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The authors have brought together a collection of works from
specialists in Pacific History from across Australia and throughout
the Pacific. The individual contributions were specifically written
to meet the needs of senior history courses in Australia. Max
Quanchi and Ron Adams are well-known educationists who have
specialised in the pacific. They have extensively travelled and
studied in the Pacific and have spent many years teaching history
to secondary and fertiary students. The result is an authoritative
text for all senior History and Australian Studies students who
need to understand the Pacific region.
The South Seas, as this region used to be called, conjured up
images of adventure, belles and savages, romance and fabulous
fortunes, but the long voyages of discovery and exploration of the
vast Pacific Ocean were really an exercise in amazing logistics,
navigation, hard grit, shipwreck and pure luck. The motivations
were scientific and geographic, but at the same time nationalistic
and materialistic. A series on global exploration and discovery
would not be complete without this book by Quanchi and Robson. It
is ambitious and informative and includes the familiar names of
Laperouse, Bougainville, Cook, and Dampier, as well as the
intriguing stories of the Bounty Mutiny, scurvy, and the mysterious
Northwest Passage, Terra Australis Ignotia, and Davis Land. There
are entries on first contacts, ships, navigational instruments,
mapping, and botany. The scene is carefully set in the
introduction, the chronology spans several centuries, and the
extensive bibliography offers a guide to further reading. There are
more than just dry facts in this book. It has a whiff of salt air,
the clash of empires, cross-cultural beach encounters, and personal
adventure.
Photographing Papua is a study of photography in the public domain
in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. It argues
that southeastern New Guinea, known as British New Guinea and then
as Papua when it became an Australian colony, was created as a
geographical place through visual representation in illustrated
magazines and newspapers, lavishly illustrated travelogues and
mission hagiography, serial encyclopedia, lantern slides and
postcards. Readers :knew" Papua because many thousands of black and
white photographs of Papuans, villages and material culture rapidly
swamped the reading public once the process of halftone, newsprint
reproduction became possible. In an innovative and breakthrough
fashion Photographing Papua switches attention from a few well
known prints in museums and archives, in some cases repeatedly
reproduced, but mostly rarely seen outside of scientific and
scholarly circles. It deals instead with thousands of photographs,
often used in ways not intended when the photograph was taken, but
which editors and publishers (and subsequent photographers)
gradually made conform to an iconographic imperative, a sort of
abbreviated visual gallery of "natives" and a quick-access pathway
to the actual and imagined lives of Papuans in the "last Unknown"
as New Guinea was titled. It is a study of representation,
colonialism, cross-cultural encounters and the early world of
illustrated media and photo-journalism.
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