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Book A Catalogue of Dictionaries and Grammars

Download or read book A Catalogue of Dictionaries and Grammars written by Anonymous and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2023-02-04 with total page 94 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original.

Book A Power in the World

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  • Author : Lorenz Gonschor
  • Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
  • Release : 2019-06-30
  • ISBN : 0824880188
  • Pages : 257 pages

Download or read book A Power in the World written by Lorenz Gonschor and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 2019-06-30 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Few people today know that in the nineteenth century, Hawai‘i was not only an internationally recognized independent nation but played a crucial role in the entire Pacific region and left an important legacy throughout Oceania. As the first non-Western state to gain full recognition as a coequal of the Western powers, yet at the same time grounded in indigenous tradition and identity, the Hawaiian Kingdom occupied a unique position in the late nineteenth-century world order. From this position, Hawai‘i’s leaders were able to promote the building of independent states based on their country’s model throughout the Pacific, envisioning the region to become politically unified. Such a pan-Oceanian polity would be able to withstand foreign colonialism and become, in the words of one of the idea’s pioneers, “a Power in the World.” After being developed over three decades among both native and non-native intellectuals close to the Hawaiian court, King Kalākaua’s government started implementing this vision in 1887 by concluding a treaty of confederation with Sāmoa, a first step toward a larger Hawaiian-led pan-Oceanian federation. Political unrest and Western imperialist interference in both Hawai‘i and Sāmoa prevented the project from advancing further at the time, and a long interlude of colonialism and occupation has obscured its legacy for over a century. Nonetheless it remains an inspiring historical precedent for movements toward greater political and economic integration in the Pacific Islands region today. Lorenz Gonschor examines two intertwined historical processes: The development of a Hawai‘i-based pan-Oceanian policy and underlying ideology, which in turn provided the rationale for the second process, the spread of the Hawaiian Kingdom’s constitutional model to other Pacific archipelagos. He argues that the legacy of this visionary policy is today re-emerging in the form of two interconnected movements—namely a growing movement in Hawai‘i to reclaim its legacy as Oceania’s historically leading nation-state on one hand, and an increasingly assertive Oceanian regionalism emanating mainly from Fiji and other postcolonial states in the Southwestern Pacific on the other. As a historical reference for both, nineteenth-century Hawaiian policy serves as an inspiration and guideline for envisioning de-colonial futures for the Pacific region.

Book Anglo Saxon and Old English Vocabularies  Vocabularies

Download or read book Anglo Saxon and Old English Vocabularies Vocabularies written by Thomas Wright and published by . This book was released on 1884 with total page 546 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book A Practical Grammar of Portuguese and English  exhibiting in a series of exercises in double translation  the idiomatic structure of both languages     adapted to Ollendorf s system  By     Alex  J  D  D Orsey     assisted by     Marcelliano R  de Mendonca

Download or read book A Practical Grammar of Portuguese and English exhibiting in a series of exercises in double translation the idiomatic structure of both languages adapted to Ollendorf s system By Alex J D D Orsey assisted by Marcelliano R de Mendonca written by Alexander James Donald D'ORSEY and published by . This book was released on 1868 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Catalogue   With  Suppl  catalogue

Download or read book Catalogue With Suppl catalogue written by New Zealand gen. assembly, libr and published by . This book was released on 1885 with total page 498 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Voices of Eden

Download or read book The Voices of Eden written by Albert J. Schütz and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 1995-01-01 with total page 540 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How did outsiders first become aware of the Hawaiian language? How were they and Hawaiians able to understand each other? How was Hawaiian recorded and analyzed in the early decades after European contact Albert J. Schutz provides illuminating answers to these and other questions about Hawaii's postcontact linguistic past. The result is a highly readable and accessible account of Hawaiian history from a language-centered point of view. The author also provides readers with an exhaustive analysis and critique of nearly every work ever written about Hawaiian.

Book A Madagascar Bibliography

Download or read book A Madagascar Bibliography written by James Sibree and published by . This book was released on 1885 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Journal of the American Geographical Society of New York

Download or read book Journal of the American Geographical Society of New York written by American Geographical Society of New York and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 898 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Bulletin of the American Geographical Society

Download or read book Bulletin of the American Geographical Society written by American Geographical Society of New York and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 944 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Hawai   i   s Russian Adventure

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  • Author : Peter R. Mills
  • Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
  • Release : 2002-02-28
  • ISBN : 0824842332
  • Pages : 310 pages

Download or read book Hawai i s Russian Adventure written by Peter R. Mills and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 2002-02-28 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the early 1800s thousands of American and European traders arrived in Hawai‘i to lay in supplies for the long trip east or to take on Hawaiian sandalwood, which commanded a high price in China. In response to this developing global economy in the Pacific, Russia expanded its trading outposts as far as western Kaua‘i and together with Kaua‘i chiefs began planning the construction of Fort Elisabeth in Waimea in 1816. A year later, the structure was abandoned by the Russians, but, as Peter Mills argues convincingly, a long and significant history of the fort remains to be told, even after its Russian one had ended. Seeking to redress the imbalance that exists between the colonized and the colonizers in Pacific historiography, Mills examines the fort and its place in the history of Kaua‘i under paramount chief Kaumuali‘i and in relation to the expanding kingdom of Kamehameha and his successors. His work exposes how Hawaiians have been ignored in their own history and challenges commonly held assumptions such as Kamehameha’s unification of the Islands in 1810 and the victimization of Kaumuali‘i by representatives of the Russian-American Company. Using hundreds of firsthand accounts in combination with field archaeology, Mills shows that the fort was originally built and used by Hawaiians as a heiau (ritual temple). After the Russians’ departure, Hawaiians continued to use the fort but in ways that reflected an ongoing transformation of cultural values provoked by contact with outsiders and the development of multiethnic communities in Waimea and other port settlements throughout the Hawaiian chain. Hawai‘i’s Russian Adventure is an original look at a significant chapter in the history of Hawai‘i. It overturns many popular myths and perceptions about the fort at Waimea and about European and Hawaiian interaction in the first half of the nineteenth century while delving into some of the central issues in historical anthropology, colonialism, and the development of global networks.

Book Tr  bner s American and Oriental literary record

Download or read book Tr bner s American and Oriental literary record written by Trübner and Co and published by . This book was released on 1865 with total page 430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Tr  bner s American and Oriental Literary Record

Download or read book Tr bner s American and Oriental Literary Record written by and published by . This book was released on 1865 with total page 860 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Imagining AI

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  • Author : Stephen Cave
  • Publisher : Oxford University Press
  • Release : 2023-05-03
  • ISBN : 0192688936
  • Pages : 449 pages

Download or read book Imagining AI written by Stephen Cave and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2023-05-03 with total page 449 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chapters 16 and 19 from this book are published open access and are free to read or download from Oxford Academic AI is now a global phenomenon. Yet Hollywood narratives dominate perceptions of AI in the English-speaking West and beyond, and much of the technology itself is shaped by a disproportionately white, male, US-based elite. However, different cultures have been imagining intelligent machines since long before we could build them, in visions that vary greatly across religious, philosophical, literary and cinematic traditions. This book aims to spotlight these alternative visions. Imagining AI draws attention to the range and variety of visions of a future with intelligent machines and their potential significance for the research, regulation, and implementation of AI. The book is structured geographically, with each chapter presenting insights into how a specific region or culture imagines intelligent machines. The contributors, leading experts from academia and the arts, explore how the encounters between local narratives, digital technologies, and mainstream Western narratives create new imaginaries and insights in different contexts across the globe. The narratives they analyse range from ancient philosophy to contemporary science fiction, and visual art to policy discourse. The book sheds new light on some of the most important themes in AI ethics, from the differences between Chinese and American visions of AI, to digital neo-colonialism. It is an essential work for anyone wishing to understand how different cultural contexts interplay with the most significant technology of our time.

Book A Comparative Grammar of the Gaudian Languages with Special Reference to the Eastern Hindi

Download or read book A Comparative Grammar of the Gaudian Languages with Special Reference to the Eastern Hindi written by August F. Rudolf Hoernle and published by . This book was released on 1880 with total page 566 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Tr  bner s Bibliographical Catalogues

Download or read book Tr bner s Bibliographical Catalogues written by Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 1236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: