Kategoria BISAC: History >> Oceania

• 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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During the nineteenth century, British and American settlers acquired a vast amount of land from indigenous people throughout the Pacific, but in no two places did they acquire it the same way. Stuart Banner tells the story of colonial settlement in Australia, New Zealand, Fiji, Tonga, Hawaii, California, Oregon, Washington, British Columbia, and Alaska. Today, indigenous people own much more land in some of these places than in others. And certain indigenous peoples benefit from treaty rights, while others do not. These variations are traceable to choices made more than a century...

How does law transform family, sexuality, and community in the fractured social world characteristic of the colonizing process? The law was a cornerstone of the so-called civilizing process of nineteenth-century colonialism. It was simultaneously a means of transformation and a marker of the seductive idea of civilization. Sally Engle Merry reveals how, in Hawai'i, indigenous Hawaiian law was displaced by a transplanted Anglo-American law as global movements of capitalism, Christianity, and imperialism swept across the islands. The new law brought novel systems of courts, prisons, and...