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A history of the Pacific Islands

Title
A history of the Pacific Islands / Steven Roger Fischer.
Author
Fischer, Steven R.
Publication
New York : Palgrave, 2002.

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xxvii, 304 pages : maps; 23 cm.
Summary
  • "This wide-ranging study of the Pacific Islands provides a dynamic and provocative account of the peopling of the Pacific, and its broad impact on world history. Spanning nearly 50,000 years of human presence in an area which comprises one-third of our planet - Melanesia, Micronesia and Polynesia - the narrative follows the development of the region, from New Guinea's earliest settlement to the creation of the modern Pacific states.
  • It also examines the fascinating processes which have contributed to the formation of the hybrid Pacific we know today."--BOOK JACKET.
Series Statement
Palgrave essential histories
Uniform Title
Palgrave essential histories.
Subjects
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. 287-297) and index.
Contents
1. The First Islanders -- 2. Melanesians, Micronesians, Polynesians -- 3. The European Trespass -- 4. The Second Colonization -- 5. New Pacific Identities -- 6. Pacific Islanders in Transit -- 7. Reinventing Pacific Islands -- 8. The 'New Pacific'.
ISBN
  • 0333949757 (cloth)
  • 0333949765 (pbk.)
LCCN
2002072647
OCLC
  • ocm50028482
  • SCSB-4319505
Owning Institutions
Columbia University Libraries