Top Spot" in Income Per Capita 139 Chapter 7 A Succession of Negative Shocks 144 * Why Was the Economic Impact of World War I So Severe? 147 * Why No Return to Normalcy? 148 * Pursuing Rural Development--A Field of Dreams? 154 * Growth in Other Settler Economies 157 * Debt Crisis, Then Depression-- Policy Responses and Constraints 160 * Imperial Economic Links-- Declining Net Benefi ts 165 * Could the Post-1960 Mineral Boom Have Occurred Earlier? 170 * The Debate over Stagnant Living Standards 173 Chapter 8 The Pacific War and the Second Golden Age 176 * Why the Pacific War Fostered Domestic Growth 177 * The Golden Age Was Not Uniquely Australian 183 * Export Growth, Factor Inflows, and the Korean War Wool Boom 186 * Macroeconomic Theory and Policies--What Role? 191 * Location Advantage: Asian Industrialization and Changing Trade Partners 193 * High Tide for Australian Industrialization 196 * Underinvestment in Human Capital? 199 * The Debate over Postwar Growth Performance 205 Chapter 9 Shocks, Policy Shift s, and Another Long Boom 210 * Why Did the Postwar Economic Boom End? 212 * The Reemergence of a Booming Mining Sector 215 * Macroeconomic Management in the 1970s 217 * Economic Policy Shift s in the 1980s 219 * Reevaluations 224 * The Quarry Economy: The Return of Resources-Based Prosperity 228 * The Contribution of Economic Reforms to Productivity 235 * Sustaining Prosperity through Boom and Bubble--A Historical Perspective 241 Chapter 10 The Shifting Bases of Prosperity 246 Appendix Note on Statistics and Sources 257 References 259 Index 277
£37.80
Princeton University Press Why Australia Prospered
Book SynopsisTrade Review"[T]he first major economic history of Australia for 40 years."--Ross Gittins, Sydney Morning Herald "[R]emarkable... Why Australia Prospered distills decades of research and teaching to present an account of Australia and its development that is solid, surprising and pertinent to the contemporary debate about the country's future... In his assembly of evidence and his judicious review of the debates of Australian development, McLean has made a profoundly important contribution to our understanding of where Australia has come from as a nation, where they country is now--and where it is going."--Australian Financial Review "In Why Australia Prospered, Ian McLean explores the fascinating mix of factors explaining this persistence of prosperity... [A] carefully researched book."--Times Higher Education Supplement "McLean provides a comprehensive account of the factors contributing to Australia's remarkable economic growth."--Choice "In this impressive book McLean demonstrates the contribution economic history can make to scholarship on the past and the politics of the present... [T]he work of a manifestly fine scholar with many important points to make and ideas that need to be heard far beyond university economics departments, or what's left of them."--Stephen Matchett, Australian "[A]n outstanding piece of scholarship... Ian McLean has written a timely and masterful account of the long sweep of Australia's economic history, which will be relished by anyone interested in the unique circumstances of this country's remarkable economic development. Written for the non-specialist, the narrative is accessible, brisk and appropriately, if sparsely, illustrated with charts and tables."--Ian Harper, EH.Net "[T]his is a superb book. Anyone with even a superficial interest in Australian economic history should read it, and be educated by it."--Tim Hatton, Australian Economic History Review "McLean has an admirable ability to sum up complex issues using simple, often elegant sentences. He is a highly skilled tradesperson who uses economists' tools, but this does not compromise the readability of his text. Why Australia Prospered deserves a wide audience. It would be a suitable text for undergraduate use, while giving postgraduate students and established scholars plenty to think about."--Lionel Frost, Australian Historical Studies "Why Australia Prospered is both expansively ambitious and narrowly precise... McLean is a meticulous analyst and a calm judge, comfortable with unorthodoxy and big turning points if that is where the evidence leads."--Jock Given, Inside Story "McLean's telling of Australian economic history is not only fascinating, it is also fresh... [It is] a book that better integrates Australia's story into mainstream economic history than any before it."--Andrew Leigh, Journal of Economic Literature "It is engagingly written... Most important of all is McLean's impressive use of the comparative approach... While the book's focus is on natural resources and institutions, the author provides stimulating interpretations of many phases of economic history."--Simon Ville, American Historical Review "Why Australia Prospered is a rewarding read. The book is targeted at a broad audience, and to this end, MacLean interweaves historical narrative with analysis. Its chronological presentation allows some refreshing perspectives on events, and theoretical and policy debates, all of which are informed by the deep scholarship that the author demonstrates... [T]his is an excellent and enjoyable book that reminds us of the importance of historical context."--Shauna Phillips, Australian Journal of Agricultural and Resource "With this new book, McLean provides a missing exposition that could help re-energise such studies. It is a coherent, well-written, well-reasoned and accessible survey of Australian economic evolution. It benefits from the integration that comes from being penned by a single mind."--Glenn Withers, Economic Record "Australian economic history is undergoing something of a minor revival ... and this book is a welcome addition to the literature on the history of Australia in the global economy, stressing as it does both continuity and change."--David Meredith, English Historical ReviewTable of ContentsList of Figures ix List of Tables xi Preface and Acknowledgments xiii Map xvi Chapter 1 Introduction: Weaving Analysis and Narrative 1 Chapter 2 What Is to Be Explained, and How 11 * Comparative Levels of GDP Per Capita 11 * Booms, Busts, and Stagnation in Domestic Prosperity 15 * Other Indicators of Economic Prosperity 19 * From Evidence to Analysis 25 * Extensive Growth and Factor Accumulation 27 * Growth Theory and Australian Economic Historiography 29 * Recent Themes in Growth Economics 32 Chapter 3 Origins: An Economy Built from Scratch? 37 * The Pre-1788 Economy of the Aborigines 38 * The Aboriginal Contribution to the Post-1788 Economy 42 * The Convict Economy and Its Peculiar Labor Market 44 * Further Features of the Economy Relevant to Later Prosperity 50 * British Subsidies and Australian Living Standards 53 Chapter 4 Squatting, Colonial Autocracy, and Imperial Policies 57 * Why the Wool Industry Was So Efficient 58 * Evolution of Political Institutions: From Autocracy to Responsible Government 63 * The Labor Market: Ending Transportation, Preventing Coolie Immigration 67 * Thwarting the Squatters: Land Policies to 1847 69 * Other Determinants of Early Colonial Prosperity 73 * The Argentine Road Not Taken 76 Chapter 5 Becoming Very Rich 80 * The Economic Effects of Gold: Avoiding the Resource Curse 84 * Sustaining Economic Prosperity Following the Rushes 90 * Consolidating Democracy and Resolving the Squatter- Selector Conflict 96 * Openness and Growth 100 * Rural Productivity and Its Sources 108 Chapter 6 Depression, Drought, and Federation 113 * Explaining Relative Incomes 113 * Eating the Seed Corn? 116 * Boom, Bubble, and Bust: A Classic Debt Crisis 119 * Why Was Recovery So Slow? Comparison with Other Settler Economies 125 * Tropics, Crops, and Melanesians: Another Road Not Taken 132 * Economic Effects of Federation 135 * Accounting for the Loss of the "Top Spot" in Income Per Capita 139 Chapter 7 A Succession of Negative Shocks 144 * Why Was the Economic Impact of World War I So Severe? 147 * Why No Return to Normalcy? 148 * Pursuing Rural Development--A Field of Dreams? 154 * Growth in Other Settler Economies 157 * Debt Crisis, Then Depression-- Policy Responses and Constraints 160 * Imperial Economic Links-- Declining Net Benefi ts 165 * Could the Post-1960 Mineral Boom Have Occurred Earlier? 170 * The Debate over Stagnant Living Standards 173 Chapter 8 The Pacific War and the Second Golden Age 176 * Why the Pacific War Fostered Domestic Growth 177 * The Golden Age Was Not Uniquely Australian 183 * Export Growth, Factor Inflows, and the Korean War Wool Boom 186 * Macroeconomic Theory and Policies--What Role? 191 * Location Advantage: Asian Industrialization and Changing Trade Partners 193 * High Tide for Australian Industrialization 196 * Underinvestment in Human Capital? 199 * The Debate over Postwar Growth Performance 205 Chapter 9 Shocks, Policy Shift s, and Another Long Boom 210 * Why Did the Postwar Economic Boom End? 212 * The Reemergence of a Booming Mining Sector 215 * Macroeconomic Management in the 1970s 217 * Economic Policy Shift s in the 1980s 219 * Reevaluations 224 * The Quarry Economy: The Return of Resources-Based Prosperity 228 * The Contribution of Economic Reforms to Productivity 235 * Sustaining Prosperity through Boom and Bubble--A Historical Perspective 241 Chapter 10 The Shifting Bases of Prosperity 246 Appendix Note on Statistics and Sources 257 References 259 Index 277
£23.75
University of British Columbia Press The Grand Experiment
Book SynopsisReveals how local life and culture in selected colonies interacted with the rule of law that accompanied the British colonial project. This book presents an account of the 'incomplete implementation of the British constitution' in the colonies. It explores themes of legal translation, local understandings, and judicial biography.Trade Review"This collection of essays by Canada's and Australasia's most accomplished legal historians is a "must" for academic libraries and those who share these scholars' interest in the legal culture of the British colonial world. - Peter Karsten, author of Between Law and Custom: "High" and "Low" Legal Cultures in the Lands of the British Diaspora, 1600-1900.Table of ContentsForewordIntroduction: Does Law Matter? The New Colonial Legal History / Benjamin L. Berger, Hamar Foster, and A.R. BuckPart 1: Authority at the Boundaries of Empire1 Libel and the Colonial Administration of Justice in Upper Canada and New South Wales, c. 1825-30 / Barry Wright2 The Limits of Despotic Government at Sea / Bruce Kercher3 One Chief, Two Chiefs, Red Chiefs, Blue Chiefs: Newcomer Perspectives on Indigenous Leadership in Rupert’s Land and the North-West Territories / Janna Promislow4 Rhetoric, Reason, and the Rule of Law in Early Colonial New South Wales / Ian Holloway, Simon Bronitt, and John Williams5 Sometimes Persuasive Authority: Dominion Case Law and English Judges, 1895-1970 / Jeremy FinnPart 2: Courts and Judges in the Colonies6 Courts, Communities, and Communication: The Nova Scotia Supreme Court on Circuit, 1816-50 / Jim Phillips and Philip Girard7 Fame and Infamy: Two Men of the Law in Colonial New Zealand / David V. Williams8 Moving in an “Eccentric Orbit”: The Independence of Judge Algernon Sidney Montagu in Van Diemen’s Land, 1833-47 / Stefan Petrow 9 “Not in Keeping with the Traditions of the Cariboo Courts”: Courts and Community Identity in Northeastern British Columbia, 1920-50 / Jonathan Swainger Part 3: Property, Politics, and Petitions in Colonial Law 10 Starkie’s Adventures in North America: The Emergence of Libel Law / Lyndsay M. Campbell11 The Law of Dower in New South Wales and the United States: A Study in Comparative Legal History / A.R. Buck and Nancy E. Wright12 Contesting Prohibition and the Constitution in 1850s New Brunswick / Greg Marquis13 From Humble Prayers to Legal Demands: The Cowichan Petition of 1909 and the British Columbia Indian Land Question / Hamar Foster and Benjamin L. Berger Afterword: Looking from the Past into the Future / John P.S. McLarenNotes Selected Bibliography Index
£73.95
University of British Columbia Press The Grand Experiment
Book SynopsisFeatures essays that reflect the different directions in which legal history in the settler colonies of the British Empire has developed. This title shows how local life and culture in selected settlements influenced, and was influenced by, the ideology of the rule of law that accompanied the British colonial project.Table of ContentsForewordIntroduction: Does Law Matter? The New Colonial Legal History / Benjamin L. Berger, Hamar Foster, and A.R. BuckPart 1: Authority at the Boundaries of Empire1 Libel and the Colonial Administration of Justice in Upper Canada and New South Wales, c. 1825-30 / Barry Wright2 The Limits of Despotic Government at Sea / Bruce Kercher3 One Chief, Two Chiefs, Red Chiefs, Blue Chiefs: Newcomer Perspectives on Indigenous Leadership in Rupert’s Land and the North-West Territories / Janna Promislow4 Rhetoric, Reason, and the Rule of Law in Early Colonial New South Wales / Ian Holloway, Simon Bronitt, and John Williams5 Sometimes Persuasive Authority: Dominion Case Law and English Judges, 1895-1970 / Jeremy FinnPart 2: Courts and Judges in the Colonies6 Courts, Communities, and Communication: The Nova Scotia Supreme Court on Circuit, 1816-50 / Jim Phillips and Philip Girard7 Fame and Infamy: Two Men of the Law in Colonial New Zealand / David V. Williams8 Moving in an “Eccentric Orbit”: The Independence of Judge Algernon Sidney Montagu in Van Diemen’s Land, 1833-47 / Stefan Petrow 9 “Not in Keeping with the Traditions of the Cariboo Courts”: Courts and Community Identity in Northeastern British Columbia, 1920-50 / Jonathan Swainger Part 3: Property, Politics, and Petitions in Colonial Law 10 Starkie’s Adventures in North America: The Emergence of Libel Law / Lyndsay M. Campbell11 The Law of Dower in New South Wales and the United States: A Study in Comparative Legal History / A.R. Buck and Nancy E. Wright12 Contesting Prohibition and the Constitution in 1850s New Brunswick / Greg Marquis13 From Humble Prayers to Legal Demands: The Cowichan Petition of 1909 and the British Columbia Indian Land Question / Hamar Foster and Benjamin L. Berger Afterword: Looking from the Past into the Future / John P.S. McLarenNotes Selected Bibliography Index
£26.99
University of British Columbia Press Urbanizing Frontiers
Book SynopsisThis book explores the lives of Indigenous peoples and settlers and compares the emergence of racial boundaries in two Pacific Rim cities Victoria, British Columbia, and Melbourne, Australia.Trade ReviewUrbanizing Frontiers is a fine example of comparative colonial history. This sort of history requires research in multiple locations often separated by vast distances, engagement with the historiographical contours of at least two countries, and a conceptual language to bridge them. ...[it shows] rich and compelling evidence or the insightful analysis which is developed with reference to postcolonial, feminist and spatial theory.... Urbanizing Frontiers is a sophisticated monograph, carefully crafted and impressive in scope. It deserves a wide readership in indigenous studies, colonial history, urban history and historical geography, while also making an important and timely contribution to both Australian and Canadian history. -- Fances Steel, University of Wollongong * Aboriginal History, Vol 35 *Edmonds argues for a redefinition of perhaps the most contested idea in settler colonial historiography: that of the frontier….and offers a devastating indictment of the urban biopolitics of settler colonialism and their effect on Indigenous society. -- Edward Cavanagh, University of the Witwatersrand * Settler Colonial Studies, Issue 1 *Taking as her case studies Victoria on Canada’s west coast and Melbourne, Australia, Edmonds makes a compelling case for the ways in which urban and indigenous histories are deeply entwined..[with] insightful placements of the potlatch and the corroboree alongside the grid and the picturesque ... the urban stories she tells are rich, complex, and densely critical ... Urbanizing Frontiers is an outstanding contribution to the nascent literature on urban colonialism and indigenous peoples. -- Coll Thrush, University of British Columbia * Pacific Historical Review *This is an important book, a must read not only for scholars in Native studies, but for urban historians as well. Indeed, I found myself excitingly quoting from it and footnoting it while preparing a manuscript before I could sit down and systematically read it for the purposes of this review ... One of the strengths of this book, indeed, is Edmonds’ nuanced analysis of gender. We not only see indigenous women in a wide variety of roles in both places from oyster traders to victims of sexual abuse, we also see how critical gender was in the discursive construction of place -- Jay Gitlin, Yale University * Australian Historical Studies *Urbanizing Frontiers sheds much-needed light on the spatial mobility of the developing settler colonial city where ‘mutual, albeit uneven, interactions, of colonization and Indigenization were, for a short time part of the tenor of the early settler-colonial landscape’. Edmonds is truly interdisciplinary in her research and conceptualisation of these two sites and she makes an important contribution to the understanding of Australian and Canadian history, as well as the other discourses of colonialism, race and urban geography. -- Tiffany Shellam * History Australia *An excellent work of comparative colonial history...the casual reader of British Columbian or Australian history as well as the academic of urban studies, policy, urban geography, colonial, gender and race history should consider reading this book. -- Omeasoo Butt, University of Saskatchewan * Canadian Journal of History / Annales canadiennes d'histoire, Vol. XLVlI, Autumn/automne 2012 *Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1 Extremities of Empire: Two Settler-Colonial Cities in Comparative Perspective2 Settler-Colonial Cities: A Survey of Bodies and Spaces in Transition3 "This Grand Object": Building Towns in Indigenous Space [Melbourne, Port Phillip]4 First Nations Space, Protocolonial Space [Victoria, Vancouver Island, 1843-58]5 The Imagined City and Its Dislocations: Segregation, Gender, and Town Camps [Melbourne, Port Phillip, 1839-50]6 Narratives of Race in the Streetscape: Fears of Miscegenation and Making White Subjects [Melbourne, Port Phillip, 1850s-60s]7 From Bedlam to Incorporation: First Nations Peoples, Public Space, and the Emerging City [Victoria, Vancouver Island, 1858-60s]8 Nervous Hybridity: Bodies, Spaces, and the Displacements of Empire [Victoria, British Columbia, 1858-71]ConclusionNotesBibliographyIndex
£26.99
University of British Columbia Press Strong Beautiful and Modern
Book SynopsisStrong, Beautiful and Modern tells the story of the national fitness campaigns spanning the British world beginning in the 1930s.Table of ContentsIntroduction 1 Movement is Life: National Fitness in England and Scotland 2 Leisure and Democracy: Physical Welfare as the People’sEntitlement in New Zealand 3 Education or Health? National Fitness in New South Wales andAcross Australia 4 Fitness for War and a Changed World: National Fitness inCanada 5 Healthy Bodies, States and Modernity: A Twentieth-CenturyDilemma Endnotes Bibliography Index
£999.99
MN - University of British Columbia Press Strong Beautiful and Modern National Fitness in
Book SynopsisStrong, Beautiful and Modern tells the story of the national fitness campaigns spanning the “British world” beginning in the 1930s.Table of ContentsIntroduction 1 Movement is Life: National Fitness in England and Scotland 2 Leisure and Democracy: Physical Welfare as the People’sEntitlement in New Zealand 3 Education or Health? National Fitness in New South Wales andAcross Australia 4 Fitness for War and a Changed World: National Fitness inCanada 5 Healthy Bodies, States and Modernity: A Twentieth-CenturyDilemma Endnotes Bibliography Index
£26.99
Cornell University Press Federations
Book SynopsisWhy would states ever give up their independence to join federations? While federation can provide more wealth or security than self-sufficiency, states can in principle get those benefits more easily by cooperating through international organizations...Trade Review"Federations is a joy to read and provides an extremely useful framework for understanding why countries choose this form of alliance. Chad Rector's clear explanation builds on the broad literature on cooperation and the narrower literature on institutional choice and federalism and adds the exquisite dimension of elucidating not simply why countries federate but why they choose this option over self-sufficiency or joining an international organization."—Carol S. Weissert, LeRoy Collins Eminent Scholar and Professor of Political Science, Florida State University, and editor of Publius: The Journal of Federalism"This book represents an important new and distinctive voice in the burgeoning literature on federalism's origins. Deploying a powerfully parsimonious theory to explain why states federate rather than form international alliances or organizations, Chad Rector's careful case analysis places federalism firmly on the agenda of International Relations scholarship. Federations is a real contribution to the study of the important nexus of domestic and international politics."—Daniel Ziblatt, Harvard University, author of Structuring the State
£24.80
University of Nebraska Press Illicit Love
Book SynopsisTrade 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
£31.50
University of Nebraska Press Science Sexuality and Race in the United States
Book SynopsisExamines the entwined formation of racial theory and sexual constructs within settler colonialism in the US and Australia. Gregory D. Smithers historicizes the dissemination and application of scientific and social-scientific ideas within the process of nation building and shows how intellectual constructs of race and sexuality were mobilized to subdue Aboriginal peoples.Trade Review“A shining example of how to do comparative and transnational history.”—American Historical Review “[Gregory D. Smithers] combines a very ambitious synthesis of existing scholarship with original research into primary sources. This book could have a profound impact upon scholarly thinking in relevant fields.”—Ann McGrath, author of Illicit Love: Interracial Sex and Marriage in the United States and Australia “A keen critique of the impossible logic of racism in two major settler societies anxious to strengthen their sense of nationhood. . . . Readers will be fully convinced of the key importance of whiteness in both these societies, and of the science that bolstered it.”—Philippa Levine, author of The British Empire: Sunrise to Sunset Table of ContentsList of IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsA Note about TerminologyIntroductionPart I1. On the Importance of Good Breeding2. Debating Race and the Meaning of Whiteness3. Eliminating the "Dubious Hyphen between Savagery and Civilization”4. Racial Discourse in the United States and AustraliaPart II5. Missionaries, Settlers, Cherokees, and African Americans, 1780s–1850s6. Missionaries, Settlers, and Australian Aborigines, 1780s–1850s7. The Evolution of an American Race, 1860s–1890s8. The Evolution of White Australia, 1860–1890Part III9. The “Science” of Human Breeding10. “Breeding out the Colour”EpilogueNotesBibliographyIndex
£25.19
University of Pennsylvania Press The Kingdom and the Republic
Book SynopsisTrade Review"The Kingdom and the Republic fundamentally changes how we think about Hawaiian, U.S., and British history in this period-the framing of the book actually downplays that the British are just as often at the center of the action. This work has the ability to influence how we think about historical moments of encounter more broadly, and it is an important corrective to the tendency to read history backward to find the roots of domination, exaggerating the power of Euro-American actors and downplaying the authority of indigenous Governance." * American Historical Review *"[This book] throw[s] a refreshing light on the complex and controversial history of Hawaiʻi...[A] stimulating read and certainly worth adding to anyone’s library on Hawaiʻi." * Journal of New Zealand and Pacific Studies *"Drawing on rich archives of printed materials in the Hawaiian language, Noelani Arista's The Kingdom and the Republic offers an incisive historical account of the misunderstandings and misreadings that shaped relations between native Hawaiians and European and American merchants and missionaries. Arista sets down an original and moving story about power, history and memory in the Pacific." * Ann Fabian, Rutgers University, New Brunswick *"The Kingdom and the Republic challenges some of our most basic assumptions about native Hawaiʻi, the encounters between natives and foreigners, and the processes of colonization, upending our expectations of who, in Hawaiʻi, had law and governance, and who was encountering whom." * Rebecca McLennan, University of California, Berkeley *"Compelling in its analysis and elegant in its exposition, The Kingdom and the Republic will be a force with which the coming generation of scholars of the history of Hawai'i must contend and from which they will benefit. Noelani Arista transforms the way we understand Hawaiʻi in the crucial decades between 1820 and 1840. She upends a simplistic colonial historiography that makes American missionaries the dominant forces in the period. Arista reveals instead a more complex and surprising story that speaks powerfully to questions of law, culture, language, and power in history." * David Chang, University of Minnesota *Table of ContentsIntroduction. He Ao ʻŌlelo: A World of Words Chapter 1. The Political Economy of Mana: Obligation, Debt, and Trade Chapter 2. Creating an Island Imaginary: Hawaiʻi's American Origins Chapter 3. The Isles Shall Wait for His Law: Planting the American Congregational Mission Chapter 4. Hawaiian Women, Kapu, and the Emergence of Kānāwai Chapter 5. Libel, Law, and Justice Before the ʻAha ʻōlelo Afterword Appendix. Textual Sources and Research Methods Glossary Notes Index Acknowledgments
£35.10
Rutgers University Press Aloha Compadre Latinxs in Hawaii
Book SynopsisThe first book to examine the collective history and contemporary experiences of the Latinx population of Hawai’i. This study reveals that contrary to popular discourse, Latinx migration to Hawai’i is not a recent event, and explores the expanding boundaries of Latinx migration beyond the western hemisphere and into Oceania.Trade Review"Guevarra situates Hawaiʻi as a centerpiece of the interaction between Asia and Latin America on U.S. soil, from complicating notions of settler colonialism to chronicling the spread of anti-immigrant sentiment in the 'aloha' state to placing cross-racial unions in the broader formation of a 'local' identity. This is a masterpiece in multiracial analysis and writing!" -- George J. Sánchez * author of Becoming Mexican American: Ethnicity, Culture, and Identity in Chicano Los Angeles, 1900-1 *"You simply will not know the full history and context of Hawai'i without reading Aloha Compadre. Rudy Guevarra has gifted us a must-read book on the lives of Hawai'i’s overlooked Latinx communities, who make up over 10% of the population. Through poignant prose and sharp analysis, Guevarra illuminates the movement of Latinx communities across Oceania as they create a Pacific Latinidad." -- Nitasha Tamar Sharma * author of Hawai'i Is My Haven: Race and Indigeneity in the Black Pacific *“Aloha Compadre sets a new standard for the history of the Latinx diaspora in Hawai’i.” -- Luis Alvarez * author of The Power of the Zoot: Youth Culture and Resistance during World War II *Table of ContentsPreface Note on Terminology and Accessibility Introduction: The Deportation of Andres Magaña Ortiz 1 Vaqueros and Paniolos 2 Boricua Hawaiiana 3 Working Maui Pine 4 “Wetbacks” in Racial Paradise? 5 Mixed Race Identity, Localized Latinxs, and a Pacific Latinidad Epilogue Acknowledgments Notes Selected Bibliography Index
£26.99
Rutgers University Press Aloha Compadre Latinxs in Hawaii
Book SynopsisThe first book to examine the collective history and contemporary experiences of the Latinx population of Hawai’i. This study reveals that contrary to popular discourse, Latinx migration to Hawai’i is not a recent event, and explores the expanding boundaries of Latinx migration beyond the western hemisphere and into Oceania.Trade Review"Guevarra situates Hawaiʻi as a centerpiece of the interaction between Asia and Latin America on U.S. soil, from complicating notions of settler colonialism to chronicling the spread of anti-immigrant sentiment in the 'aloha' state to placing cross-racial unions in the broader formation of a 'local' identity. This is a masterpiece in multiracial analysis and writing!" -- George J. Sánchez * author of Becoming Mexican American: Ethnicity, Culture, and Identity in Chicano Los Angeles, 1900-1 *"You simply will not know the full history and context of Hawai'i without reading Aloha Compadre. Rudy Guevarra has gifted us a must-read book on the lives of Hawai'i’s overlooked Latinx communities, who make up over 10% of the population. Through poignant prose and sharp analysis, Guevarra illuminates the movement of Latinx communities across Oceania as they create a Pacific Latinidad." -- Nitasha Tamar Sharma * author of Hawai'i Is My Haven: Race and Indigeneity in the Black Pacific *“Aloha Compadre sets a new standard for the history of the Latinx diaspora in Hawai’i.” -- Luis Alvarez * author of The Power of the Zoot: Youth Culture and Resistance during World War II *Table of ContentsPreface Note on Terminology and Accessibility Introduction: The Deportation of Andres Magaña Ortiz 1 Vaqueros and Paniolos 2 Boricua Hawaiiana 3 Working Maui Pine 4 “Wetbacks” in Racial Paradise? 5 Mixed Race Identity, Localized Latinxs, and a Pacific Latinidad Epilogue Acknowledgments Notes Selected Bibliography Index
£105.40
Duke University Press Aloha Betrayed
Book SynopsisAn historical account of native Hawaiian encounters with and resistance to American colonialism, based on little-read Hawaiian-language sources.Trade Review“Beautiful and irresistible are the peoples’ voices, in their own language and in essays, stories, poetry, and song. Their hidden transcripts and their resistance to oppression reveal a love of the land and a determined and sustained rejection of the colonizers’ imposed silences. Aloha Betrayed offers a devastating critique of colonial historiography and, crucially, a firm foundation for nation-building.”—Gary Y. Okihiro, author of Common Ground: Reimagining American History“Noenoe K. Silva has located an enormous Hawaiian-language archive of Native resistance to American colonialism in the 1897 petitions against forced annexation to the United States. Now, thanks to Silva’s pathbreaking book, the Native side of the story will finally be told. And what a story it is! Those accustomed to the ‘happy Native’ tourist image of Hawai'i will be shocked to learn that Hawaiians never wanted to be Americans; indeed, they revolted against the American military takeover. Today, Silva’s analysis is key to the ongoing indigenous movement for Hawaiian sovereignty.”—Haunani-Kay Trask, author of From a Native Daughter: Colonialism and Sovereignty in Hawai'i"Aloha Betrayed represents a maturation of Native Hawaiian scholarship in the past two decades based on diligent investigation of critical primary sources. In that sense, it is a milestone of the first phase of contemporary Native Hawaiian scholarship and also a native 'takeover' of the historiography of modern Hawai'i." -- Taro Iwata * Journal of American Ethnic History *"A fresh new approach to the critique of colonial historiography." -- Lyn Carter * Contemporary Pacific *"Brilliant. . . . This book is a superb contribution to the ongoing process of decolonization, recovery, and overcoming the suppression of Kanaka Maoli knowledge. Silva's clearly written account based on her original research is a gift to all Kanaka Maoli, especially those currently engaged in the restoration of Hawaiian sovereignty. This book-the fruition of Silva's meticulous and beautiful intellectual labor-is sure to win awards for its value and contribution to knowledge in the fields of political science, history, American studies, and indigenous studies, just to name a few." -- J. Kehaulani Kauanui * Hawaiian Journal of History *"[P]rovocative. . . . [A] bold and unapologetic revisionist history." -- Eric T. L. Love * American Historical Review *"Readers interested in the colonial encounter, Hawaiian history, the politics of language and literature, cultural studies, indigenous rights and post-colonial theory will find Aloha Betrayed a provocative book. The language is accessible, the content well-researched and coherently written, and students will find the conclusions at the end of each of the five chapters particularly useful." -- Robert Nicole * Journal of the Polynesian Society *"This slender volume packs quite a punch. . . . [A]n important study." -- Mansel G. Blackford * Journal of American History *"With its substantial and thoughtful reading of the Hawaiian-language archive, Aloha Betrayed makes a major contribution to this reexamination of history." -- Sally Engle Merry * Contemporary Pacific *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix 1. Early Struggles with the Foreigners 15 2. Ka Hoku o ka Pakipika: Emergence of the Native Voice in Print 45 3. The Merrie Monarch: Genealogy, Cosmology, Mele, and Performance Art as Resistance 87 4. The Anitannexation Struggle 123 5. The Queen of Hawai’i Raises Her Solemn Note of Protest 164 Appendix A. A Text of the Objective Nupepa Kuokoa, as Published Therein, October 1861 205 Appendix B. Songs Composed by Queen Lili’uokalani during Her Imprisonment 207 Notes 209 Glossary 237 Bibliography 241 Index 253
£19.79
Duke University Press Eye Contact
Book SynopsisThe photographs of Aborgines taken at Coranderrk Station were circulated across the western world and were mounted in exhibition displays and classified among other ethnographic "data" within museum collections. This book reveals how western society came to understand Aboriginal people through these images.Trade Review“Jane Lydon’s meticulous investigation of the role of photography in the cross-cultural engagement that took place at Coranderrk from the mid-nineteenth century to the early twentieth century unfolds with a narrative drive. The community at Coranderrk comes alive. We care about the residents, how they have been represented in successive periods, and how their descendants now use the photographs to reclaim the past and construct their own narratives.”—Roslyn Poignant, author of Professional Savages: Captive Lives and Western Spectacle“What makes this study especially rich and important is the way Jane Lydon takes full advantage of photographic theory without imposing it reductively or simplistically. This is particularly impressive because she shows in very nuanced ways that different photographs were produced for different reasons at different times and that these photos embody various ideas about Aboriginality and science.”—David Prochaska, coauthor of Beyond East and West: Seven Transnational Artists“Eye Contact is . . . a welcome entrant into the interdisciplinary arena of material culture study intersecting with photographic history. It clears a path through a landscape of nostalgia littered with the pictorial histories and genres of illustrated then-and-now documentation. . . . [T]his book brings out this body of photographic work to sit within a soundly researched historical context, and provides useful discussions on the ways in which the photographs meanings were constructed for specific purposes.” -- Joanna Sassoon * History of Photography *“Eye Contact is a fine contribution to visual history, colonial studies, and comparative work on visual culture and photography more broadly.” -- Corinne A. Kratz * American Ethnologist *“[A] rich verbal and visual text. . . . By tying colonial-era photography to the institutions within which it took place and historicizing the shifting contexts of composition, production, and distribution for the images themselves, Lydon’s beautifully produced monograph makes a significant contribution to understanding colonial photographic practice.” -- Daniel Fisher * Anthropology and Humanism *“I found Lydon’s book to be a resounding success: it is an enjoyable read; an important, well-timed contribution to the disciplinary fields of history, photography, and anthropology; and an especially welcome addition to scholarship that examines the power of media practices to produce and re-imagine meaning.” -- Sabra Thorner * Visual Anthropology Review *“This is a well written book, intelligently conceived and well argued. It is theoretically sophisticated while remaining accessible.” -- Peggy Brock * Journal of Colonialism & Colonial History *“With its eye-catching cover, bold title and eighty-eight illustrations, Jane Lydon’s Eye Contact is an impressive scholarly work detailing the role that visual imagery, but particularly photography, played in developments at the Aboriginal mission at Coranderrer in Victoria from its beginnings in the 1870s to its closure in the early 1900s.” -- Anne Maxwell * Australian Historical Studies *"Insightful. . . . The importance of Eye Contact goes beyond the recovery of aspects of untold Australian history, in that any consideration of the function of representation of Aboriginal people is a meditation on the nature of culture in Australia." -- John Mateer * Melbourne Age *"The Coranderrk photographs perform seemingly contradictory roles; they are both 'memorials to a vanishing race' and a vital resource for contemporary indigenous people searching for their descendants in order to keep the past alive." -- Mireille Juchau * TLS *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations ix Preface xiii Acknowledgments xxv Introduction: Colonialism, Photography, Mimesis 1 1. "This Civilising Experiment": Charles Walter, Missionaries, and Photographic Theater 33 2. Science and Visuality: "Communicating Correct Ideas" 73 3. Time Traps: Defining Aboriginality during the 1870s–1880s 122 4. Works Like a Clock 176 5. Coranderrk Reappears 214 Epilogue 248 Notes 253 Bibliography 271 Index 295
£28.80
Duke University Press The Echo of Things
Book SynopsisThe Echo of Things is a compelling ethnographic study of what photography means to the people of Roviana Lagoon in the western Solomon Islands and a provocative inquiry into our own understandings of photography.Trade Review"The Echo of Things is a very fine book based on Christopher Wright's deep understanding of photographic technologies and artifacts and the lives of those artifacts in a specific milieu. Evoking the diverse uses and valuations of images among Solomon Islanders during the 1990s and 2000s, it is classical ethnography in the best sense; it is a dedicated study in which the locals do a lot of the talking."—Nicholas Thomas, author of In Oceania: Visions, Artifacts, Histories"Christopher Wright argues persuasively that photography is thought of in Roviana (Solomon Islands) as a kind of echo, a trace that physically conflates image and sound in reproducing its object. He attends carefully to Roviana perspectives and practices yet deftly locates them in the context of the global theorization of photography and its many vernacular uses. Drawing on richly detailed ethnography, he uses analysis of one society's response to the medium to elucidate important debates across anthropology and photography more broadly."—Jane Lydon, author of Eye Contact: Photographing Indigeneous Australians"Echoes of history figured in light and shade across the colonial divide, this precise yet loving account of a non-Western visual culture teaches me once again how little I see but how much Christopher Wright can show about the startling possibilities within those limitations."—Michael Taussig, Columbia University"A highly valuable contribution to the study of vernacular photography." -- Gilles de Rapper * Anthropological Notebooks *“[S]cholars have not undertaken the book-length analysis of a single island or a specific historical period that Wright attempts. This makes The Echo of Things an important contribution to the field of the history of photography in the Pacific. It is a carefully argued and compelling read, and hopefully a benchmark study to be replicated by future researchers as well as curators and archivists in the islands.” -- Max Quanchi * CAA Reviews *“Anyone who has lived or worked in island societies like those in this book – the Western Solomon Islands – will delight in the wide variety of stories that lay bare the social life of photographs in these communities.” -- Geoffrey M. White * Oceania *“This is a careful, sensitive ethnography that contains compelling portraits of people of Roviana for whom I hope the book is an important contribution…. This is… a book that very successfully argues for photographs as a means of allowing for and understanding that a single uncontested history is impossible and, like Faletau’s battered briefcase, can contain the possibility of multiple histories.” -- Andrea Low * Pacific Affairs *“[T]his book is evidence—if evidence was needed—of the sheer diversity and vibrancy of the ethnographic mode of research and writing and its ability to adapt, change and incorporate elements from its and others’ histories, while at the same time acknowledging and incorporating—rather than defensively shielding against— the insights of cultural theory and anthropology’s post–Writing Culture experiments with writing. As it succeeds in doing just that, this is a wholly welcome contribution to an ongoing debate, and it remains a productive provocation for future work in the field.” -- Peter Kilroy * Cultural Critique *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations ix Acknowledgments xiii Prologue 1 1. Tie Vaka—The Men of the Boat 19 2. "A Devil's Engine" 59 3. Photographic Resurrection 111 4. Histories 163 Epilogue 191 Notes 195 References 205 Index 217
£95.20
Duke University Press The Echo of Things
Book SynopsisThe Echo of Things is a compelling ethnographic study of what photography means to the people of Roviana Lagoon in the western Solomon Islands and a provocative inquiry into our own understandings of photography.Trade Review"The Echo of Things is a very fine book based on Christopher Wright's deep understanding of photographic technologies and artifacts and the lives of those artifacts in a specific milieu. Evoking the diverse uses and valuations of images among Solomon Islanders during the 1990s and 2000s, it is classical ethnography in the best sense; it is a dedicated study in which the locals do a lot of the talking."—Nicholas Thomas, author of In Oceania: Visions, Artifacts, Histories"Christopher Wright argues persuasively that photography is thought of in Roviana (Solomon Islands) as a kind of echo, a trace that physically conflates image and sound in reproducing its object. He attends carefully to Roviana perspectives and practices yet deftly locates them in the context of the global theorization of photography and its many vernacular uses. Drawing on richly detailed ethnography, he uses analysis of one society's response to the medium to elucidate important debates across anthropology and photography more broadly."—Jane Lydon, author of Eye Contact: Photographing Indigeneous Australians"Echoes of history figured in light and shade across the colonial divide, this precise yet loving account of a non-Western visual culture teaches me once again how little I see but how much Christopher Wright can show about the startling possibilities within those limitations."—Michael Taussig, Columbia University"A highly valuable contribution to the study of vernacular photography." -- Gilles de Rapper * Anthropological Notebooks *“[S]cholars have not undertaken the book-length analysis of a single island or a specific historical period that Wright attempts. This makes The Echo of Things an important contribution to the field of the history of photography in the Pacific. It is a carefully argued and compelling read, and hopefully a benchmark study to be replicated by future researchers as well as curators and archivists in the islands.” -- Max Quanchi * CAA Reviews *“Anyone who has lived or worked in island societies like those in this book – the Western Solomon Islands – will delight in the wide variety of stories that lay bare the social life of photographs in these communities.” -- Geoffrey M. White * Oceania *“This is a careful, sensitive ethnography that contains compelling portraits of people of Roviana for whom I hope the book is an important contribution…. This is… a book that very successfully argues for photographs as a means of allowing for and understanding that a single uncontested history is impossible and, like Faletau’s battered briefcase, can contain the possibility of multiple histories.” -- Andrea Low * Pacific Affairs *“[T]his book is evidence—if evidence was needed—of the sheer diversity and vibrancy of the ethnographic mode of research and writing and its ability to adapt, change and incorporate elements from its and others’ histories, while at the same time acknowledging and incorporating—rather than defensively shielding against— the insights of cultural theory and anthropology’s post–Writing Culture experiments with writing. As it succeeds in doing just that, this is a wholly welcome contribution to an ongoing debate, and it remains a productive provocation for future work in the field.” -- Peter Kilroy * Cultural Critique *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations ix Acknowledgments xiii Prologue 1 1. Tie Vaka—The Men of the Boat 19 2. "A Devil's Engine" 59 3. Photographic Resurrection 111 4. Histories 163 Epilogue 191 Notes 195 References 205 Index 217
£24.29
Duke University Press Entanglements of Empire
Book SynopsisTrade Review“[O]utstanding and very readable book…. [T]his is a profound and close reading of an essential period of cultural interaction in our history.” -- Nicholas Reid * Reid's Reader Blog * "[T]his is a work of considerable depth and value.… Ballantyne’s work will in the future be essential reading for anyone wishing to understand and engage in this discussion." -- Vincent O’Malley * H-Empire, H-Net Reviews *"Ballantyne presents his complex, theoretically informed history with admirable skill and a persuasive authorial voice.... Scholars interested in the history of the British Empire and its impact on indigenous peoples will find this a fine study of imperial relations within one small and distant colony-in-waiting. He is to be congratulated on this very considerable achievement." -- Patricia Grimshaw * American Historical Review *"This elegantly written and brilliantly argued book further enhances Tony Ballantyne’s reputation as New Zealand’s leading historian, as well as a major scholar of imperial and global histories.... Entanglements of Empire is a landmark text that makes a vitally important contribution to the fields of New Zealand and British imperial history. It offers historians a new set of conceptual tools for approaching cross-cultural engagements in the past; provides fresh perspectives on the missionary project in Te Ika a Ma¯ui; and reminds us that struggles over the materiality of the body – over work, sharing food, intimacy, illness, death and so on – merit serious scholarly attention." -- Lyndon Fraser * Social History *"I recommend Entanglements of Empire to scholars interested in the history of the British Empire, Oceania, and Christian missions. Well balanced, carefully articulated, and always insightful, it is likely to become a definitive work on the complexities of Protestant mission efforts in the region and beyond." -- Matt Tomlinson * Comparative Studies in Society and History *"Entanglements moves backwards and forwards in a complex dance among actors, events and writing situated in Britain, Australia, New Zealand and other parts of the empire....[T]his is a finely produced book, a delight to read." -- Michael P. J. Reilly * Journal of Pacific History *"In this lucid and nuanced rereading of the missionary archive in early New Zealand, Tony Ballantyne makes impressively wide-ranging arguments about the centrality of the body to the thickening 'entanglements' between indigenous peoples and British evangelists between 1814 and 1840. . . . An important and useful book, Ballantyne’s methodological argument in particular deserves the engagement of those exploring the history of the body and other imperial sites of power and entanglement." -- Miranda Johnson * Journal of the History of Sexuality *"In one volume, Entanglements of Empire showcases most of the characteristics that Ballantyne’s work has been praised for. It weaves between the personal and the political and it seamlessly travels from local to global vantage points. Without any rupture in the flow of narrative, it incorporates insightful minutiae on the one hand . . . and discussions of imperial geo-strategy on the other hand." -- Alan Lester * European Review of History *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction. Bodies in Contact, Bodies in Question 1 1. Exploration, Empire, and Evangelization 26 2. Making Place, Reordering Space 65 3. Economics, Labor, and Time 98 4. Containing Transgression 138 5. Cultures of Death 174 6. The Politics of the "Enfeebled" Body 214 Conclusion. Bodies and the Entanglemetns of Empire 251 Notes 261 Glossary 313 Bibliography 317 Index 343
£80.10
Duke University Press Entanglements of Empire
Book SynopsisTrade Review“[O]utstanding and very readable book…. [T]his is a profound and close reading of an essential period of cultural interaction in our history.” -- Nicholas Reid * Reid's Reader Blog * "[T]his is a work of considerable depth and value.… Ballantyne’s work will in the future be essential reading for anyone wishing to understand and engage in this discussion." -- Vincent O’Malley * H-Empire, H-Net Reviews *"Ballantyne presents his complex, theoretically informed history with admirable skill and a persuasive authorial voice.... Scholars interested in the history of the British Empire and its impact on indigenous peoples will find this a fine study of imperial relations within one small and distant colony-in-waiting. He is to be congratulated on this very considerable achievement." -- Patricia Grimshaw * American Historical Review *"This elegantly written and brilliantly argued book further enhances Tony Ballantyne’s reputation as New Zealand’s leading historian, as well as a major scholar of imperial and global histories.... Entanglements of Empire is a landmark text that makes a vitally important contribution to the fields of New Zealand and British imperial history. It offers historians a new set of conceptual tools for approaching cross-cultural engagements in the past; provides fresh perspectives on the missionary project in Te Ika a Ma¯ui; and reminds us that struggles over the materiality of the body – over work, sharing food, intimacy, illness, death and so on – merit serious scholarly attention." -- Lyndon Fraser * Social History *"I recommend Entanglements of Empire to scholars interested in the history of the British Empire, Oceania, and Christian missions. Well balanced, carefully articulated, and always insightful, it is likely to become a definitive work on the complexities of Protestant mission efforts in the region and beyond." -- Matt Tomlinson * Comparative Studies in Society and History *"Entanglements moves backwards and forwards in a complex dance among actors, events and writing situated in Britain, Australia, New Zealand and other parts of the empire....[T]his is a finely produced book, a delight to read." -- Michael P. J. Reilly * Journal of Pacific History *"In this lucid and nuanced rereading of the missionary archive in early New Zealand, Tony Ballantyne makes impressively wide-ranging arguments about the centrality of the body to the thickening 'entanglements' between indigenous peoples and British evangelists between 1814 and 1840. . . . An important and useful book, Ballantyne’s methodological argument in particular deserves the engagement of those exploring the history of the body and other imperial sites of power and entanglement." -- Miranda Johnson * Journal of the History of Sexuality *"In one volume, Entanglements of Empire showcases most of the characteristics that Ballantyne’s work has been praised for. It weaves between the personal and the political and it seamlessly travels from local to global vantage points. Without any rupture in the flow of narrative, it incorporates insightful minutiae on the one hand . . . and discussions of imperial geo-strategy on the other hand." -- Alan Lester * European Review of History *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction. Bodies in Contact, Bodies in Question 1 1. Exploration, Empire, and Evangelization 26 2. Making Place, Reordering Space 65 3. Economics, Labor, and Time 98 4. Containing Transgression 138 5. Cultures of Death 174 6. The Politics of the "Enfeebled" Body 214 Conclusion. Bodies and the Entanglemetns of Empire 251 Notes 261 Glossary 313 Bibliography 317 Index 343
£27.90
Duke University Press Alchemy in the Rain Forest
Book SynopsisIn Alchemy in the Rain Forest Jerry K. Jacka explores how the indigenous population of Papua New Guinea's Porgeran highlands struggle to create meaningful lives in the midst of the extreme social conflict and environmental degradation brought on by commercial gold mining.Trade Review"In sum, this book is a valuable addition to the specialist literature on mining and social change in Melanesia, but also written in a clear style that will be of great use in the classroom. I recommend Jacka’s accessible, straightforward ethnography to all readers." -- Alex Golub * Anthropology Book Forum *"[Alchemy in the Rain Forest] is an important contribution to environmental anthropology and political ecology. Jacka ultimately argues that the mine’s promises of development are as illusive as the alchemists’ quest for gold. What is unique about the book is not that ultimate assessment, but its exploration of the ways in which people who bear the greatest social and environmental harms of large-scale mining understand and navigate those changes." -- Jessica M. Smith * Journal of Anthropological Research *"Jacka provides a multifaceted examination of gold mining in Papua New Guinea and its social and cultural impacts during the second half of the twentieth century. While highlighting the important conflicts and tensions, the author firmly resists the temptation to embark on a morality tale of evil multinationals dispossessing people of their land and culture. On the contrary, he offers nuanced analysis based on both field-work interviews and historical archives." -- José Ramón Bertomeu Sánchez * Ambix *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction 1 Part I. The Making of a Resource Frontier 21 1. Resource Frontiers in the Montane Tropics 25 2. Colonialism, Mining, and Missionization 49 Part II. Indigenous Philosophies of Nature, Culture, and Place 77 3. Land: Yu 81 4. People: Wandakali 105 5. Spirits: Yama 129 Part III. Social-Ecological Perturbations and Human Responses 157 6. Ecological Perturbations and Human Responses 157 7. Social Dislocations: Work, Antiwork, and Highway Life 199 Conclusion: Development, Resilience, and the End of the Land 229 Notes 241 References 249 Index 269
£76.50
Duke University Press Remote AvantGarde
Book SynopsisIn Remote Avant-Garde Jennifer Loureide Biddle interrogates the avant-garde art of Aboriginal communities in the Australian desert, showing how it is an act of survival in the face of state occupation and a means to revive at-risk vernacular languages and cultural heritages.Trade Review"[W]ith a breathtaking focus on the new, the emergent, the hybrid and the innovative (213), the book’s artworks, and the writing itself, bristle with energy.... This is a refreshingly sensitive and nuanced account that is a must-read not only for those interested in the specificities of emerging Indigenous artistic traditions in the Northern Territory and elsewhere, but also for those interested in the ongoing political, cultural and economic processes of so-called ‘settler’ societies across Australia and beyond." -- Peter Kilroy * LSE Review of Books *"Remote Avant-Garde: Aboriginal Art under Occupation, by Jennifer Loureide Biddle, is a welcome addition to the literature on Indigenous Australian art, and more broadly to anthropologies of art, Indigenous Australia, and global Indigenous arts and aesthetics. I heartily recommend it to anyone in those fields, and would happily teach with it in anthropology, art history, art/artworlds, and museum studies." -- Sabra G. Thorner * Anthropological Quarterly *"Jennifer Loureide Biddle has dared to deal with a daunting, dazzling array of 'remote' art in its multiple forms and complex contexts. The result is a profound, far from dispassionate book which does justice to an extraordinary canon of art." -- Noelene Cole * Journal of Anthropological Research *"Remote Avant-Garde brilliantly revitalizes the literature on Aboriginal art by attending to fascinating experimental art practices and a fresh aesthetics emerging in remote Aboriginal communities. . . . [It] should be read not only by scholars interested in Aboriginal art but also anyone wanting to understand creative forms of political agency in colonial and postcolonial contexts." -- Rosita Henry * American Anthropologist *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations vii Acknowledgments xiii Introduction. The Imperative to Experiment 1 1. Humanitarian Imperialism 21 Part I. Biliteracies 2. Tangentyere Artists 41 3. June Walkutjukurr Richards 77 4. Rhonda Unurupa Dick 91 Part II. Hapticities 5. Tjanpi Desert Weavers 109 6. Warnayaka Art: Yurlpa 139 7. Yarrenyty Arltere Artists 159 Part III. Happenings 8. Yiwarra Kuju: The Canning Stock Route 181 9. The Warburton Arts Project 197 Epilogue: (Not) a "Lifestyle Choice" 217 Notes 221 Further Resources 233 References 235 Index 257
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University of Hawai'i Press Hawaiis Russian Adventure A New Look at Old History
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University of Hawai'i Press Anthropologys Global Histories The Ethnographic
Book SynopsisExplores the resulting interactions between German colonial officials, resident ethnographic collectors, and indigenous peoples, arguing that all were instrumental in the formation of anthropological theory. This book shows how ethnological collecting, often a competitive affair, could become politicized and connect to national concerns.
£42.75
University of Hawai'i Press Lee Boo of Belau A Prince in London South Seas Book
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£18.66
University of Hawai'i Press Sailors and Traders A Maritime History of the
Book SynopsisWritten by a senior scholar and master mariner, this title gives an account of the maritime peoples of the Pacific. It focuses on the sailors who led the exploration and settlement of the islands and New Zealand and their seagoing descendants. It begins by detailing the traditions of sailors, a group whose way of life sets them apart.
£41.25
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
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University of Hawai'i Press Destinys Landfall A History of Guam
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University of Hawai'i Press Twelve Days at Nuku Hiva Russian Encounters and Mutiny in the South Pacific
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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University of Hawai'i Press The Archaeology of the Solomon Islands
Book SynopsisArchaeology of the Solomon Islands presents the outcome of 20 years' research in the Solomon Islands undertaken jointly by Richard Walter and Peter Sheppard, both leaders in the field of Pacific archaeology. At the time of first European encounter, the peoples of Melanesia exhibited some of the greatest diversity in language, socio-political organisation and culture expression of any region on earth. This extraordinary diversity attracted scholars and resulted in coastal Melanesia becoming the birthplace of modern anthropology, and yet the area remains one of the least well-documented regions of the Pacific in archaeological terms. This synthesis of Solomon Island archaeology draws together all the research that has taken place in the field over the past 50 years. It takes a multidisciplinary theoretical and methodological approach and considers the work of archaeologists, environmental scientists, anthropologists and historians. At the same time this volume highlights the results
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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.
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University of Hawai'i Press Exile in Colonial Asia Kings Convicts Commemoration Perspectives on the Global Past
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University of Hawai'i Press The Journal of James Macrae
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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.
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University of Hawai'i Press Naturalist Histories
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University of Hawai'i Press First Fieldwork
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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.
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University of Hawai'i Press Ignored Histories
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