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Historical archaeology of early modern colonialism in Asia-Pacific. Volume I. The Southwest Pacific and Oceanian regions /

For decades, global colonialism and capitalist expansion has been viewed and interpreted as a purely Eurocentric phenomenon beginning in the sixteenth century with the age of exploration. Recent research has pulled the focus from Europe toward China as the first agent of global expansion. This colle...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Cruz Berrocal, María (Editor ), Zang, Zhenhua (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Gainesville : University Press of Florida, 2017.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Understanding early modern colonialism in Asia and the Pacific / María Cruz Berrocal and Cheng-Hwa Tsang
  • Historiographical absences and archaeological consequences: the early modern European journeys in the Pacific / María Cruz Berrocal
  • The abandonment of Alofi Island (Western Polynesia) before missionary times: a consequence of early European contact? / Christophe Sand
  • When "early" modern colonialism comes late: historical archaeology in Vanuatu / James L. Flexner and Matthew Spriggs
  • From first encounters to sustained engagement and alienation: European and ni-vanuatu contact from 1774 To 1915, Port Sandwich, Malakula, Vanuatu, Southwest Pacific / Stuart Bedford, Marcellin Abong, Richard Shing and Frederique Valentin
  • "Great powers" in the Pacific Islands: a calibrated comparison of Spanish and Anglo-American colonialism / James M. Bayman
  • Spain in the Mariana Islands, 1521-1898 / Frank J. Quimby
  • The archaeological remains of early modern Spanish colonialism on Guam and their implications / Boyd Dixon, Andrea Jalandoni and Cacilie Craft
  • Jesuit missionary work in the Mariana Islands (1668-1769) / Alexandre Coello de la Rosa
  • Island Taiwan in the seventeenth century: an historiographical overview / Ann Heylen
  • Encountering the wider world before the transition to history: Chinese ceramics in proto-historic Taiwan
  • (tenth-sixteenth centuries) / Liu Yi-Chang and Wang Su-chin.