Product Description: Prelude to Empire is more than a biography. It tells the story of William Pritchard, who was born in Tahiti of missionary parents in 1829, who was given extraordinary power by Fijian chiefs, who changed Fijian history, and who was tried and dismissed by a British government in a gross miscarriage of justice...read more

Product Description: This innovative reader takes a content-based and global approach to writing-across-the-curriculum. Recognizing that composition courses are the natural place in the college curriculum for the disciplines to meet, THINKING GLOBALLY offers students a variety of exciting opportunities to read and write about substantial and challenging essays from a wide range of disciplines...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)