TY  - BOOK
AU  - Fischer,Steven R.
TI  - A history of the Pacific Islands
T2  - Palgrave essential histories
SN  - 0230362680
AV  - DU28.3 
U1  - 990 23
PY  - 2013///
CY  - Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire
PB  - Palgrave Macmillan
KW  - Ethnology
KW  - Oceania
KW  - Pacific Islanders
KW  - History
KW  - Pacific Area
KW  - Islands of the Pacific
N1  - 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'; Tertiary/Undergraduate
N2  - "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
ER  -