Naming Oceania: geography, raciology and local knowledge in the 'fifth part of the world', 1511-1920

我们区域空间和种族联姻的历史使澳大利亚恢复到区域历史，更大的大洋洲恢复到全球历史。它提供了一个扎根的基础，以理解地区、国家和地方的名称和身份在400年来是如何在欧洲探索、帝国主义、殖民主义、种族科学的出现以及日益激烈的面对面接触的背景下发生变化的。通过揭示过去土著和外国命名系统的痕迹，这项研究将表明，国家、地方和人民的现有名称和边界是如何构建的，而不是永恒的真理。它将揭示澳大利亚现代地区干预、睦邻关系和种族或民族差异概念的先例。

A history of the marriage of space and race in our region restores Australia to regional histories and wider Oceania to global histories. It offers a grounded basis to grasp how regional, national and local nomenclatures and identities mutated over 400 years, in contexts of European exploration, imperialism, colonisation, emergence of the science of race and intensifying face-to-face encounters. By uncovering traces of past naming systems, Indigenous and foreign, the research will show how present names and boundaries of states, places and people are constructs rather than eternal truths. It will cast light on the antecedents to modern Australian regional interventions, neighbourly relations and conceptions of racial or ethnic differences.