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• catalog abstract ""This collection of essays explores the ways in which islands have been used, imagined and theorised, both by island dwellers and continentals. This study considers how island dwellers of the Atlantic, Pacific and Indian Oceans conceived of themselves and their relations to proximate mainlands, and examines the particular fascination that islands have long held in the European imagination." "Early essays in the collection address the significance of islands in the Atlantic economy of the eighteenth century. The focus then shifts to the exploration of the Pacific, which presented Europe with new island-groups to explore, exploit, and imagine. Islands were often seen as natural colonies or settings for ideal communities, but they were also used as dumping grounds for the unwanted, a practice which has continued into the twentieth century and remains evident in recent policy towards refugees. The later essays look at the important role played by islands in the process of decolonisation and at island-oriented developments in postcolonial writing. The collection argues the need for an island-based theory within postcolonial studies and suggests how this might be constructed. Covering a historical span from the eighteenth to the twentieth century, the contributors include literary and postcolonial critics, historians and geographers."--Jacket.".
• catalog contributor b12903854.
• catalog contributor b12903855.
• catalog coverage "Islands of the Atlantic History.".
• catalog coverage "Islands of the Indian Ocean History.".
• catalog coverage "Islands of the Pacific History.".
• catalog created "2003.".
• catalog date "2003".
• catalog date "2003.".
• catalog dateCopyrighted "2003.".
• catalog description ""Early essays in the collection address the significance of islands in the Atlantic economy of the eighteenth century. The focus then shifts to the exploration of the Pacific, which presented Europe with new island-groups to explore, exploit, and imagine.".
• catalog description ""This collection of essays explores the ways in which islands have been used, imagined and theorised, both by island dwellers and continentals. This study considers how island dwellers of the Atlantic, Pacific and Indian Oceans conceived of themselves and their relations to proximate mainlands, and examines the particular fascination that islands have long held in the European imagination."".
• catalog description "1. Taking history offshore: Atlantic islands in European minds, 1400-1800 / John R. Gillis -- 2. Island bounds / Gillian Beer -- 3. 'The cane-land isles': commerce and empire in late eighteenth-century georgic and pastoral poetry / Markman Ellis -- 4. Bulama and Sierra Leone: utopian islands and visionary interiors / Deirdre Coleman.".
• catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. [207]-223)and index.".
• catalog description "Islands were often seen as natural colonies or settings for ideal communities, but they were also used as dumping grounds for the unwanted, a practice which has continued into the twentieth century and remains evident in recent policy towards refugees. The later essays look at the important role played by islands in the process of decolonisation and at island-oriented developments in postcolonial writing.".
• catalog description "The collection argues the need for an island-based theory within postcolonial studies and suggests how this might be constructed. Covering a historical span from the eighteenth to the twentieth century, the contributors include literary and postcolonial critics, historians and geographers."--Jacket.".
• catalog extent "xii, 234 p. :".
• catalog identifier "0415286662 (alk. paper)".
• catalog issued "2003".
• catalog issued "2003.".
• catalog language "eng".
• catalog publisher "New York : Routledge,".
• catalog spatial "Islands of the Atlantic History.".
• catalog spatial "Islands of the Indian Ocean History.".
• catalog spatial "Islands of the Pacific History.".
• catalog subject "909/.0942 21".
• catalog subject "Colonies History.".
• catalog subject "Decolonization History.".
• catalog subject "Islands History.".
• catalog subject "JV105 .I85 2003".
• catalog subject "Postcolonialism History.".
• catalog tableOfContents "1. Taking history offshore: Atlantic islands in European minds, 1400-1800 / John R. Gillis -- 2. Island bounds / Gillian Beer -- 3. 'The cane-land isles': commerce and empire in late eighteenth-century georgic and pastoral poetry / Markman Ellis -- 4. Bulama and Sierra Leone: utopian islands and visionary interiors / Deirdre Coleman.".
• catalog title "Islands in history and representation / edited by Rod Edmond and Vanessa Smith.".
• catalog type "History. fast".
• catalog type "text".