| Description |
xvi, 518 pages : maps ; 24 cm |
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Pt. 1. The Pacific to 1941. 1. Contending Approaches / Jocelyn Linnekin. 2. Human Settlement / Donald Denoon. 3. Pacific Edens? Myths and Realities of Primitive Affluence / Donald Denoon. 4. Discovering Outsiders / Malama Meleisea and Penelope Schoeffel. 5. Land, Labour and Independent Development / Donald Denoon. 6. New Political Orders / Jocelyn Linnekin. 7. New Economic Orders: Land, Labour and Dependency / Donald Denoon. 8. Colonial Administration and the Invention of the Native / Stewart Firth -- Pt. 2. The Pacific Since 1941. 9. The War in the Pacific / Stewart Firth. 10. A Nuclear Pacific / Stewart Firth and Karin von Strokirch. 11. The Material World Remade / Karen Nero. 12. The Ideological World Remade / Jocelyn Linnekin. 13. The End of Insularity / Karen Nero -- Index / Elizabeth Wood Ellem |
| Summary |
The Pacific Islands can be seen to be linked by commerce, Christianity, colonialism, world wars and the nuclear experience. Equally, they can be seen as isolated societies, and have often been represented as such by Western explorers and anthropologists. Both interpretations carry weight, as societies struggle separately to preserve or regain autonomy or band together in regional associations. The Cambridge History of the Pacific Islanders addresses these irresolvable and recurring tensions, and encompasses the entire range of human experience in the region |
| Notes |
Includes index |
| Bibliography |
Bibliography |
| Audience |
University students |
| Notes |
Donation. ANU COOP 20120212 Brissenden collection, ANU Library |
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Signed by author 1 copy. ANU |
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English |
| Subject |
Ethnology -- Oceania.
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Ethnology.
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Pacific Islanders -- History.
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Pacific Islanders -- Social life and customs -- History.
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Pacific Islanders -- Social life and customs.
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Pacific Islanders -- Oceania.
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Pacific Islanders.
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Oceania -- History. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008116422
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Oceania -- Social life and customs http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008116423 -- History. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh99005024
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Oceania -- Social life and customs. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008116423
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| Author |
Denoon, Donald.
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| LC no. |
96052784 |
| ISBN |
0521441951 |
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