TY - BOOK AU - Campbell,I.C. TI - Worlds apart: a history of the Pacific Islands SN - 1927145023 U1 - 990 22 PY - 2011///] CY - Christchurch, N.Z. PB - Canterbury University Press KW - Oceania KW - History N1 - Previous ed.: 2003; Previously published as: A history of the Pacific Islands. 1989; Includes bibliographical references (pages 381-383) and index; Ch. 1. The people of Oceania -- Ch. 2. Papuan and Austronesian colonisation -- Ch. 3. The age of European discovery -- Ch. 4. Polynesia: trade and social change -- Ch. 5. Polynesia: missionaries and kingdoms -- Ch. 6. Polynesia: European settlement and the later kingdoms -- Ch. 7. Melanesia: sandalwood and 'blackbirding' -- Ch. 8. Melanesia: missionaries and colonists -- Ch. 9. Micronesia: colonisation, commerce and Christianity -- Ch. 10. Imperialist intervention -- Ch. 11. After a century of contact -- Ch. 12. Early experiments in colonial government: 1. The British Empire -- Ch. 13. Early experiments in colonial government: 2, France, Germany and the United States -- Ch. 14. Civilising colonialism: the League of Nations experiment -- Ch. 15. Certainty and insecurity 1914-15 -- Ch. 16. Planning a new world -- Ch. 17. Independence bestowed -- Ch. 18. Independence retarded -- Ch. 19. Post-colonial trends -- Ch. 20. Democratic variations -- Appendix: Basic facts ER -