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Science, Voyages, and Encounters in Oceania, 1511-1850 (Hardcover)
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Science, Voyages, and Encounters in Oceania, 1511-1850 (Hardcover)
Series: Palgrave Studies in Pacific History
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Spanning four centuries and vast space, this book combines the
global history of ideas with particular histories of encounters
between European voyagers and Indigenous people in Oceania (Island
Southeast Asia, New Guinea, Australia, New Zealand, and the Pacific
Islands). Douglas shows how prevailing concepts of human
difference, or race, influenced travellers' approaches to
encounters. Yet their presuppositions were often challenged or
transformed by the appearance, conduct, and lifestyle of local
inhabitants. The book's original theory and method reveal traces of
Indigenous agency in voyagers' representations which in turn
provided key evidence for the natural history of man and the
science of race. In keeping with recent trends in colonial
historiography, Douglas diverts historical attention from imperial
centres to so-called peripheries, discredits the outmoded
stereotype that Europeans necessarily dominated non-Europeans, and
takes local agency seriously.
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