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Book Synopsis The Growth and Collapse of Pacific Island Societies by : Patrick Vinton Kirch
Download or read book The Growth and Collapse of Pacific Island Societies written by Patrick Vinton Kirch and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 2007-04-30 with total page 410 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Were there major population collapses on Pacific Islands following first contact with the West? If so, what were the actual population numbers for islands such as Hawai‘i, Tahiti, or New Caledonia? Is it possible to develop new methods for tracking the long-term histories of island populations? These and related questions are at the heart of this new book, which draws together cutting-edge research by archaeologists, ethnographers, and demographers. In their accounts of exploration, early European voyagers in the Pacific frequently described the teeming populations they encountered on island after island. Yet missionary censuses and later nineteenth-century records often indicate much smaller populations on Pacific Islands, leading many scholars to debunk the explorers’ figures as romantic exaggerations. Recently, the debate over the indigenous populations of the Pacific has intensified, and this book addresses the problem from new perspectives. Rather than rehash old data and arguments about the validity of explorers’ or missionaries’ accounts, the contributors to this volume offer a series of case studies grounded in new empirical data derived from original archaeological fieldwork and from archival historical research. Case studies are presented for the Hawaiian Islands, Mo‘orea, the Marquesas, Tonga, Samoa, the Tokelau Islands, New Caledonia, Aneityum (Vanuatu), and Kosrae.
Book Synopsis Island Societies by : Patrick Vinton Kirch
Download or read book Island Societies written by Patrick Vinton Kirch and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1986-10-09 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Concentrating their attention on the Pacific Islands, the contributors to this book show how the tightly focused social and economic systems of islands offer archaeologists a series of unique opportunities for tracking and explaining prehistoric change. From the 1950s onwards, excavations in such islands as Fiji, Palau and Hawaii revolutionised Oceanic archaeology and, as the major problems of cultural origins and island sequences were resolves, archaeologists came increasingly to study social change and to integrate newly acquired data on material culture with older ethnographic and ethnohistorical materials. The fascinating results of this work, centring on the evolution of complex Oceanic chiefdoms into something very much like classic 'archaic states', are authoritatively surveyed here.
Book Synopsis A Comparative Study of the Melanesian Island Languages by : Sidney Herbert Ray
Download or read book A Comparative Study of the Melanesian Island Languages written by Sidney Herbert Ray and published by CUP Archive. This book was released on 1926 with total page 636 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Pacific Island Landscapes by : Patrick D. Nunn
Download or read book Pacific Island Landscapes written by Patrick D. Nunn and published by [email protected]. This book was released on 1998 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Pacific island landscapes explores the origin and physical history of one of the least known regions of the Earth's surface - the Pacific Islands. Never before has such a systematic account of the island groups been compiled. In this volume, Patrick Nunn outlines how each of the main island groups originated then gives detailed accounts - much from his own research -- - of islands in Fiji, Samoa and Tonga. A final substantive chapter treats the interaction of early human settlers of Pacific Islands and their environments."--Back cover
Book Synopsis Records of the Proceedings and Printed Papers of the Parliament by : Australia. Parliament
Download or read book Records of the Proceedings and Printed Papers of the Parliament written by Australia. Parliament and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 1678 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Notes on Forests and Trees of the Central and Southwest Pacific Area by : United States. Forest Service
Download or read book Notes on Forests and Trees of the Central and Southwest Pacific Area written by United States. Forest Service and published by . This book was released on 1945 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Christian Treasury written by and published by . This book was released on 1881 with total page 640 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis They Came for Sandalwood by : Dorothy Shineberg
Download or read book They Came for Sandalwood written by Dorothy Shineberg and published by University of Queensland Press. This book was released on 2014-06-01 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Few Pacific history books have stood the test of time as well as They Came for Sandalwood, but Dorothy Shineberg's book, first published in 1967, has never been bettered. This fascinating account of the sandalwood trade describes the first regular contact between Europeans and the Melanesians of New Caledonia, the Loyalty Islands, and the New Hebrides (now Vanuatu). Shineberg studied the relationships and rivalries between European traders and European missionaries, between trader and trader, and between tribe and tribe among the indigenous peoples. Her book documents the details and color of these interactions. Unseaworthy ships, bloody battles, the hazards of sea and reef, and the firepower and inadequacies of European weapons all provide a gripping picture of the 1830s to 1860s. Valuable appendices list the ships involved, their cargoes and the location of the sandalwood stations. They Came for Sandalwood remains the only detailed account of the sandalwood trade, its routes, marketing problems and profits, and of the ships, merchants and seamen involved. It is a sharp, perceptive analysis of the confrontation of the two cultures, approached from the standpoint of Pacific history rather than a mere extension of European history into the PacificIslands.
Download or read book The Dayspring written by and published by . This book was released on 1872 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis H.O. Pub by : United States. Hydrographic Office
Download or read book H.O. Pub written by United States. Hydrographic Office and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 724 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Missionary Review written by and published by . This book was released on 1898 with total page 524 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Polynesian Wanderings by : William Churchill
Download or read book The Polynesian Wanderings written by William Churchill and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 556 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Comparative Austronesian Dictionary by : Darrell T. Tryon
Download or read book Comparative Austronesian Dictionary written by Darrell T. Tryon and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2011-06-01 with total page 3564 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Volumes in the Trends in Linguistics. Documentation series focus on the presentation of linguistic data. The series addresses the sustained interest in linguistic descriptions, dictionaries, grammars and editions of under-described and hitherto undocumented languages. All world-regions and time periods are represented.
Book Synopsis Parliamentary Papers by : Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons
Download or read book Parliamentary Papers written by Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 888 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Erromanga, the Martyr Isle by : H. A. Robertson
Download or read book Erromanga, the Martyr Isle written by H. A. Robertson and published by . This book was released on 1902 with total page 528 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Report by : Commonwealth Shipping Committee
Download or read book Report written by Commonwealth Shipping Committee and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 880 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis A Year in the New Hebrides, Loyalty Islands, and New Caledonia. By F. A. Campbell. With an Account of the Early History of the New Hebrides Missions, by A. J. Campbell ... a Narrative of the Voyages of The"Dayspring,"by D. M'Donald ... and an Appendix, Containing a Contribution to the Phytography of the New Hebrides, by Baron Von Mueller ... Illustrated by : Frederick Alexander CAMPBELL
Download or read book A Year in the New Hebrides, Loyalty Islands, and New Caledonia. By F. A. Campbell. With an Account of the Early History of the New Hebrides Missions, by A. J. Campbell ... a Narrative of the Voyages of The"Dayspring,"by D. M'Donald ... and an Appendix, Containing a Contribution to the Phytography of the New Hebrides, by Baron Von Mueller ... Illustrated written by Frederick Alexander CAMPBELL and published by . This book was released on 1873 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
