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An authoritative and comprehensive history of the Pacific islanders from 40,000 BC to the present day.

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' … this work makes a landmark contribution to our understanding of the Pacific Islands.' University of New South Wales Centre for South Pacific Studies Newsletter

Table of Contents
1. Contending approaches; 2. Settling the region; 3. Pacific Edens?; 4. Discovering outsiders; 5. Land, labour and independence; 6. New political orders; 7. Land, labour and dependency; 8. Invention of the native; 9. The war in the Pacific; 10. A nuclear Pacific; 11. The material world re-made; 12. The ideological world re-made; 13. The end of insularity?

The Cambridge History of the Pacific Islanders

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      Publisher: Cambridge University Press
      Publication Date: 3/25/2004 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN13: 9780521003544, 978-0521003544
      ISBN10: 0521003547
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      Description

      Book Synopsis
      An authoritative and comprehensive history of the Pacific islanders from 40,000 BC to the present day.

      Trade Review
      ' … this work makes a landmark contribution to our understanding of the Pacific Islands.' University of New South Wales Centre for South Pacific Studies Newsletter

      Table of Contents
      1. Contending approaches; 2. Settling the region; 3. Pacific Edens?; 4. Discovering outsiders; 5. Land, labour and independence; 6. New political orders; 7. Land, labour and dependency; 8. Invention of the native; 9. The war in the Pacific; 10. A nuclear Pacific; 11. The material world re-made; 12. The ideological world re-made; 13. The end of insularity?

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