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Aid Activities in Europe and Oceania provides detailed information on individual commitments, i.e. intended disbursements, of foreign aid to European and Oceanian countries for the year 2003. This yearly publication records the commitments reported by countries represented in the OECD Development Assistance Committee (DAC) and by multilateral institutions to the CRS Aid Activity database (Creditor Reporting System). For each commitment listed, data are provided on the recipient country, the donor country, the type of aid, the amount committed in US dollars, the purpose description and code, t

Economic assistance --- Europe --- Oceania --- Foreign economic relations --- Economic aid --- Foreign aid program --- Foreign assistance --- Grants-in-aid, International --- International economic assistance --- International grants-in-aid --- Economic policy --- International economic relations --- Conditionality (International relations) --- Oceanica --- South Pacific --- South Pacific Ocean Region --- South Pacific Region --- South Sea Islands --- South Seas --- Southwest Pacific Region --- Islands of the Pacific --- Council of Europe countries --- Eastern Hemisphere --- Eurasia --- Moana Nui, Te --- Moana Oceania --- Te Moana Nui

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Producing the Pacific offers the reader an interdisciplinary reading of the maps, narratives and rituals related to the three Spanish voyages to the South Pacific that took place between 1567 and 1606. These journeys were led by Álvaro de Mendaña, Pedro Fernández de Quirós and Isabel Barreto, the first woman ever to become admiral of and command a fleet. Mercedes Maroto Camino presents a cultural analysis of these journeys and takes issue with some established notions about the value of the past and the way it is always rewritten from the perspective of the present. She highlights the social, political and cultural environment in which maps and narratives circulate, suggesting that their significance is always subject to negotiation and transformation. The tapestry created by the interpretation of maps, narratives and rituals affords a view not only of the minds of the first men and women who traversed the Pacific but also of how they saw the ocean, its islands and their peoples. Producing the Pacific should, therefore, be of relevance to those interested in history, voyages, colonialism, cartography, anthropology and cultural studies. The study of these cultural products contributes to an interpretive history of colonialism at the same time that it challenges the beliefs and assumptions that underscore our understanding of that history.

Mendaña de Neira, Alvaro de, --- Queirós, Pedro Fernandes de, --- Barreto Castro de Mendaña, Isabel, --- South Pacific Ocean --- Pacifique Sud --- Discovery and exploration --- Spanish --- Description and travel --- Découverte et exploration espagnoles --- Descriptions et voyages --- Discovery and exploration [Spanish ] --- Cartes --- Geographical perception. --- Travelers' writings, Spanish. --- Spanish travelers' writings --- Spanish literature --- Environmental perception --- Maps, Mental --- Mental maps --- Perceptual cartography --- Perceptual maps --- Perception --- Orientation (Psychology) --- Space perception