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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New York:
Palgrave,
2002.
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| Series: | Palgrave essential histories
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Table of Contents:
- 1. The First Islanders
- 2. Melanesians, Micronesians, Polynesians
- 3. The European Trespass
- 4. The Second Colonization
- 5. New Pacific Identities
- 6. Pacific Islanders in Transit
- 7. Reinventing Pacific Islands
- 8. The 'New Pacific'