A history of the Pacific Islands
By: Steven Roger Fischer.
Series: Palgrave essential histories
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan; Palgrave
Published: 2002
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 304
Subjects: Pacific Islanders; Ethnology -- Oceania; Oceania -- History
Description: "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 - the narrative follows the development of the region, from New Guinea's earliest settlement to the creation of the modern Pacific states.

It also examines the fascinating processes which have contributed to the formation of the hybrid Pacific we know today."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.