Seth Archer (Utah State University)

Sharks upon the Land

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book is for readers interested in Indigenous responses to European and American colonialism. The study illuminates Hawaiian cultural change - in Native religion, medicine, and gender - amid the incursion of Western diseases and their side effects, including infertility, infant mortality, and chronic ill health.

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Produktdetails

• Studies in North American Indian History
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 302
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Januar 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 456g
• ISBN-13: 9781316626603
• ISBN-10: 1316626601
• Artikelnr.: 58602554

Autorenporträt

Seth Archer is Assistant Professor of History at Utah State University. From 2015 to 2017 he was the Mellon Research Fellow in American History at the University of Cambridge.

Inhaltsangabe

List of figures
List of tables and appendices
Acknowledgments
Note 1: language and terminology
Introduction
Part I. Encounters: 1. Pox Hawaiiana
2. Sex and conquest
Part II. Revolutions: 3. The dark ocean
4. Throwing away the Gods
Part III. Accommodations: 5. Great fatalism
6. The wasting hand
Conclusion
Appendix A: terms for venereal disease
Appendix B: population
Appendix C: glossary
Appendix D: selected persons
Bibliography
Index.