The Cambridge history of the Pacific Islanders
By: edited by Donald Denoon ... [et al.].
Contributors: Denoon, Donald.
Edition: 1st pbk. ed.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Cambridge; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 518
Subjects: Pacific Islanders.; Oceania -- History.; Ethnology -- Oceania.
Description: "The Cambridge History of the Pacific Islanders makes a landmark contribution to our understanding of this expansive and diverse region. Donald Denoon has assembled an outstanding team of scholars to produce a history that is as lively and provocative as it is rigorous and comprehensive. While it acknowledges the great diversity of Pacific peoples' cultures and experiences, the book looks for common patterns and related themes, presenting them in an insightful and innovative way."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [471]-493) and index.
First published in 1997.
Table of contents: title: Pt. 1.; title: The Pacific to 1941 -- -- 1.; title: Contending approaches -- Jocelyn Linnekin -- 2.; title: Human settlement -- Donald Denoon -- 3.; title: Pacific edens? : myths and realities of primitive affluence -- Donald Denoon -- 4.; title: Discovering outsiders -- Malama Meleisea and Penelope Schoeffel -- 5.; title: Land, labour and independent development -- Donald Denoon -- 6.; title: New political orders -- Jocelyn Linnekin -- 7.; title: New economic orders : land, labour and dependency -- Donald Denoon -- 8.; title: Colonial administration and the invention of the native -- Stewart Firth -- Pt. 2.; title: The Pacific since 1941 -- -- 9.; title: The war in the Pacific -- Stewart Firth -- 10.; title: A nuclear Pacific -- Stewart Firth and Karin von Strokirch -- 11.; title: The material world remade -- Karen Nero -- 12.; title: The ideological world remade -- Jocelyn Linnekin -- 13.; title: The end of insularity -- Karen Nero.