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Facing the Pacific : Polynesia and the U.S. imperial imagination / Jeffrey Geiger.

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LIBRA DU30 .G45 2007
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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Geiger, Jeffrey.
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Relations.
Oceania--Relations--United States.
Oceania.
United States--Relations--Oceania.
United States.
Imperialism--History--20th century.
Imperialism.
History.
Oceania--Foreign public opinion, American.
Public opinion--United States--History--20th century.
Public opinion.
Popular culture--United States--History--20th century.
Popular culture.
Oceania--In literature.
Imperialism in literature.
Oceania--In motion pictures.
Imperialism in motion pictures.
Oceania Region.
Physical Description:
viii, 303 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Place of Publication:
Honolulu : University of Hawaiʻi Press, [2007]
Contents:
The garden and the wilderness : tropes of order and disorder
Idylls and ruins : Frederick O'Brien in the Marquesas
Searching for Moana : Frances Hubbard and Robert J. Flaherty in Samoa
The front and back of paradise : W.S. Van Dyke and MGM in Tahiti
The homoerotic exotic : from C.W. Stoddard to Tabu.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 273-296) and index.
ISBN:
9780824830663
0824830660
OCLC:
79001855

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