Islanders: The Pacific in the Age of Empire

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. This title reveals that there was gain as well as loss, survival as well as suffering, and invention as well as exploitation.

• | By (Author): Nicholas Thomas (Author)
• | Publisher: Yale University Press
• | Publication Date: Mar 15, 2012
• | Country of Publication: United States
• | Number of Pages: 352 pages
• | Language: NULL
• | Binding: Paperback / softback
• | ISBN-10: 030018056X
• | ISBN-13: 9780300180565