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A history of the Pacific Islands / Steven Roger Fischer.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Palgrave essential historiesPublisher: Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire : Palgrave Macmillan, 2013Edition: 2nd edDescription: xxxiii, 331 pages : maps ; 22 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0230362680
  • 9780230362680
  • 0230362699
  • 9780230362697
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 990 23
LOC classification:
  • DU28.3
Partial 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'.
Review: "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"--Back cover.
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Item type Current library Call number Copy number Status Date due Barcode
Book City Campus City Campus Main Collection 990 FIS (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available A511125B
Book South Campus South Campus Main Collection 990 FIS (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Issued 30/09/2024 A511750B

Previous edition published: 2002.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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'.

"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"--Back cover.

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