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Title: Islands of the world and the European touch
Authors: Baldacchino, Godfrey
Keywords: Islands -- European influence
Islands -- Social life and customs
Colonies -- Economic conditions
Colonies -- History -- 20th century
Commonwealth countries -- Civilization
Issue Date: 2015
Publisher: University of Malta. Island and Small States Institute
Citation: Baldacchino, G. (2015). Islands of the world and the European touch. Occasional Papers on Islands and Small States, 03/2015, 1-9
Abstract: The notion of a European landscape goes beyond the geo-physical and architectural to encompass also the institutional and socio-cultural. The „European touch‟ includes building codes, languages, educational systems, legal systems, religions, customs, even street furniture and highway codes. Islands have performed the role of prototype “contact zones” by design or default, serving as tentative and experimental spaces of contact and stepping stones between different organisms – flora, fauna, human - in a colonial situation, before they traipsed onto mainlands. They have done so also for the motley manifestations of the European touch. Only the insular Pacific, which was the last major region to experience the European contact, has escaped this ubiquity.
URI: https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar//handle/123456789/16561
ISSN: 1024-6282
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