A History of the Pacific Islands
Subtitle: Passages through Tropical Time
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: RoutledgeCurzon
Published: September 14, 2001
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 323
ISBN-13: 9780700712939
Subjects: Australasian & Pacific history; Oceania; History; History - General History; History: World; Pacific Ocean; History / Southeast Asia; United States - State & Local - General
First sentence: ALMOST AS LOG-BOOKS serve literate seafarers of the Western world, so their oral literature serves richly-imaginative peoples of Pacific Islands.
Description: "Deryck Scarr examines the Pacific Islands' indigenous social, economic and political systems and then places in context the post-sixteenth-century European 'discovery' of the Pacific. Cultural, political, trading, social and personal exchanges in Island worlds are described and analysed, from 1767 to the year 2000. Throughout the book, the Island world and its people on land and on the sea are held firmly in the foreground." -- from the dust jacket.