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New Guinea : crossing boundaries and history / Clive Moore.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Honolulu : University of Hawai'i Press, 2003Description: xiv, 274 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0824824857
  • 9780824824853
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 995 21
LOC classification:
  • DU739 .M66 2003
Contents:
Introduction: Interpreting Melanesia -- 1. Environment and People: 40,000 - 5,000 B.P. -- 2. Cultural Spheres and Trade Systems: The Last 5,000 Years -- 3. West New Guinea and the Malay World -- 4. West New Guinea: European Trade and Settlement, 1520-1880 -- 5. The Nineteenth Century: Trade, Settlement, and Missionaries -- 6. The Nineteenth Century: Exploration and Colonization -- 7. Interpreting Early Contact -- 8. The Twentieth Century: Colonialism and Independence.
Review: "New Guinea, the world's largest tropical island, is a land of great contrasts, ranging from small glaciers on its highest peaks to broad mangrove swamps in its lowlands and hundreds of smaller islands and coral atolls along its coasts. Divided between two nations, the island and its neighboring archipelago form Indonesia's Papua Province (or Irian Jaya) and the independent nation of Papua New Guinea, both former European colonies. Most books on New Guinea have been guided by these and other divisions, separating east from west, prehistoric from historic, precontact from postcontact, colonial from postcolonial. This is the first work to consider New Guinea and its 40,000-year history in its entirety." "Ambitious and wide-ranging, New Guinea: Crossing Boundaries and History effectively challenges conventional thinking about the region and will be read with great interest by students and scholars of Pacific and Indonesian history, anthropology, and prehistory."--BOOK JACKET.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 227-261) and index.

Introduction: Interpreting Melanesia -- 1. Environment and People: 40,000 - 5,000 B.P. -- 2. Cultural Spheres and Trade Systems: The Last 5,000 Years -- 3. West New Guinea and the Malay World -- 4. West New Guinea: European Trade and Settlement, 1520-1880 -- 5. The Nineteenth Century: Trade, Settlement, and Missionaries -- 6. The Nineteenth Century: Exploration and Colonization -- 7. Interpreting Early Contact -- 8. The Twentieth Century: Colonialism and Independence.

"New Guinea, the world's largest tropical island, is a land of great contrasts, ranging from small glaciers on its highest peaks to broad mangrove swamps in its lowlands and hundreds of smaller islands and coral atolls along its coasts. Divided between two nations, the island and its neighboring archipelago form Indonesia's Papua Province (or Irian Jaya) and the independent nation of Papua New Guinea, both former European colonies. Most books on New Guinea have been guided by these and other divisions, separating east from west, prehistoric from historic, precontact from postcontact, colonial from postcolonial. This is the first work to consider New Guinea and its 40,000-year history in its entirety." "Ambitious and wide-ranging, New Guinea: Crossing Boundaries and History effectively challenges conventional thinking about the region and will be read with great interest by students and scholars of Pacific and Indonesian history, anthropology, and prehistory."--BOOK JACKET.

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