The Cambridge History of the Pacific Islanders
The Cambridge History of the Pacific Islanders
Malama Meleisea
Stewart Firth
Jocelyn Linnekin
Karen Nero
£79.00
GBPThis history presents an authoritative and comprehensive introduction to the experiences of Pacific islanders from their first settlement of the islands to the present day. It addresses the question of insularity and explores islanders' experiences thematically, covering such topics as early settlement, contact with Europeans, colonialism, politics, commerce, nuclear testing, tradition, ideology, and the role of women. It incorporates material on the Maori, the Irianese in western New Guinea, the settled immigrant communities in Fiji, New Caledonia and the Hawaiian monarchy and follows migrants to New Zealand, Australia and North America.
- A unique book covering the whole island region from 40,000 BC to present day
- Provides balanced presentation of competing interpretations
- Organised thematically rather than island-by-island treatment
- Written by leading experts on the Pacific region
Reviews & endorsements
' … this work makes a landmark contribution to our understanding of the Pacific Islands.' University of New South Wales Centre for South Pacific Studies Newsletter
Product details
March 2004Paperback
9780521003544
540 pages
229 × 152 × 31 mm
0.79kg
2 b/w illus. 26 maps 3 tables
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Table of Contents
- 1. Contending approaches
- 2. Settling the region
- 3. Pacific Edens?
- 4. Discovering outsiders
- 5. Land, labour and independence
- 6. New political orders
- 7. Land, labour and dependency
- 8. Invention of the native
- 9. The war in the Pacific
- 10. A nuclear Pacific
- 11. The material world re-made
- 12. The ideological world re-made
- 13. The end of insularity?
