Texts and Contexts

Reflections in Pacific Islands Historiography
Erscheinungsjahr 2005
ISBN: 978-0-8248-2942-1
Verlag: University of Hawaii Press

Buch, Englisch, 264 Seiten, Hardback, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 236 mm, Gewicht: 544 g

Texts and Contexts is concerned with the development of Pacific Islands history as a specialization in its own right. Specifically, this volume examines the foundational texts that pioneered and consolidated the new subdiscipline and served as the building blocks and stepping-stone for further developments in the field. Thirty-five texts, all of which represent defining points in the development of Pacific Islands historiography, are examined. Much more than retrospective appraisals of the foundational texts, the individual chapters consider a text or complimentary texts within the context of the time of writing and gauge what ongoing influence they exerted. In some cases they suggest how a particular text has been superseded by subsequent work that breaks new conceptual ground in the ongoing process of revisionism.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Munro, Doug

Lal, Brij V

Über Autor(innen)

Doug Munro is a Wellington-based consultant historian and author. Brij V. Lal is professor of Pacific and Asian history in the Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, The Australian National University.