Possessing the Pacific
Subtitle: Land, Settlers, and Indigenous People from Australia to Alaska
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: November 30, 2007
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 400
ISBN-13: 9780674026124
Subjects: Australasian & Pacific history; Colonization & independence; History; History - General History; History: World; Australasia, Oceania & Other Land Areas; Oceania; World - Colonial Studies; History / Oceania; Legal History; Indigenous Peoples; Land settlement; Land tenure; Northwest, Pacific
Description: Tells the story of colonial settlement in Australia, New Zealand, Fiji, Tonga, Hawaii, California, Oregon, Washington, British Columbia and Alaska, and how the settlers acquired vast amounts of land from the indigenous people. This acquisition still shapes the relations between whites and indigenous people in most of the world.