Kategoria BISAC: History >> Australia & New Zealand - General

• The first text to provide integrated treatment of the archaeologies of Australia and the Pacific Islands


• Enables readers to form a coherent overview of cultural developments across the region as a whole


• Brings together contributions from some of the region's leading scholars


• Focuses on new discoveries, conceptual innovations, and postcolonial realpolitik

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• The first text to provide integrated treatment of the archaeologies of Australia and the Pacific Islands


• Enables readers to form a coherent overview of cultural developments across the region as a whole


• Brings together contributions from some of the region's leading scholars


• Focuses on new discoveries, conceptual innovations, and postcolonial realpolitik

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Refugees are on the move around the globe. Prosperous nations are rapidly adjusting their laws to crack down on the so-called ?undeserving.? Australia and Canada have each sought international reputations as humanitarian do-gooders, especially in the area of refugee admissions.

Humanitarianism, Identity, and Nation traces the connections between the nation-building tradition of immigration and the challenge of admitting people who do not reflect the national interest of the twenty-first century. Catherine Dauvergne argues that in the absence of the justice standard for...

In October of 2001, the Australian High Court confirmed aboriginal title to two thousand kilometres of ocean off the north coast. The decision, which was the result of a seven-year court battle, highlighted aboriginal belief that the sea is a gift from the creator to be used for sustenance, spirituality, identity, and community. This evocative study of the people of northern coastal Australia and their sea worlds illuminates the power of human attachment to place.

Saltwater People: The Waves of Memory offers a cross-disciplinary approach to native land claims that incorporates...

America's efforts at economic development in the Caroline, Mariana, and Marshall Islands proved to be about transforming in dramatic fashion people who occupied real estate deemed vital to American strategic concerns. Called Micronesians, these island people were regarded as other, and their otherness came to be seen as incompatible with American interests.

And so, underneath the liberal rhetoric that surrounded arguments, proposals, and programs for economic development was a deeper purpose. America's domination would be sustained by the remaking of these islands into places that...

This insightful analysis of British imperialism in the south Pacific explores the impulses behind British calls for the protection and improvement of islanders.

From kingmaking projects in Hawaii, Tonga, and Fiji to the antislavery campaign against the labor trade in the Western pacific, the author examines the deeply subjective, cultural roots permeating Britons' attitudes toward Pacific Islanders.

By teasing out the connections between those attitudes and the British humanitarian and antislavery movements, Imperial Benevolence reminds us that nineteenth-century Britain...

America's efforts at economic development in the Caroline, Mariana, and Marshall Islands proved to be about transforming in dramatic fashion people who occupied real estate deemed vital to American strategic concerns. Called Micronesians, these island people were regarded as other, and their otherness came to be seen as incompatible with American interests.

And so, underneath the liberal rhetoric that surrounded arguments, proposals, and programs for economic development was a deeper purpose. America's domination would be sustained by the remaking of these islands into places that...

What actually happened as Europeans and peoples of the Pacific discovered each other? How have their respective senses of the past influenced their understanding of the present? And what are the consequences of their meeting?

In this collection of essays, scholars from European, Polynesian, and Settler backgrounds provide answers to these questions. Writing from, and between, a variety of disciplines (history, anthropology, Maori Studies, literary criticism, law, cultural studies, art history, Pacific Studies), they show how the Pacific reveals a more various and contradictory...