HIST 4820 - Pacific Histories: Encounter, Colonialism, Transformation

Meets with 6820. Examines the history and consequences of European and American colonialism in the Pacific region from the late 18th century to the present. Focuses on developments on the Pacific coasts of America, the Pacific Islands, Australia, and New Zealand. Topics include Polynesian/European discourses about the Pacific as the new "New World", missionaries and religious transformations, gender relations and the colonial process, cross-cultural trade, and European anthropology and Pacific peoples.