商品簡介
Reproduced from publication mostly in the 1980s and 1990s but ranging from 1958 to 2001, 19 essays explore the French presence in the Pacific world during three centuries and how the nature of that presence at any particular time and place was determined by local resources and peoples, and by conditions in Europe, principally the rivalries between France and England. Within sections on overviews and European rivalries, exchanges and migration, colonial societies, and changing representations of Asian civilizations and Pacific island peoples, they consider such topics as French policy in the Pacific from 1853 to 1906, the establishment of the French Chamber of Commerce in Sydney, engendering French colonial history in Indochina, and love and history in France's Japan. Annotation c2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
