| A History of the Pacific Islands: Passages Through Tropical Time Contributor(s): Scarr, Deryck (Author) |
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ISBN: 0700712933 ISBN-13: 9780700712939 Publisher: Routledge OUR PRICE: $152.00 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: September 2001 Annotation: This is a book about the past and present Pacific Islands, wide-ranging in time and space. It spans the centuries from the first, pre-European, Melanesian and Polynesian settlement of Islands from New Guinea to Tahiti and Easter Island, until the present day. Indigenous social, economic and political systems are examined and then the post-sixteenth-century European 'discovery' of the Pacific. Cultural, political, trading, social and personal exchanges in island worlds are analysed and described, from 1767 to the year 2000. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | Oceania - History | Asia - Southeast Asia |
| Dewey: 990 |
| Physical Information: 1.3" H x 6.24" W x 9.66" (1.56 lbs) 368 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Oceania - Cultural Region - Southeast Asian |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |