Mangilao, Guam: Guampedia Foundation, 2013. — 460 p. The 2nd Marianas History Conference took place at the University of Guam August 30-31, 2013. It was organized by the University of Guam, Northern Mariana Islands Humanities Council, Guam Preservation Trust and Guampedia.com after the 1st Marianas History Conference held on Saipan in 2012. About 250 people from around the...
New York, NY : Berghahn Books, 2019. — 334 p., figures, tables. — (Studies in German History, vol. 22.) Traditionally, Germany has been considered a minor player in Pacific history: its presence there was more limited than that of other European nations, and whereas its European rivals established themselves as imperial forces beginning in the early modern era, Germany did not...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2014. — 303 p. On Shrinking Continents and Expanding Oceans. On Chronometers, Cartography, and Curiosity. On Narrating the Pacific. On the Usefulness of Information. On History and Hydrography. On Rediscovering the Americas. Epilogue: Iberian Visions of the Pacific Ocean, 1507–1899.
University of Hawaii Press, 1999. — 352 p. What actually happened as Europeans and peoples of the Pacific discovered each other? How have their respective senses of the past influenced their understanding of the present? And what are the consequences of their meeting? In this collection of essays, scholars from European, Polynesian, and Settler backgrounds provide answers to...
University Of Minnesota Press, 2016. — 344 p. What if we saw indigenous people as the active agents of global exploration rather than as the passive objects of that exploration? What if, instead of conceiving of global exploration as an enterprise just of European men such as Columbus or Cook or Magellan, we thought of it as an enterprise of the people they “discovered”? What...
Cambridge University Press, 1997. - 540 p. This history presents an authoritative and comprehensive introduction to the experiences of Pacific islanders from their first settlement of the islands to the present day. It addresses the question of insularity and explores islanders' experiences thematically, covering such topics as early settlement, contact with Europeans,...
ANU E Press, 2003 - 325 p. Most of the chapters in this book were presented as papers at a three-day conference in Port Vila, Vanuatu, in June 2000. Organised jointly by the Australian National University’s State, Society and Governance in Melanesia (SSGM) Project and the Law School of the University of the South Pacific (USP), the conference was held at the Emalus Campus of...
Canberra, Australia: ANU E Press, The Australian National University, 2008. — xx + 352 p. — ISBN: 9781921313998; ISBN: 9781921536007. From the 18th century, Oceania became the principal laboratory of raciology for scholars, voyagers, and colonisers alike. By juxtaposing encounters and theory, this magisterial book explores the semantics of human difference in all its emotional,...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2014. — 384 p. Spanning four centuries and vast space, this book combines the global history of ideas with particular histories of encounters between European voyagers and Indigenous people in Oceania (Island Southeast Asia, New Guinea, Australia, New Zealand, and the Pacific Islands). Douglas shows how prevailing concepts of human difference, or race,...
Allen Unwin, 2007. — 288 p. Seeking the legendary Great South Land, the Spanish conquistadors of the late 16th and early 17th centuries sailed from South America into the unknown southwestern Pacific. Crossing the planet's largest ocean in small wooden ships with rudimentary navigation, these conquistadors encountered for the first time the Solomon Islands, Vanuatu, the south...
Reaktion Books, 2006. - 306 p. On a long stretch of green coast in the South Pacific, hundreds of enormous, impassive stone heads stand guard against the ravages of time, war, and disease that have attempted over the centuries to conquer Easter Island. Steven Roger Fischer offers the first English-language history of Easter Island in Island at the End of the World, a...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2002. — 240 p. A History of the Pacific Islands traces the human history of nearly one-third of the globe over a 50,000 year span. This is history on a grand scale, taking the islands of Melanesia, Micronesia, and Polynesia from prehistoric culture to the present day through a skillful interpretation of scholarship in the field. Fischer's familiarity with...
Oxford, 2013. — 322 p. Historians and archaeologists define primary states — “cradles of civilization” from which all modern nation states ultimately derive — as large-scale, territorially-based, autonomous societies in which a centralized, bureaucratic government employs legitimate power to exercise sovereignty. The well-recognized list of regions that witnessed the...
Angus and Robertson Publishers, 1973. — 474 p. This collection of readings provides source material for students in history and social science. Few of the extracts can be readily found in either school or university libraries, but none is merely esoteric. The readings are arranged in general chronological order, with separate chapters devoted to the parallel developments in...
University of Hawaii Press, 2014. — 336 p. In early Hawai‘i, kua‘āina were the hinterlands inhabited by nā kua‘āina, or country folk. Often these were dry, less desirable areas where much skill and hard work were required to wrest a living from the lava landscapes. The ancient district of Kahikinui in southeast Maui is such a kua‘āina and remains one of the largest tracts of...
Australian National University Press, 2017. — 125 + xii p. — ISBN(s): 9781760461652 (print), 9781760461669 (eBook). Preface. xi 1 Introduction 2 Islanders at War 3 Why Support the Allies? 4 Impacts of the War 5 Monument-building and Nation‑building 6 Conclusion Appendix 1: Prime Minister Derek Sikua’s letter of endorsement of the Solomon Scouts and Coastwatchers Trust Appendix...
ANU E Press, 2010. — 316 p. How are Pacific lives imagined, written and read? How are they refracted through prisms of process? From legends about culture heroes to biographies of national leaders, from tales of ancestors to stories of contemporary men and women, from lives told of both the famous and the nameless, this collection of essays — by historians and anthropologists,...
Cambridge Uneversity Press, 2008. — 245 p. Over the last twenty years, a substantial body of literature has emerged on various aspects of cultural traditions in non-Western societies. Many of these works have celebrated the renaissance of indigenous cultural representations in the arts as well as in social life more generally, particularly in the context of post-colonial...
I.B.Tauris, 2014. — 288 p. Little more than seventy years after the British settled Van Diemen’s Land (later Tasmania) in 1803, its indigenous population had been virtually wiped out. Yet this genocide - one of the earliest of the modern era - is virtually forgotten in Britain today. The Last Man is the first book specifically to explore the role of the British government and...
Aarhus University Press, 2009. — 416 p. This book of classic scope is a monograph on a Melanesian society, an exploration of ranked exchange and a bold critique of anthropological exchange theory. John Liep unravels the complex society and exchange system on Rossel Island east of New Guinea. At centre stage is the famous 'Rossel Island money', a hierarchy of more than twenty...
Cambridge University Press, 2016. — 275 p. — ISBN: 978-1-107037-59-5. This book charts the previously untold story of decolonisation in the oceanic world of the Pacific, Australia and New Zealand, presenting it both as an indigenous and an international phenomenon. Tracey Banivanua Mar reveals how the inherent limits of decolonisation were laid bare by the historical...
NXB Chính Trị Quốc Gia, 2012. — 392 p. Cuốn sách giới thiệu tới độc giả, các nhà nghiên cứu hàng nghìn trang tài liệu của các cơ quan trung ương của chính quyền Sài Gòn, các cơ quan của Hoa Kỳ ở miền Nam Việt Nam về quá trình đàm phán ở Paris từ năm 1968 đến năm 1972. Nội dung sách được biên soạn chủ yếu từ nguồn tài liệu lưu trữ, là những báo cáo, tường trình, sắc lệnh, nghị...
Scarecrow Press, 2005. — 385 p. The long voyages of discovery and exploration of the vast Pacific Ocean were an exercise in logistics, navigation, hard grit, shipwreck and pure luck. The motivations were scientific and geographic, but at the same time nationalistic and materialistic. This ambitious and informative reference includes the familiar names of Laperouse,...
Cambridge University Press, 1997. - 268 p. What do people think when they imagine themselves as part of a nation? Nation and Commemoration answers this question in an exploration of the creation and recreation of national identities through commemorative activities. Extending recent work in cultural sociology and history, Lyn Spillman compares centennial and bicentennial...
Blackwell, 1997. — 326 p. — (The Peoples of South-East Asia and the Pacific). — ISBN: 0-631-16727-7. The Island Melanesians is the first book to focus on the inhabitants of the chain of archipelagoes stretching east and southeast of the large island of New Guinea - the Bismarcks, Solomon Islands, Vanuatu and New Caledonia (Kanaky). The story of these people begins with the...
Scarecrow Press, 2001. — 416 p. Papua New Guinea has experienced a remarkable rapid transition from scattered primitive societies to a modern unified nation. The A-Z Dictionary covers major economic, social, political and cultural developments, basic geographic information, and key biographies. Ann Turner is currently a freelance writer, researcher, and consultant. She has...
Australian National University Press, 1966. — 192 p. The paucity of published material on the borders of New Guinea and the international significance of the Irian boundary led me to bring together the information I had gathered over the past few years. Ideally, a book of this kind should cover the subject in its total historical and geographical context. The aim of this work...
Vancouver, BC: Douglas & McIntyre, 2012. — 174 p. Excerpt from the book: "My name is Saul Indian Horse. I am the son of Mary Mandamin and John Indian Horse. My grandfather was called Solomon so my name is the diminutive of his. My people are from the Fish Clan of the northern Ojibway, the Anishinabeg, we call ourselves. We made our home in the territories along the Winnipeg...
Scarecrow Press, 1994. — 172 p. The book, in dictionary form, provides basic reference material on Micronesia, a region encompassing a vast area of the tropical western Pacific Ocean. Micronesia, from the Greek mikros (small), and nesos (island), is one of the three major geographical regions of the Pacific, or Oceania. It includes the Mariana, Caroline, Marshall, and Gilbert...
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