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Trading nature Tahitians, Europeans, and ecological exchange

Title: Trading nature [electronic resource] : Tahitians, Europeans, and ecological exchange / Jennifer Newell.
Author: Newell, Jennifer.
Publication: Honolulu : University of Hawaiʻi Press, c2010.

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Description

1 online resource (xiii, 296 p.) : ill.

Uniform Title

Trading nature (Online)

Alternative Title

Trading nature (Online)
Tahitians, Europeans, and ecological exchange

Subject

Animal introduction > French Polynesia > Tahiti (Island) > History
Plant introduction > French Polynesia > Tahiti (Island) > History
Tahiti (French Polynesia : Island) > Commerce > History. > Europe
Europe > Commerce > History. > French Polynesia > Tahiti (Island)

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Access (note)

Access restricted to authorized users.

Contents

No country more capable : the provisioning trade in Tahiti -- Conceptual landscapes -- Getting Captain Cook's goat and other tales of ecological introduction -- Chiefly cattle -- Breadfruit connections -- Pigs, muskets, and a new order.

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