By Kate Darian-Smith,Penelope Edmonds

Spanning the past due 18th century to the current, this quantity explores new instructions in imperial and postcolonial histories of conciliation, functionality, and clash among eu colonizers and Indigenous peoples in Australia and the Pacific Rim, together with Aotearoa New Zealand, Hawaii and the Northwest Pacific Coast. It examines cultural "rituals" and gadgets; the re-enactments of varied occasions and encounters of trade, conciliation and international relations that happened on colonial frontiers among non-Indigenous and Indigenous peoples; commemorations of ancient occasions; and the way the histories of colonial clash and conciliation are politicized in nation-building and nationwide identities.

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