{"product_id":"towards-a-new-pacific-historiography-anurag-subramani-9783639249057","title":"Towards a New Pacific Historiography","description":"Towards a New Pacific Historiography argues for a re-imagining of Pacific History using the idea of cultural theorist Hayden White that the historical text is a literary artefact. The book discusses the institutionalisation of Pacific History largely through the efforts of J. W. Davison. It also engages in a scrutiny of several Pacific History texts, evaluating the merits and demerits of these texts as literary artefacts. The book contends that the Western academic discipline of History has created a privileged space for itself by marginalising other forms of historical knowledge and that many Pacific historians continue to use sources and methodologies that are of European origin, and profess a world-view that is blatantly Western. The consequence of all this is that Pacific historiography has become a methodologically and stylistically reactionary discipline. The author suggests that only the re-imagining of Pacific History will allow the discipline to make a worthwhile contribution to new Pacific epistemologies; the program to re- imagine 'History' could come from the way postcolonial theorists and creative authors have transformed English Literature and the English language.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Anurag Subramani\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 3639249054\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9783639249057\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e VDM Verlag\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/28\/2010\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 168\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.56lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.39d","brand":"Anurag Subramani","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44073645310207,"sku":"9783639249057","price":73.44,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_f18d40da-9379-4ca9-b518-39a26bfcf857.jpg?v=1685449052","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/towards-a-new-pacific-historiography-anurag-subramani-9783639249057","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}