Abstract:Rod Edmond and Vanessa Smith Introduction 1. John R. Gillis Taking History Offshore: Islands and Continents in the Eighteenth Century Atlantic World 2. Gillian Beer Island Bounds 3. Markman Ellis 'The...Rod Edmond and Vanessa Smith Introduction 1. John R. Gillis Taking History Offshore: Islands and Continents in the Eighteenth Century Atlantic World 2. Gillian Beer Island Bounds 3. Markman Ellis 'The Cane-Land Isles': Commerce and Empire in Late Eighteenth Century Georgic and Pastoral Poetry 4. Deirdre Coleman Bulama and Sierra Leone: Utopian Islands and Visionary Interiors 5. Vanessa Agnew Pacific Island Encounters and the German Invention of Race 6. Harriet Guest Cook in Tonga: Terms of Trade 7. Vanessa Smith Pitcairn's 'Guilty Stock': The Island as Breeding Ground 8. Rod Edmond Islands of Disease: Colonialism and Leprosy 9. Roger Moss Derek Walcott's Omeros: Representing St. Lucia, Re-presenting Homer 10. Francoise Verges The Island of Wandering Souls: Processes of Creolization, Politics of Emancipation and the Problematic of Absence on Reunion Island 11. Klaus Dodds God Save the Falklands: Postcolonial Geographies of the Falklands/Malvinas 12. Elizabeth McMahon The Gilded Cage: From Utopia to Monad in Australia's Island Imaginary Greg Dening AfterwordRead More
Publication Year: 2020
Publication Date: 2020-10-08
Language: en
Type: book
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