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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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- Description
- 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.
- Subject
- 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