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The Cambridge History of the Pacific Islanders » (New Edition)

Authors: Malama Meleisea, Donald Denoon (Editor), Stewart Firth
ISBN-13: 9780521003544, ISBN-10: 0521003547
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Date Published: February 2004
Edition: New Edition

An authoritative and comprehensive history of the Pacific islanders from 40,000 BC to the present day.

	List of Maps and Figures
	List of Contributors
	Abbreviations
	Conversions
	Preface
	Acknowledgments
Pt. 1	The Pacific to 1941	1
1	Contending Approaches	3
2	Human Settlement	37
3	Pacific Edens? Myths and Realities of Primitive Affluence	80
4	Discovering Outsiders	119
5	Land, Labour and Independent Development	152
6	New Political Orders	185
7	New Economic Orders: Land, Labour and Dependency	218
8	Colonial Administration and the Invention of the Native	253
Pt. 2	The Pacific Since 1941	289
9	The War in the Pacific	291
10	A Nuclear Pacific	324
11	The Material World Remade	359
12	The Ideological World Remade	397
13	The End of Insularity	439
	Glossary	468
	Abbreviations	471
	Bibliography	471
	Index	494