Books by Nicholas Thomas

A timely reexamination of European engagements with Indigenous art--and the presence of Indigenous art in the contemporary art world.

Over the last twenty years museums have proliferated, attracting new audiences and assuming new prominence in public life. The Return of Curiosity offers a fresh perspective on museums and what they may now be good for.

The latest title in Thames & Hudson's World of Art series surveys the extraordinary diversity and creativity of global body art, past and present.

Explores the lived experience of empire in the Pacific, the last region to be contacted and colonized by Europeans following the great voyages of Captain Cook. This title reveals that there was gain as well as loss, survival as well as suffering, and invention as well as exploitation.

A collection of essays that explores the historicisation of cultural encounters in the region referred to as Oceania. It describes how outsiders and islanders alike have constructed indigenous cultures over the last two hundred years.

Provides a window into the fantasies and realities of colonial life by presenting separate sets of letters by two late nineteenth-century British colonists addressed mostly to the colonists' mothers. This book includes commentary that explores colonial degeneration in the South Pacific.