Islanders: The Pacific in the Age of Empire

by Nicholas Thomas

Book Overview

An incisive, evocative history of the experience of empire in the Oceanic world

This compelling book explores the lived experience of empire in the Pacific, the last region to be contacted and colonized by Europeans following the great voyages of Captain Cook. Unlike conventional accounts that emphasize confrontation and the destruction of indigenous cultures, Islanders reveals there was gain as well as loss, survival as well...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 030018056X
• ISBN13: 9780300180565
• Release Date: February 2012
• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.6" x 9.4"