A history of the Pacific Islands

This wide-ranging study of the Pacific Islands provides a dynamic and provocative account of the peopling of the Pacific, and its broad impact on world history. Spanning nearly 50,000 years of human presence in an area which comprises one-third of our planet - Melanesia, Micronesia and Polynesia -...

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Main Author: Fischer, Steven Roger
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York: Palgrave, 2002.
Series:Palgrave essential histories
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