Title: A history of the Pacific Islands /
Authors: Fischer, Steven R.
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan,
Year: 2013
Subjects: Pacific Islanders.; Ethnology Oceania; Oceania History
Abstract: This 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 - the narrative follows the development of the region, from New Guinea's earliest settlement to the creation of the modern Pacific states. -Publlishers Description
Contents: The first islanders -- Melanesians, Micronesians, Polynesians -- The European trespass -- The second colonization -- New Pacific identities -- Pacific islanders in transit -- Reinventing Pacific Islands -- The 'New Pacific.'