Author: Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.). Crosby Brown CollectionPublisher:
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Category : Musical instruments
Languages : en
Pages : 490
Book Description
Oceanica and America
Author: Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.). Crosby Brown CollectionPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Musical instruments
Languages : en
Pages : 490
Book Description
South Seas Encounters
Author: Richard FultonPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 0429885008
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 408
Book Description
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. This volume makes a significant contribution to increasing scholarly interest in Oceania’s place in British and American nineteenth-century cultural experiences. South Seas Encounters investigates these significant interactions and how they changed the ways that Oceanic, British, and American cultures reflected on themselves and their place in the wider world.
Hearings
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Category : Legislative hearings
Languages : en
Pages : 1320
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American Economist
Author: American Pacificism
Author: Paul LyonsPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134264143
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 584
Book Description
This provocative analysis and critique of American representations of Oceania and Oceanians from the nineteenth century to the present, argues that imperial fantasies have glossed over a complex, violent history. It introduces the concept of ‘American Pacificism’, a theoretical framework that draws on contemporary theories of friendship, hospitality and tourism to refigure established debates around ‘orientalism’ for an Oceanian context. Paul Lyons explores American-Islander relations and traces the ways in which two fundamental conceptions of Oceania have been entwined in the American imagination. On the one hand, the Pacific islands are seen as economic and geopolitical ‘stepping stones’, rather than ends in themselves, whilst on the other they are viewed as ends of the earth or ‘cultural limits’, unencumbered by notions of sin, antitheses to the industrial worlds of economic and political modernity. However, both conceptions obscure not only Islander cultures, but also innovative responses to incursion. The islands instead emerge in relation to American national identity, as places for scientific discovery, soul-saving and civilizing missions, manhood-testing adventure, nuclear testing and eroticized furloughs between maritime work and warfare. Ranging from first contact and the colonial archive through to postcolonialism and global tourism, this thought-provoking volume draws upon a wide, rewarding collection of literary works, historical and cultural scholarship, government documents and tourist literature.
General Atlas of the World
Author: Discriminatory Ocean Freight Rates and the Balance of Payments
Author: United States. Congress. Joint Economic CommitteePublisher:
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Category : Balance of payments
Languages : en
Pages : 520
Book Description
Report of the Federal Security Agency
Author: United States. Office of EducationPublisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1270
Book Description
Report of the Commissioner of Education
Author: United States. Office of EducationPublisher:
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Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 1276
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