Nicholas Thomas (1) (1960–)
Auteur van Cook : The Extraordinary Voyages of Captain James Cook
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Nicholas Thomas has curated exhibitions in many countries and has been the Director of the Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology in Cambridge since 2006. His many books include Islanders: The Pacific in the Age of Empire (2012), which won the Wolfson History Prize.
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Werken van Nicholas Thomas
Tattoo: Bodies, Art, and Exchange in the Pacific and the West - History of Tatooing (2005) 24 exemplaren
Artefacts of Encounter: Cook's Voyages, Colonial Collecting and Museum Histories (2016) — Redacteur — 16 exemplaren
The Voyages of Captain James Cook: The Illustrated Accounts of Three Epic Voyages (2018) 7 exemplaren
Narratives of Nation in the South Pacific (Studies in Anthropology and History) (1997) — Redacteur — 5 exemplaren
Discoveries: Art, Science and Exploration from the University of Cambridge Museums (2014) — Auteur — 5 exemplaren
marquesan societies: inequality and political transformation in eastern polynesia (1990) 4 exemplaren
Cook's sites 2 exemplaren
George Nuku. Oceans. Collections. Reflections — Auteur — 1 exemplaar
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One of the Best Books of 2021 — Wall Street Journal
The islands of Polynesia, Melanesia, and Micronesia stretch across a huge expanse of ocean and encompass a multitude of different peoples. Starting with Captain James Cook, the earliest European explorers to visit the Pacific were astounded and perplexed to find populations thriving thousands of miles from continents. Who were these people? From where did they come? And how were they able to reach islands dispersed over such vast tracts of ocean?
In Voyagers, the distinguished anthropologist Nicholas Thomas charts the course of the seaborne migrations that populated the islands between Asia and the Americas from late prehistory onward. Drawing on the latest research, including insights gained from genetics, linguistics, and archaeology, Thomas provides a dazzling account of these long-distance migrations, the seagoing technologies that enabled them, and the societies they left in their wake.… (meer)