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Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “mandy treagus”
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  • The Pacific Tale

    Short Fiction from 1890-1950

    by Mandy Treagus ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    This book offers a genealogy of short fiction in English set in the Pacific and written by British, American, and Australian writers. Through its analysis of texts by non-Islander authors such as Robert Louis Stevenson, Louis Becke, Jack London, W. Somerset Maugham, and James A. Michener, this book traces the rise of 'The Pacific Tale' as a popular genre. Exploring themes of masculinity and ... Read more

    $140.99 CAD

  • Anglo-American Imperialism and the Pacific

    Discourses of Encounter

    Edited by Michelle Keown, Andrew Taylor, Mandy Treagus ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Postcolonial Literatures
    This interdisciplinary collection explores the confluence of American and British (neo)imperalism in the Pacific, as represented in various forms of Pacific discourse including literature, ethnography, film, painting, autobiography, journalism, and environmental discourse. It investigates the alliances and rivalries between these two colonial powers during the crucial transition period of the ... Read more

    $92.99 CAD

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  • Inventing 'Easter Island'

    by Beverley Haun ...
    Easter Island, or Rapa Nui as it is known to its inhabitants, is located in the Pacific Ocean, 3600 kilometres west of South America. Annexed by Chile in 1888, the island has been a source of fascination for the world beyond the island since the first visit by Europeans in 1722 due to its intriguing statues and complex history. Inventing 'Easter Island' examines narrative strategies and visual ... Read more

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  • Tattoo

    Bodies, Art and Exchange in the Pacific and Europe

    Edited by Nicholas Thomas, Anna Cole, Bronwen Douglas ...
    The popularity of tattoos today is a revival of a practice begun in the late eighteenth century, when Westerners first made contact with the native peoples of the Pacific. The term ‘tattoo’ entered Europe with the publication of Captain Cook's voyages in the 1770s, and Pacific tattoos became fashionable in the West as sailors, whalers and explorers brought home tattoos from Tahiti, the Marquesas, ... Read more

    $36.99 CAD

  • Travel Writing

    by Casey Blanton ...
    Series series Genres in Context
    Blanton follows the development of travel writing from classical times to the present, focusing in particular on Anglo-American travel writing since the eighteenth century. He identifies significant theoretical and critical contributions to the field, and also examines key texts by James Boswell, Mary Kingsley, Graham Greene, Peter Mathiessen, V.S. Naipaul, and Bruce Chatwin. ... Read more

    $83.81 CAD

  • Sea Changes

    Historicizing the Ocean

    Edited by Bernhard Klein, Gesa Mackenthun ...
    The sea has been the site of radical changes in human lives and national histories. It has been an agent of colonial oppression but also of indigenous resistance, a site of loss, dispersal and enforced migration but also of new forms of solidarity and affective kinship. Sea**Changes re-evaluates the view that history happens mainly on dry land and makes the case for a creative reinterpretation of ... Read more

    $89.31 CAD

  • Islands, Identity and the Literary Imagination

    by Elizabeth McMahon ...
    Series series Anthem Studies in Australian Literature and Culture
    Australia is the planet’s sole island continent. This book argues that the uniqueness of this geography has shaped Australian history and culture, including its literature. Further, it shows how the fluctuating definition of the island continent throws new light on the relationship between islands and continents in the mapping of modernity. The book links the historical and geographical conditions ... Read more

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  • Reinterpreting Exploration

    The West in the World

    Edited by Dane Kennedy ...
    Series series Reinterpreting History: How Historical Assessments Change over Time
    Exploration was a central and perhaps defining aspect of the West's encounters with other peoples and lands. Rather than reproduce celebratory narratives of individual heroism and national glory, this volume focuses on exploration's instrumental role in shaping a European sense of exceptionalism and its iconic importance in defining the terms of cultural engagement with other peoples. In chapters ... Read more

    $31.99 CAD

  • The Reef

    A Passionate History

    by Iain McCalman ...
    Stretching 1,400 miles along the Australian coast and visible from space, the Great Barrier Reef is home to three thousand individual reefs, more than nine hundred islands, and thousands of marine species, and has alternately been viewed as a deadly maze, an economic bounty, a scientific frontier, and a precarious World Heritage site. Now the historian and explorer Iain McCalman takes us on a new ... Read more

    $19.19 CAD

  • Think Like an Anthropologist

    by Matthew Engelke ...
    Series series Pelican Books
    What is anthropology? What can it tell us about culture and the world around us? And why do we need it?For well over one hundred years, social and cultural anthropologists have traversed the world from Melanesia to suburban England, Taipei to Wall Street, uncovering surprising facts, patterns, predilections and, sometimes, the inexplicable, in terms of how humans organize their lives and ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • This Horrid Practice

    by Paul Moon ...
    'Though stronger evidence of this horrid practice prevailing among the inhabitants of this coast will scarcely be required, we have still stronger to give.' - Captain James Cook This Horrid Practice uncovers an unexplored taboo of New Zealand history - the widespread practice of cannibalism in pre-European Maori society. Until now, many historians have tried to avoid it and many Maori have ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD

  • The Art of Time Travel

    Historians and Their Craft

    by Tom Griffiths ...
    No matter how practised we are at history, it always humbles us. No matter how often we visit the past, it always surprises us.Winner of the Ernest Scott Prize and Shortlisted for the NSW Premier's Literary Award for Non-fiction'A rare feat of imagination and generosity' —Mark McKennaWith every sentence they write, historians must walk the tightrope between discipline and imagination, empathy and ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD