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Book The Coral Lands of the Pacific

Download or read book The Coral Lands of the Pacific written by H. Stonehewer Cooper and published by . This book was released on 1882 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Coral and Concrete

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  • Author : Greg Dvorak
  • Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
  • Release : 2018-11-30
  • ISBN : 0824855213
  • Pages : 353 pages

Download or read book Coral and Concrete written by Greg Dvorak and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 2018-11-30 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Coral and Concrete, Greg Dvorak’s cross-cultural history of Kwajalein Atoll, Marshall Islands, explores intersections of environment, identity, empire, and memory in the largest inhabited coral atoll on earth. Approaching the multiple “atollscapes” of Kwajalein’s past and present as Marshallese ancestral land, Japanese colonial outpost, Pacific War battlefield, American weapons-testing base, and an enduring home for many, Dvorak delves into personal narratives and collective mythologies from contradictory vantage points. He navigates the tensions between “little stories” of ordinary human actors and “big stories” of global politics—drawing upon the “little” metaphor of the coral organisms that colonize and build atolls, and the “big” metaphor of the all-encompassing concrete that buries and co-opts the past. Building upon the growing body of literature about militarism and decolonization in Oceania, this book advocates a layered, nuanced approach that emphasizes the multiplicity and contradictions of Pacific Islands histories as an antidote to American hegemony and globalization within and beyond the region. It also brings Japanese, Korean, Okinawan, and American perspectives into conversation with Micronesians’ recollections of colonialism and war. This transnational history—built upon a combination of reflective personal narrative, ethnography, cultural studies, and postcolonial studies—thus resituates Kwajalein Atoll as a pivotal site where Islanders have not only thrived for thousands of years, but also mediated between East and West, shaping crucial world events. Based on multi-sited ethnographic and archival research, as well as Dvorak’s own experiences growing up between Kwajalein, the United States, and Japan, Coral and Concrete integrates narrative and imagery with semiotic analysis of photographs, maps, films, and music, traversing colonial tropical fantasies, tales of victory and defeat, missile testing, fisheries, war-bereavement rituals, and landowner resistance movements, from the twentieth century through the present day. Representing history as a perennial struggle between coral and concrete, the book offers an Oceanian paradigm for decolonization, resistance, solidarity, and optimism that should appeal to all readers far beyond the Marshall Islands.

Book Corals and Coral Islands

Download or read book Corals and Coral Islands written by James Dwight Dana and published by . This book was released on 1890 with total page 474 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Corals and Coral Islands

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  • Author : James D. Dana
  • Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
  • Release : 2023-06-14
  • ISBN : 3382812614
  • Pages : 410 pages

Download or read book Corals and Coral Islands written by James D. Dana and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2023-06-14 with total page 410 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1872. The publishing house Anatiposi publishes historical books as reprints. Due to their age, these books may have missing pages or inferior quality. Our aim is to preserve these books and make them available to the public so that they do not get lost.

Book On Coral Reefs and Islands

Download or read book On Coral Reefs and Islands written by James Dwight Dana and published by . This book was released on 1853 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book How Sammy Went to Coral Land

Download or read book How Sammy Went to Coral Land written by Emily Paret Atwater and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-09-05 with total page 66 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "How Sammy Went to Coral-Land" by Emily Paret Atwater. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.

Book Coral Lands

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  • Author : H. Stonehewer Cooper
  • Publisher : London : R. Bentley
  • Release : 1880
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 386 pages

Download or read book Coral Lands written by H. Stonehewer Cooper and published by London : R. Bentley. This book was released on 1880 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Gems from the coral islands

Download or read book Gems from the coral islands written by William Gill and published by . This book was released on 1856 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Coral Island

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  • Author : Robert Michael Ballantyne
  • Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
  • Release : 2023-05-03
  • ISBN : 3382325098
  • Pages : 358 pages

Download or read book The Coral Island written by Robert Michael Ballantyne and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2023-05-03 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1859. The publishing house Anatiposi publishes historical books as reprints. Due to their age, these books may have missing pages or inferior quality. Our aim is to preserve these books and make them available to the public so that they do not get lost.

Book Coral Lands  Volume 1

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  • Author : H Stonehewer Cooper
  • Publisher : Legare Street Press
  • Release : 2023-07-18
  • ISBN : 9781021084293
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book Coral Lands Volume 1 written by H Stonehewer Cooper and published by Legare Street Press. This book was released on 2023-07-18 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cooper's travelogue takes readers on a journey to the mysterious Coral Lands, named for the vibrant and diverse coral reefs that surround them. Readers will encounter exotic animals, breathtaking landscapes, and fascinating people as they accompany Cooper on his explorations. This is a must-read for anyone interested in travel and adventure writing. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Book Corals and Coral Islands  With Illustrations and Maps

Download or read book Corals and Coral Islands With Illustrations and Maps written by James Dwight Dana and published by . This book was released on 1875 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Corals and Coral Islands

Download or read book Corals and Coral Islands written by James Dwight Dana and published by . This book was released on 1872 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Coral Reefs of the USA

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  • Author : Bernhard M. Riegl
  • Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
  • Release : 2008-03-21
  • ISBN : 1402068476
  • Pages : 811 pages

Download or read book Coral Reefs of the USA written by Bernhard M. Riegl and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2008-03-21 with total page 811 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Coral Reefs of the USA provides a complete overview of the present status of knowledge regarding all coral reef areas within the USA and its territories. It is written by the most experienced authorities in their fields and geographic areas. Stretching from the Caribbean to the western Pacific, the coral reefs of the USA span extensive geographic and biotic diversity, occur in a wide variety of geomorphological settings, and provide a representative cross-section of Holocene reef-building. This book will therefore be of broad general interest. For the first time, complete scholarly reviews are given for the geology, geomorphology and the biology of reefs encompassing a vast area stretching from the Mariana Islands in the west, Samoa in the south, Hawaii in the north and the Virgin Islands in the east. This book is not a status report, but will provide up-to-date information about stressors and the biotic responses of the reefs, as well as the geological explanations why these reefs exist in the first place. It will be an invaluable baseline-reference for all those who are engaged in research or management of these coral reefs or to those who simply enjoy being well-informed about one of the most iconic ecosystems of the USA.

Book Victorian Coral Islands of Empire  Mission  and the Boys    Adventure Novel

Download or read book Victorian Coral Islands of Empire Mission and the Boys Adventure Novel written by Michelle Elleray and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-11-06 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Attending to the mid-Victorian boys’ adventure novel and its connections with missionary culture, Michelle Elleray investigates how empire was conveyed to Victorian children in popular forms, with a focus on the South Pacific as a key location of adventure tales and missionary efforts. The volume draws on an evangelical narrative about the formation of coral islands to demonstrate that missionary investments in the socially marginal (the young, the working class, the racial other) generated new forms of agency that are legible in the mid-Victorian boys’ adventure novel, even as that agency was subordinated to Christian values identified with the British middle class. Situating novels by Frederick Marryat, R. M. Ballantyne and W. H. G. Kingston in the periodical culture of the missionary enterprise, this volume newly historicizes British children’s textual interactions with the South Pacific and its peoples. Although the mid-Victorian authors examined here portray British presence in imperial spaces as a moral imperative, our understanding of the "adventurer" is transformed from the plucky explorer to the cynical mercenary through Robert Louis Stevenson, who provides a late-nineteenth-century critique of the imperial and missionary assumptions that subtended the mid-Victorian boys’ adventure novel of his youth.

Book Geological Observations on Coral Reefs  Volcanic Islands and on South America

Download or read book Geological Observations on Coral Reefs Volcanic Islands and on South America written by Charles Robert Darwin and published by . This book was released on 1851 with total page 768 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: