South Seas Encounters Nineteenth-Century Oceania, Britain, and America

Richard Fulton, "South Seas Encounters: Nineteenth-Century Oceania, Britain, and America "
English | ISBN: 1138606758 | 2018 | 258 pages | PDF | 7 MB
South Seas Encounters examines several key types of encounters between the many-faceted worlds of Oceania, Britain and the United States in the formative nineteenth century. The eleven essays collected in this volume focus not only on the effect of the two powerful, industrialized colonial powers on the cultures of the Pacific, but the effect of those cultures on the Western cultural perceptions of themselves and the wider world, including understanding encounters and exchanges in ways which do not underemphasize the agency and consequences for all participating parties. The essays also provide insights into the causes, unfolding, and consequences for both sides of a series of significant ethnographic, political, cultural, scientific, educational, and social encounters.