Title Paradise past : the transformation of the South Pacific, 1520-1920 / Robert W. Kirk

Published Jefferson, North Carolina : McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, [2012]

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Description 1 online resource (vii, 288 pages) : illustrations, maps Contents What Magellan Never Found, 1520-1521 -- Spaniards Explore Their Lake, 1568-1793 -- The Dutch Century, 1616-1722 -- Disturbing the Tahitian Arcadia, 1767-1842 -- In the Bounty's Wake, 1789-1864 -- A White Tribe at Botany Bay, 1788-1911 -- The Death of the Last Tasmanian, 1642-1876 -- Maori Encounters, 1769-1840 -- The Sandwich Islands Transformed, 1778-1874 -- Missionaries Triumphant : Rarotonga and Mangareva, 1818-1887 -- Cannibals and Crucifxes : The Marquesas, 1774-1914 -- Vanished : Easter Island's Incredible Culture, 1722-1914 -- Bayonets and Baguettes : French Polynesia, 1842-1914 -- French Melanesia Subdued, 1774-1914 -- Rocking the Cradle : Tonga and Samoa, 1773-1914 -- Fiji : King Cakobau's Dilemma, 1803-1914 -- Maoris Marginalized, 1840-1914 -- Holding Out : New Hebrides, the Solomons and New Guinea, 1767-1914 -- Hawaii Subdued, 1874-1914 -- The Imperial Impulse, 1883-1918 -- An Ongoing Transformation, 1918-20 -- Appendix: Timeline of Signifcant Events Summary In the 400 years from Magellan's entrance into Pacific waters to 1920, the lives of the people of the South Pacific were utterly transformed. The coming of westerners, as this book points out, was not entirely negative, as head-hunting, cannibalism, chronic warfare, human sacrifice, and other practices were diminished--but whole cultures were irreversibly changed or even eradicated "In the 400 years from Magellan's entrance into Pacific waters to 1920, the lives of the people of the South Pacific were transformed. Pacific people died from exotic diseases from Europe and America. The coming of westerners, as this book points out, was not entirely negative, as head-hunting, cannibalism, chronic warfare, human sacrifice, and other practices were diminished"--Provided by publisher Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Print version record Subject Social change -- Oceania -- History Indigenous peoples -- Oceania -- History Indigenous peoples -- Oceania -- Social conditions HISTORY -- Oceania. Colonial influence Colonization Indigenous peoples Indigenous peoples -- Social conditions Social change Social conditions SUBJECT Oceania -- Colonization -- History Oceania -- Colonial influence Oceania -- Social conditions Subject Oceania Genre/Form History Form Electronic book ISBN 9780786492985 0786492988

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