by Nicholas Thomas · Yale University Press · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780300180565
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Dive into the fascinating history of the Pacific during the age of empire with 'Islanders' by Nicholas Thomas. This book explores the lived experience of empire in the Pacific, the last region to be contacted and colonized by Europeans following the 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 as suffering, and invention as well as exploitation.
With imaginative research in obscure archives and collections, Thomas rediscovers a rich and surprising history of encounters, not only between Islanders and Europeans, but among Islanders, brought together in new ways by explorers, missionaries, and colonists. He tells the story of the making of empire, not through an impersonal survey, but through vivid stories of the lives of men and women—some visionary, some vicious, and some just eccentric—and through sensuous evocation of seascapes and landscapes of the Pacific.
American screenwriter, television director and producer
