The World and All the Things Upon It by David A. Chang - 9780816699421

The World and All the Things Upon ItNative Hawaiian Geographies of Exploration\nAuthor(s): David A. Chang\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: University of Minnesota Press, United States\nImprint: University of Minnesota Press\nISBN-13: 9780816699421, 978-0816699421\nSynopsis\nWinner of the Modern Language Associations Prize for Studies in Native American Literatures, Cultures, and Languages\n Winner of theAmerican Historical Associations Albert J. Beveridge Award\n Winner ofNAISA's Best Subsequent Book Award\n Winner of theWestern History Association's John C. Ewers Award\n Finalist for theJohn Hope Franklin Prize\n\n What if we saw indigenous people as the active agents of global exploration rather than as the passive objects of that exploration? What if, instead of conceiving of global exploration as an enterprise just of European men such as Columbus or Cook or Magellan, we thought of it as an enterprise of the people they discovered? What could such a new perspective reveal about geo.