New Guinea
Subtitle: crossing boundaries and history
By: Clive Moore.
Publisher: University of Hawai'i Press
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Honolulu
Language: eng
Number of pages: 274
Subjects: New Guinea -- History.
Description: "New Guinea, the world's largest tropical island, is a land of great contrasts, ranging from small glaciers on its highest peaks to broad mangrove swamps in its lowlands and hundreds of smaller islands and coral atolls along its coasts. Divided between two nations, the island and its neighboring archipelago form Indonesia's Papua Province (or Irian Jaya) and the independent nation of Papua New Guinea, both former European colonies. Most books on New Guinea have been guided by these and other divisions, separating east from west, prehistoric from historic, precontact from postcontact, colonial from postcolonial. This is the first work to consider New Guinea and its 40,000-year history in its entirety." "Ambitious and wide-ranging, New Guinea: Crossing Boundaries and History effectively challenges conventional thinking about the region and will be read with great interest by students and scholars of Pacific and Indonesian history, anthropology, and prehistory."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [227]-261) and index.
Table of contents: title: Environment and people: 40,000-5,000 B.P.; title: Cultural spheres and trade systems: the last 5,000 years; title: West New Guinea and the Malay world; title: West New Guinea: European trade and settlment, 1520s-1880; title: The nineteenth century: trade, settlement, and missionaries; title: The nineteenth century: exploration and colonisation; title: Interpreting early contact; title: Twentieth century: colonialism and independence.