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Before the era of missionaries and settlement, before the erotic and exotic imaginary of Stevenson and Gauguin, there were the fantasies and wild expectations of South Seas utopias and savage paradises. In Gothic and the Pacific Voyage, Stephanie Smith-Browne shows how British and European travellers to the South Seas and the Antarctic were styled as Gothic chivalric knights and the lands they sought as the last possible places on earth to find paradise. Smith-Browne examines what the emblematic European Goth was doing in the South Seas in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. She argues that Gothic tales, iconography and states of mind were not marginal but integral to early Pacific travel narratives: real travels, fantastic voyages and fictions set in both the actual and the mythic lands of the South Seas. This book explores the anthropological, historical and maritime narratives of the first Europeans to make extended contact with Pacific islanders (Wallis, Bougainville, Commerson, Cook, Sparrman, Johann and George Forster), the savage utopian fiction of Hildebrand Bowman, and the newly rediscovered, long-lost South Seas novel of Victorian Gothicist Wilkie Collins, Iolani. ... Read more

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Full-color resource with hundreds of activities for math, language, science, movement, games, and more. Quick and easy ideas using materials you already have on hand in your classroom. Great for substitutes and assistants. ... Read more

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Terror and History brings together historians and leading scholars from around the world to examine, document, and reflect on the political and historical category of terror. Breaking with the traditional format of academic journals, the issue delivers short, sharp pieces of political and personal analysis rather than footnoted, monographic articles. Ranging from Guatemala to Palestine, interrogating notions of homeland, and unpacking the myths of the Irish Republican Army, the Red Army Faction, and Sendero Luminoso, the contributors to Terror and History revise our notions of terror and terrorism. The issue also includes a critique of the new war movies like Saving Private Ryan, Pearl Harbor, and Black Hawk Down. In an interview, Mike Davis discusses his book-in-progress Heroes from Hell, delving into the revolutionary terror that gripped most of Europe after the French Revolution.

Contributors. Joel Beinin, Lisa Brock, Horace Campbell, Duane J. Corpis, Belinda Davis, Allen Feldman, Ian Christopher Fletcher, Van Gosse, Joy James, J. Angus Johnston, Amy Kaplan, Thomas Miller Klubock, R. J. Lambrose, Jesse Lemisch, Deborah Levenson, Walter Benn Michaels, Donnacha Ó Beacháin, Deborah Poole, Vijay Prashad, David Prochaska, Gerardo Rénique, Cedric J. Robinson, Nikhil Pal Singh, Stephanie J. Smith, Akinyele O. Umoja, Verónica Valdivia Ortiz de Zárate, Jon Wiener, Marilyn B. Young, Joseba Zulaika
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