The World and All the Things Upon it: Native Hawaiian Geographies of Exploration

ISBN-10
1452954410
ISBN-13
9781452954417
Category
Discoveries in geography
Language
English
Published
2016
Author
David A. Chang

Description

What if we saw indigenous people as the active agents of global exploration rather than as the passive objects of that exploration? What if, instead of conceiving of global exploration as an enterprise just of European men such as Columbus or Cook or Magellan, we thought of it as an enterprise of the people they discovered? 'The World and All the Things upon It' addresses these questions by tracing how the Kanaka Maoli explored the outside world and generated their own understandings of it in the century after James Cook's arrival in 1778.

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