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Depicted by the man himself, The Journals of James Cook is an
intimate first-hand account, providing an uncensored and reliable
narrative of adventures spanning across the globe. The Journals of
James Cook depict three of Captain James Cook's most glorious
expeditions, starting in 1768 and leading to Cook's tragic death in
1779. Having ventured all over the Pacific, Cook encountered lands
not yet charted by the British. Though his discoveries and maps
inadvertently led to British colonization, Cook held a deep respect
for the native people he encountered. He recorded their practices
and wrote of them fondly. Cook even befriended some of the native
people he encountered, including a Tahitian man who, after hearing
of Cook's homeland, wanted to visit it as well. Per the man's
request, Cook sailed him to Britain, where the man stayed until he
and Cook sailed back to Tahiti three years later. After charting
Australia, and the whole coast of New Zealand, Cook was involved in
a plot to kidnap a Hawaiian monarch and ransom them in order to
recover stolen property. He was killed during this expedition,
leaving behind a legacy of a detailed description of the Pacific
Ocean and its coasts. James Cook's expeditions around the world and
his detailed and innovative work as a cartographer inspired
advancements in scientific, medical, historical and geological
fields. His influence has also reached the literary world,
inspiring novel series and characters, including the infamous
Captain Hook. Exuding ambition, courage, and confidence, The
Journals of James Cook provide a privileged peak into the travels
and accomplishments of an adventurous, and invaluable man. Packed
with wonder but free of imperialistic arrogance, The Journals of
James Cook serve as a valuable an intriguing primary source of a
time when places in the world were yet to be mapped. Now presented
in an easy-to-read font and redesigned with a stunning new cover,
James Cook' The Journals of James Cook is accommodating to
contemporary readers, providing a fresh version of the esteemed
literary work while preserving its wonders and adventures.
A moving account of Hawaii's most culturally significant stories,
presented by King David Kalakaua. The Legends and Myths of Hawaii
introduces readers to the social, historical, and religious customs
of native Hawaiians, revealing the history of a culture that, for
many years, functioned without outside influence. Chapters on
leaders such as "Hina, the Helen of Hawaii," "Hua, King of Hana,"
and "Kelea, the Surf-Rider of Maui" illustrate Hawaii's most
important tales and traditions. Originally published in 1888, King
David Kalakaua's book remains a compelling and enduring collection
of the archipelago's most memorable tales. With an eye-catching new
cover and professionally typeset manuscript, this edition of The
Legends and Myths of Hawaii is specially designed for modern
readers.
LARGE PRINT EDITION. Hawaii's Story by Hawaii's Queen is a moving
personal portrait of a girl who grew up to become Hawaii's first
and only queen, a beloved monarch who fought for the rights of her
people. Hawaii's Story by Hawaii's Queen is an autobiography by
Queen Lili'uokalani. Published in 1898, the book was written in the
aftermath of Lili'uokalani's attempt to appeal on behalf of her
people to President Grover Cleveland, a personal friend. Although
it inspired Cleveland to demand her reinstatement, the United
States Congress published the Morgan Report in 1894, which denied
U.S. involvement in the overthrow of the Kingdom of Hawaii.
Hawaii's Story by Hawaii's Queen appeared four years later as a
final effort by Lili'uokalani to advocate on behalf of Hawaiian
sovereignty, but it unfortunately came too late. That same year,
President McKinley and the United States Congress approved the
annexation of Hawaii. In Hawaii's Story by Hawaii's Queen,
Lili'uokalani reflects on her experiences as a young girl growing
up on Oahu, where she was raised as a member of the extended royal
family of King Kamehameha III. Born in Honolulu, she was educated
among her fellow royals from a young age. In addition to her
studies, Lili'uokalani developed an artistic sensibility early on,
and was fond of both writing and music. She crafted the lyrics to
the popular song "Aloha 'Oe" (1878), just one of the more than 100
songs she would write in her lifetime. Although her book was
unsuccessful as an attempt to advocate for Hawaiian sovereignty and
the restoration of the monarchy, it has since been recognized as a
moving personal portrait of a girl who grew up to become Hawaii's
first and only queen, a beloved monarch who fought for the rights
of her people. With a professionally designed cover and manuscript,
this edition of Lili'uokalani's Hawaii's Story by Hawaii's Queen is
a classic of Hawaiian literature designed for the modern audience.
Add this beautiful edition to your bookshelf, or enjoy the digital
edition on any e-book device.
The Snowy: A History tells the extraordinary story of the mostly
migrant workforce who built one of the world's engineering marvels.
This classic, prize-winning account of the remarkable Snowy Scheme
is available again for the 70th anniversary of this epic
nation-building project. The Snowy Scheme was an extraordinary
engineering feat carried out over twenty-five years from 1949 to
1974, one that drove rivers through tunnels built through the
Australian alps, irrigated the dry inland and generated energy for
the densely populated east coast. The Snowy Mountains Scheme was
also a site of post-war social engineering that helped create a
diverse multicultural nation. Siobhan McHugh's in-depth interviews
with those who were there at the time reveals the human stories of
migrant workers, high country locals, politicians and engineers. It
also examines the difficult and dangerous aspects of such a major
construction in which 121 men lost their lives. Rich and evocative,
this sweeping narrative tells stories of love, endurance, tragedy
and hard work during a transformative time. Includes 40 iconic
images of the construction of the Snowy Hydro Scheme. Redesigned
and updated, the book is available for the 70th anniversary of the
launch of the Scheme. Book now includes more detail on the
environmental impacts of the scheme.
The hidden story of how Australian troops' close encounters with
the cultures of our nearest neighbours altered our national
identity. Half a million Australians encountered a new world when
they entered Asia and the Pacific during World War II: different
peoples, cultures, languages and religions chafing under the grip
of colonial rule. This book paints a picture not only of individual
lives transformed, but of dramatically shifting national
perceptions, as the gaze of Australia turned from Britain to Asia.
Alike in many aspects of their histories, Australia and the United
States diverge in striking ways when it comes to their working
classes, labor relations, and politics. Greg Patmore and Shelton
Stromquist curate innovative essays that use transnational and
comparative analysis to explore the two nations' differences. The
contributors examine five major areas: World War I's impact on
labor and socialist movements; the history of coerced labor;
patterns of ethnic and class identification; forms of working-class
collective action; and the struggles related to trade union
democracy and independent working-class politics. Throughout, many
essays highlight how hard-won transnational ties allowed
Australians and Americans to influence each other's trade union and
political cultures. Contributors: Robin Archer, Nikola Balnave,
James R. Barrett, Bradley Bowden, Verity Burgmann, Robert Cherny,
Peter Clayworth, Tom Goyens, Dianne Hall, Benjamin Huf, Jennie
Jeppesen, Marjorie A. Jerrard, Jeffrey A. Johnson, Diane Kirkby,
Elizabeth Malcolm, Patrick O'Leary, Greg Patmore, Scott Stephenson,
Peta Stevenson-Clarke, Shelton Stromquist, and Nathan Wise
Alike in many aspects of their histories, Australia and the United
States diverge in striking ways when it comes to their working
classes, labor relations, and politics. Greg Patmore and Shelton
Stromquist curate innovative essays that use transnational and
comparative analysis to explore the two nations' differences. The
contributors examine five major areas: World War I's impact on
labor and socialist movements; the history of coerced labor;
patterns of ethnic and class identification; forms of working-class
collective action; and the struggles related to trade union
democracy and independent working-class politics. Throughout, many
essays highlight how hard-won transnational ties allowed
Australians and Americans to influence each other's trade union and
political cultures. Contributors: Robin Archer, Nikola Balnave,
James R. Barrett, Bradley Bowden, Verity Burgmann, Robert Cherny,
Peter Clayworth, Tom Goyens, Dianne Hall, Benjamin Huf, Jennie
Jeppesen, Marjorie A. Jerrard, Jeffrey A. Johnson, Diane Kirkby,
Elizabeth Malcolm, Patrick O'Leary, Greg Patmore, Scott Stephenson,
Peta Stevenson-Clarke, Shelton Stromquist, and Nathan Wise
On April 25th 1915, during the First World War, the famous Anzacs
landed ashore at Gallipoli. At the exact same moment, leading
figures of Armenian life in the Ottoman Empire were being arrested
in vast numbers. That dark day marks the simultaneous birth of a
national story - and the beginning of a genocide. When We Dead
Awaken - the first narrative history of the Armenian Genocide in
decades - draws these two landmark historical events together.
James Robins explores the accounts of Anzac Prisoners of War who
witnessed the genocide, the experiences of soldiers who risked
their lives to defend refugees, and Australia and New Zealand's
participation in the enormous post-war Armenian relief movement. By
exploring the vital political implications of this unexplored
history, When We Dead Awaken questions the national folklore of
Australia, New Zealand, and Turkey - and the mythology of Anzac Day
itself.
The first anthropological monograph published on the Vula'a people
of south-eastern Papua New Guinea, The Shark Warrior of Alewai
considers oral histories and Western historical documents that
cover a period of more than 200 years in the light of an
ethnography of contemporary Christianity. Van Heekeren's
phenomenology of Vula'a storytelling reveals how the life of one
man, the Shark Warrior, comes to contain the identity of a people.
Drawing on the philosophy of Martin Heidegger, she goes on to
establish the essential continuities that underpin the reproduction
of Vula'a identity, and to demonstrate how these give a distinctive
form to Vula'a responses to historical change. In an approach that
brings together the fields of Anthropology, History and Philosophy,
the book questions conventional anthropological categories of
exchange, gender and kinship, as well as the problematic
dichotomization of myth and history, to argue for an anthropology
grounded in ontology.
The 1881 invasion of Parihaka is one of the most disturbing events
in New Zealand history. Blending the personal and the historical,
this book tracks the author's discovery of her family's links with
Parihaka and her M?ori and P?keh? ancestors.
Between 1850 and 1907, Native Hawaiians sought to develop
relationships with other Pacific Islanders, reflecting how they
viewed not only themselves as a people but their wider connections
to Oceania and the globe. Kealani Cook analyzes the relatively
little known experiences of Native Hawaiian missionaries,
diplomats, and travelers, shedding valuable light on the rich but
understudied accounts of Hawaiians outside of Hawai'i. Native
Hawaiian views of other islanders typically corresponded with their
particular views and experiences of the Native Hawaiian past. The
more positive their outlook, the more likely they were to seek
cross-cultural connections. This is an important intervention in
the growing field of Pacific and Oceanic history and the study of
native peoples of the Americas, where books on indigenous Hawaiians
are few and far between. Cook returns the study of Hawai'i to a
central place in the history of cultural change in the Pacific.
Hawaiian: Past, Present, Future presents aspects of Hawaiian and
its history that are rarely treated in language classes. The major
characters in this book make up a diverse cast: Dutch merchants,
Captain Cook's naturalist and philologist William Anderson,
'Opukaha'ia (the inspiration for the Hawaiian Mission), the
American lexicographer Noah Webster, philologists in New England,
missionary-linguists and their Hawaiian consultants, and many minor
players. The account begins in prehistory, placing the probable
origins of the ancestor of Polynesian languages in Mainland Asia.
An evolving family tree reflects the linguistic changes that took
place as these people moved east. The current versions are examined
from a Hawaiian-centered point of view, comparing the sound system
of the language with those of its major relatives in the Polynesian
triangle. More recent historical topics begin with the first
written samples of a Polynesian language in 1616, which led to the
birth of the idea of a widespread language family. The next topic
is how the Hawaiian alphabet was developed. The first efforts
suffered from having too many letters, a problem that was solved in
1826 through brilliant reasoning by its framers and their Hawaiian
consultants. The opposite problem was that the alphabet didn't have
enough letters: analysts either couldn't hear or misinterpreted the
glottal stop and long vowels. The end product of the development of
the alphabet-literacy-is more complicated than some statistics
would have us believe. As for its success or failure, both points
of view, from contemporary observers, are presented. Still, it
cannot be denied that literacy had a tremendous and lasting effect
on Hawaiian culture. The last part of the book concentrates on the
most-used Hawaiian reference works-dictionaries. It describes
current projects that combine print and manuscript collections on a
searchable website. These projects can include the growing body of
manuscript and print material that is being made available through
recent and on-going research. As for the future, a proposed
monolingual dictionary would allow users to avoid an English bridge
to understanding, and move directly to a definition that includes
Hawaiian cultural features and a Hawaiian world view.
Still Learning: A 50 Year History of Monash University Peninsula
Campus is an institutional history that brings the lives of
students and staff academic and extracurricular into focus, and
conveys the excitement and atmosphere of the times. Several of
Australia s most famous artists, teachers, writers, politicians and
entertainers studied at Peninsula Campus, and Still Learning
connects significant moments in Australia s history to their time
on campus. Well known children s writer Paul Jennings, artist and
sculptor Peter Corlett and the incorrigible Max Gillies were all
students at the institution. As editor of the student magazine
Struan, Gillies made a name for himself in 1962 over the issue of
censorship, at a timewhen censorship laws greatly impacted on the
value of student reading materials. In the 1960s and 1970s a Miss
Frankston competition, which would not be countenanced today, was a
popular event. Students writing in Struan enjoyed a staple diet of
sport, social activities, rock music, sexual relationships, and
interstate and overseas trips. They nonetheless complained of lack
of funds for food The 1970s were turbulent times in Australia, and
the issues of the day played out in the lives of students and staff
on the campus. Still Learning highlights the Portsea Annexe and the
significant part it played as an external venue for teachers
developing their classroom experience. In its in carnations as
Frankston Teachers College and the State College of Victoria at
Frankston, the institution thrived. However, as the Chisholm
Institute of Technology at Frankston it faced many challenges and
entered into a period of relative decline.The timely merger with
Monash University in 1990 slowly improved the campus s fortunes.
Today, Monash University Peninsula Campus is a significant part of
the southern hemisphere s largest university, with a vibrant campus
and a key focus as a health precinct.
There has been little written about Tenison Woods who as a
significant figure in Australian Catholic Church life at the time
of St Mary Mackillop, Australia's first Catholic Saint. This is a
story about the work of the Sisters of St Joseph, an Australian
Catholic Religious Order of women, founded by St Mary Mackillop, in
Tasmania. An intriguing story of a group of women who were not part
of the Centralised Josephite Sisters under Mary Mackillop, who for
a variety of reasons were under the diocesan Catholic Bishop in
Tasmania. The books documents their 125 year history from
foundation right through to Vatican approval of the being brought
under the Federation of Josephite Sisters in Australia.
Nauru is often figured as an anomaly in the international order.
This book offers a new account of Nauru's imperial history and
examines its significance to the histories of international law.
Drawing on theories of jurisdiction and bureaucracy, it
reconstructs four shifts in Nauru's status - from German
protectorate, to League of Nations C Mandate, to UN Trust
Territory, to sovereign state - as a means of redescribing the
transition from the nineteenth century imperial order to the
twentieth century state system. The book argues that as
international status shifts, imperial form accretes: as Nauru's
status shifted, what occurred at the local level was a gradual
process of bureaucratisation. Two conclusions emerge from this
argument. The first is that imperial administration in Nauru
produced the Republic's post-independence 'failures'. The second is
that international recognition of sovereign status is best
understood as marking a beginning, not an end, of the process of
decolonisation.
Shortlised for the Saltire Society Non Fiction Book of the Year
Award Almost every adult and child is familiar with his Treasure
Island, but few know that Robert Louis Stevenson lived out his last
years on an equally remote island, which was squabbled over by
colonial powers much as Captain Flint's treasure was contested by
the mongrel crew of the Hispaniola. In 1890 Stevenson settled in
Upolu, an island in Samoa, after two years sailing round the South
Pacific. He was given a Samoan name and became a fierce critic of
the interference of Germany, Britain and the U.S.A. in Samoan
affairs - a stance that earned him Oscar Wilde's sneers, and
brought him into conflict with the Colonial Office, who regarded
him as a menace and even threatened him with expulsion from the
island. Joseph Farrell's pioneering study of Stevenson's twilight
years stands apart from previous biographies by giving as much
weight to the Samoa and the Samoans - their culture, their manners,
their history - as to the life and work of the man himself. For it
is only by examining the full complexity of Samoa and the political
situation it faced as the nineteenth century gave way to the
twentieth, that Stevenson's lasting and generous contribution to
its cause can be appreciated.
When Western scholars write about non-Western societies, do they
inevitably perpetuate the myths of European imperialism? Can they
ever articulate the meanings and logics of non-Western peoples? Who
has the right to speak for whom? Questions such as these are
debated in this text. Marshall Sahlins addresses these issues head
on, while building a case for the ability of anthropologists
working in the Western tradition to understand other cultures. In
recent years, these questions have arisen in debates over the death
and deification of Captain James Cook on Hawaii Island in 1779. Did
the Hawaiians truly receive Cook as a manifestation of their own
god Lono? Or were they too pragmatic, too worldly-wise to accept
the foreigner as a god? Moreover, can a "non-native" scholar give
voice to a "native" point of view? This volume seeks to go far
beyond specialized debates about the alleged superiority of Western
traditions. The culmination of Sahlins's ethnohistorical research
on Hawaii, is a reaffirmation for understanding difference.
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