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Preserving the self in the south seas, 1680-1840
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Preserving the self in the south seas, 1680-1840 / Jonathan Lamb.
ISBN
0226468488
0226468496 (pbk)
Published
Chicago : University of Chicago Press, c2001.
Physical Description
xii, 345 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
June 01, 2002
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (p. [309]-335) and index.
Contents
Introduction
Political theories of the self
The romance of navigation
Science and collecting
Scurvy
The Polynesian person and the spread of leprosy
Void contracts and subtle islands
Patriots in paradise
Starlings and parrots; Keate and sympathy
The settlement of New Zealand.
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