Voyages and Beaches: Pacific Encounters, 1769-1840 by David Nichol Smith Memorial Seminar 1993 (University of Auckland), Alex Calder (Editor), Jonathan Lamb (Editor), Bridget Orr (Editor) - 1999-03-01

University of Hawaii Press. Used - Very Good. 1999. Hardcover. Cloth, dj. Minor shelf wear. Clean copy. Very Good. (Subject: Anthropology).

University of Hawaii Press. Used - Like New. illustrated edition. 1999. Hardcover. Fine. Dust Jacket is Like New.

University of Hawaii Press, 1999. Hardcover. Like New/Near Fine. 9x6x1. 17 essays by scholars from European, Polynesian, and Settler backgrounds on the meeting of Europeans and peoples of the Pacific and the consequences of those meetings. Writers include I. Futa Helu, Pat Hohepa, Okusitino Mahina, Malama Meleisea, Paul Turnbull, and others. 344pp. Index. B/w illus. **

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Honolulu, Hawaii: University of Hawai'i Press, 1999 Pacific Encounters, 1769 - 1840
What actually happened as Europeans and peoples of the Pacific discovered each other? How have their respective senses of the past influenced their understanding of the present? And what are the consequences of their meeting?

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Hardcover. Very good. University of Hawaii, 1999, 344 pages, hardcover in a very good dust jacket, no owner's mark or underlining.

Honolulu: Univ of Hawaii Pr, 1999. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo. pp. viii 344.

University of Hawaii Press. Used - Very Good. Ships from the UK. Former library book; may include library markings. Used book that is in excellent condition. May show signs of wear or have minor defects.

Honolulu, Hawaii: University of Hawaii Press, 1999. First edition; hardcover in dustjacket. A Fine copy in brand new condition, in a similar jacket.. New.

Honolulu : University of Hawaii Press, 1999. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dw. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Literally as new; 8vo 8"" - 9"" tall; 344 pages; Description: viii, 344 p. : ill. , map ; 24 cm. Papers presented at the 9th David Nichol Smith Memorial Seminar, University of Auckland, 1993. Includes bibliographical references and index. Subjects: Oceania --Discovery and exploration --Congresses. Summary: Writing from and between a variety of disciplines, scholars from European, Polynesian and Settler backgrounds show how the Pacific reveals a more various and contradictory history than that supposed by such homogenizing metropolitan myths as the introduction of civilization to savage peoples, the general ruin of indigenous cultures by an imperial juggernaut, or the mimicry of European models by an abject population.