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Author : Thomas Jefferson Jacobs
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1844
Category : Oceania
ISBN : HARVARD:HXCPW7
Author : Thomas Jefferson Jacobs
Publisher : Legare Street Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2022-10-27
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1016613571
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Author : Sean Brawley,Chris Dixon
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2015-04-21
Category : History
ISBN : 9780739193365
The South Seas is an innovative work of cultural history, tracing the ways in which the idea of “the South Seas” has been understood and transmitted through Western culture since the eighteenth century.
Author : Max Quanchi,John Robson
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2005-10-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9780810865280
The South Seas, as this region used to be called, conjured up images of adventure, belles and savages, romance and fabulous fortunes, but the long voyages of discovery and exploration of the vast Pacific Ocean were really an exercise in amazing logistics, navigation, hard grit, shipwreck and pure luck. The motivations were scientific and geographic, but at the same time nationalistic and materialistic. A series on global exploration and discovery would not be complete without this book by Quanchi and Robson. It is ambitious and informative and includes the familiar names of Laperouse, Bougainville, Cook and Dampier, as well as the intriguing stories of the Bounty Mutiny, scurvy, and the mysterious Northwest Passage, Terra Australis Ignotia and Davis Land. There are entries on first contacts, ships, navigational instruments, mapping, and botany. The scene is carefully set in the introduction, the chronology spans several centuries, and the extensive bibliography offers a guide to further reading. There are more than just dry facts in this book. It has a whiff of salt air, the clash of empires, cross-cultural beach encounters and personal adventure.
Author : Thomas Jefferson Jacobs
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1844
Category : Oceania
ISBN : OCLC:1017175141
Author : John Dunmore
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2019-09-30
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9780824883942
More than four centuries have passed since Europeans first set eyes on the Pacific, that vast ocean about which earlier generations had theorized and fantasized. They soon ventured forth in search of undiscovered lands, unknown peoples, and imagined riches . Eventually, the Pacific came to reflect the rivalries of Europe, as Spanish explorers were followed by the Dutch, the English, and the French, and then by traders and colonizers. Now, for the first time, collected in a single, convenient reference volume, readers will be able to find details of the lives and achievements of those who took part in this great era of exploration. This biographical dictionary includes the major figures of the voyages of exploration, as well as missionaries, traders, whalers, naturalists, and others who by accident or design contributed to European discovery in the Pacific between the sixteenth and early twentieth centuries. Scholars and others interested in this era will be able to identify easily and promptly the people they come across in their reading, situate them in their proper context, and gain an idea of their background, travels, and achievements. John Dunmore has scrutinized a wealth of primary and secondary sources to amass the information collected here. Some biographies are lengthy-noted individuals, like Cook, have spawned a massive bibliography — while others reflect the sparsity of the historical record. Who 's Who in Pacific Navigation includes a detailed bibliography, organized by country, to aid those wishing to delve further into any subject. The comprehensive index makes the information in the volume easily accessible.
Author : R. Wally Johnson
Publisher : ANU E Press
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2013-12-18
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781922144232
Volcanic eruptions have killed thousands of people and damaged homes, villages, infrastructure, subsistence gardens, and hunting and fishing grounds in Papua New Guinea and the Solomon Islands. The central business district of a town was destroyed by a volcanic eruption in the case of Rabaul in 1994. Volcanic disasters litter not only the recent written history of both countries—particularly Papua New Guinea—but are recorded in traditional stories as well. Furthermore, evidence for disastrous volcanic eruptions many times greater than any witnessed in historical times is to be found in the geological record. Volcanic risk is greater today than at any time previously because of larger, mainly sedentary populations on or near volcanoes in both countries. An attempt is made in this book to review what is known about past volcanic eruptions and disasters with a view to determining how best volcanic risk can be reduced today in this tectonically complex and volcanically threatening region.
Author : David A. Chappell
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2016-09-16
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781315479118
This narrative recounts the 18th and 19th century shipping out of Pacific islanders aboard European and American vessels, a kind of counter-exploring, that echoed the ancient voyages of settlement of their island ancestors.
Author : Gwyn Campbell,Alessandro Stanziani
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2015-10-06
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781317320081
This volume of essays contains case studies of debt bondage covering the impact of an expanding globalized economy, increased commercialization, colonial and post-colonial societies, and emerging economies.
Author : Alexander Vietts Blake
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1847
Category : American literature
ISBN : UOM:39015023471231
Author : Hawaiian Historical Society. Library
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1897
Category : Hawaii
ISBN : STANFORD:36105047070243
Author : Library of Congress
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 714 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1861
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0027072317
Author : Harper & Brothers
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1859
Category : Publishers and publishing
ISBN : PRNC:32101026908176
Author : Anonymous
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2023-04-29
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9783382321079
Reprint of the original, first published in 1859. The publishing house Anatiposi publishes historical books as reprints. Due to their age, these books may have missing pages or inferior quality. Our aim is to preserve these books and make them available to the public so that they do not get lost.
Author : Gerald Horne
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2007-05-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9780824865177
Worldwide supplies of sugar and cotton were impacted dramatically as the U.S. Civil War dragged on. New areas of production entered these lucrative markets, particularly in the South Pacific, and plantation agriculture grew substantially in disparate areas such as Australia, Fiji, and Hawaii. The increase in production required an increase in labor; in the rush to fill the vacuum, freebooters and other unsavory characters began a slave trade in Melanesians and Polynesians that continued into the twentieth century. The White Pacific ranges over the broad expanse of Oceania to reconstruct the history of "blackbirding" (slave trading) in the region. It examines the role of U.S. citizens (many of them ex-slaveholders and ex-confederates) in the trade and its roots in Civil War dislocations. What unfolds is a dramatic tale of unfree labor, conflicts between formal and informal empire, white supremacy, threats to sovereignty in Hawaii, the origins of a White Australian policy, and the rise of Japan as a Pacific power and putative protector. It also pieces together a wonderfully suggestive history of the African American presence in the Pacific. Based on deft archival research in Australia, New Zealand, Fiji, Hawaii, the United States, and Great Britain, The White Pacific uncovers a heretofore hidden story of race, labor, war, and intrigue that contributes significantly to the emerging intersectional histories of race and ethnicity.