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Dark Paradise
- Pacific Islands in the Nineteenth-Century British Imagination
Engelsk Hardback
Dark Paradise
- Pacific Islands in the Nineteenth-Century British Imagination
Engelsk Hardback

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The discovery of the Pacific islands amplified the qualities of mystery and exoticism already associated with ''foreign'' islands. Their ''savage'' peoples, their isolation, and their sheer beauty fascinated British visitors across the long nineteenth century. Dark Paradise argues that while the British originally believed the islands to be commercial paradises or perfect sites for missionary endeavours, as the century progressed, their optimistic vision transformed to portray darker realities. As a result, these islands act as a ''breaking point'' for British theories of imperialism, colonialism, and identity. The book traces the changing British attitudes towards imperial settlement as the early view of ''island as paradise'' gives way to a fear of the hostile islanders and examines how this revelation undermined a key tenent of British imperialism - that they were the ''superior'' or ''civilized'' islanders.
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Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
256
ISBN-13:
9781474413848
Indbinding:
Hardback
Udgave:
ISBN-10:
1474413846
Udg. Dato:
30 jun 2016
Længde:
17mm
Bredde:
241mm
Højde:
164mm
Forlag:
Edinburgh University Press
Oplagsdato:
30 jun 2016
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