"This territory was not empty": Pacific possibilities

Geographical Review

Volumn 97, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 230-243

  Matsuda, Matt K ^a  

^a RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Boundaries; Colonialism; Community; Emptiness; Islands; Memory; Navigation; Pacific Ocean; Performance; Possession; Seascape

Indexed keywords

COLONIALISM; CULTURAL HISTORY; HISTORICAL GEOGRAPHY; ISLAND STATE; LITERATURE REVIEW; TERRITORY;

PACIFIC ISLANDS; PACIFIC OCEAN;

EID: 35448960487     PISSN: 00167428     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1931-0846.2007.tb00400.x     Document Type: Article

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