Title: Man in the Pacific Islands; essays on geographical change in the Pacific Islands,
Authors: Ward, R. Gerard
Publisher: Clarendon Press,
Year: 1972
Subjects: Oceania Economic conditions; Oceania Social conditions.
Contents: Golson, J. The Pacific islands and their prehistoric inhabitants. -- Farrell, B. H. The alien and the land of Oceania. -- Robbins, R. G. Vegetation and man in the South-west Pacific and New Guinea. -- Ward, R. G. The Pacific Rêche-de-mar trade with special reference to Fiji. -- Parnaby, O. W. The labour trade. -- Newbury, C. Trade and plantations in eastern Polynesia: the emergence of a dependent economy. -- Newbury, C. The Makatea phosphate concession. -- Pirie, P. Population growth in the Pacific Islands: the example of Western Samoa. -- Crocombe, R. G. Land tenure in the South Pacific. -- Lea, D. A. M. Indigenous horticulture in Melanesia: some recent changes in Eastern New Guinea, the Solomon Islands, and the New Hebrides. -- McTaggart, W. D. Urbanization in the South Pacific [and] the case of Nouméa