A History of the Pacific Islands: Passages through Tropical Time
A book about the past and present Pacific Islands, wide-ranging in time and space spanning the centuries from the first settlement of the islands until the present day.
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A History of the Pacific Islands: Passages through Tropical Time
A book about the past and present Pacific Islands, wide-ranging in time and space spanning the centuries from the first settlement of the islands until the present day.
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A History of the Pacific Islands: Passages through Tropical Time

A History of the Pacific Islands: Passages through Tropical Time

by Deryck Scarr
A History of the Pacific Islands: Passages through Tropical Time

A History of the Pacific Islands: Passages through Tropical Time

by Deryck Scarr

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A book about the past and present Pacific Islands, wide-ranging in time and space spanning the centuries from the first settlement of the islands until the present day.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780700712939
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Publication date: 09/14/2001
Pages: 368
Product dimensions: 6.12(w) x 9.19(h) x (d)
Age Range: 18 Years

Table of Contents

1: Sea of Uprearing Billows; 1: Sea-Lanes; 2: Defining an Ocean; 2: ‘Big Waqa, Great Labour'; 3: Darkness from the Sea; 4: The Way to Atuona; 5: Destinies Ashore; 3: Vaka from Tangaroa; 6: Unpacific Seas, Ultimate Landfalls; 7: Oceania Charted, Humankind Redefined 1767–1793; 4: Schooner on the Reef; 8: Mirrors and Mobility; 9: Money, Rim Ports, Shipowners and Time; 10: Literature, Death, Marriage, Dependence and Island Mind; 5: Ages of Passing Innocence; 11: Credit and Copra Kings; 12: Power, Labour, Production, Outport and Identity; 13: Not from Mountain but Canoe; 14: Ports, Passage-Making, Mortality and Moderated Morality in the Labour Traffic; 6: 'Bout Ship and Try Again; 15: Ironic Gestures, Senses of Self and Survival; 16: Romance and Realities; 17: Visions and Contradictions: The Early Twentieth Century; 18: Shipping Companies, Competition and Japan's Dull Steel 1900–1940; 19: Islands in Wartime: Like Destroyers in Line Ahead; Finale 1945–2000; 20: Postwar Worlds, Retrospectively
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