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Total Pages : 704 pages
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Download or read book History of Micronesia written by and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 704 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Rodrigue Lévesque
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Download or read book History of Micronesia: French ships in the Pacific written by Rodrigue Lévesque and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Rodrigue Levesque
Publisher : History of Micronesia
ISBN 13 : 9780920201114
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (11 download)
Download or read book French Ships in the Pacific, 1708-1717 written by Rodrigue Levesque and published by History of Micronesia. This book was released on 2000 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These volumes are a continuation of a series on the history of the North Pacific. Each contains primary source material (official reports, private letters) and extracts from rare books, translated from various languages.
Author : Rodrigue Lévesque
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Total Pages : 706 pages
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Download or read book History of Micronesia: French ships in the Pacific, 1708-1717 written by Rodrigue Lévesque and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 706 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Reilly Ridgell
Publisher : Bess Press
ISBN 13 : 9781573060011
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (6 download)
Download or read book Pacific Nations and Territories written by Reilly Ridgell and published by Bess Press. This book was released on 1995 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides a background in Pacific geography, culture, and history, plus an overview of the different Pacific island groups.
Author : Steven Roger Fischer
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 135030672X
Total Pages : 396 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (53 download)
Download or read book A History of the Pacific Islands written by Steven Roger Fischer and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2013-03-13 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 over 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. Thoroughly revised and updated in light of the most recent scholarship, the second edition includes: • an overview of the events and developments in the Pacific Islands over the last decade • coverage of the latest archaeological discoveries • several new maps • an updated and expanded bibliography Steven Roger Fischer's unique text provides a highly accessible and invaluable introduction to the history of an area which is currently emerging as pivotal in international affairs. A History of the Pacific Islands traces the human history of nearly one-third of the globe over a fifty-thousand year span. This is history on a grand scale, taking the islands of Melanesia, Micronesia and Polynesia from prehistoric culture to the present day through a skilful interpretation of scholarship in the field. Fischer's familiarity with work in archaeology and anthropology as well as in history enriches the text, making this a book with wide appeal for students and general readers.
Author : Alastair Couper
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
ISBN 13 : 0824864239
Total Pages : 281 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (248 download)
Download or read book Sailors and Traders written by Alastair Couper and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 2008-12-09 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written by a senior scholar and master mariner, Sailors and Traders is the first comprehensive account of the maritime peoples of the Pacific. It focuses on the sailors who led the exploration and settlement of the islands and New Zealand and their seagoing descendants, providing along the way new material and unique observations on traditional and commercial seagoing against the background of major periods in Pacific history. The book begins by detailing the traditions of sailors, a group whose way of life sets them apart. Like all others who live and work at sea, Pacific mariners face the challenges of an often harsh environment, endure separation from their families for months at a time, revere their vessels, and share a singular attitude to risk and death. The period of prehistoric seafaring is discussed using archaeological data, interpretations from interisland exchanges, experimental voyaging, and recent DNA analysis. Sections on the arrival of foreign exploring ships centuries later concentrate on relations between visiting sailors and maritime communities. The more intrusive influx of commercial trading and whaling ships brought new technology, weapons, and differences in the ethics of trade. The successes and failures of Polynesian chiefs who entered trading with European-type ships are recounted as neglected aspects of Pacific history. As foreign-owned commercial ships expanded in the region so did colonialism, which was accompanied by an increase in the number of sailors from metropolitan countries and a decrease in the employment of Pacific islanders on foreign ships. Eventually small-scale island entrepreneurs expanded interisland shipping, and in 1978 the regional Pacific Forum Line was created by newly independent states. This was welcomed as a symbolic return to indigenous Pacific ocean linkages. The book’s final sections detail the life of the modern Pacific seafarer. Most Pacific sailors in the global maritime labor market return home after many months at sea, bringing money, goods, a wider perspective of the world, and sometimes new diseases. Each of these impacts is analyzed, particularly in the case of Kiribati, a major supplier of labor to foreign ships.
Author : Max Quanchi
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
ISBN 13 : 0810865289
Total Pages : 386 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (18 download)
Download or read book Historical Dictionary of the Discovery and Exploration of the Pacific Islands written by Max Quanchi and published by Scarecrow Press. This book was released on 2005-10-18 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The South Seas, as this region used to be called, conjured up images of adventure, belles and savages, romance and fabulous fortunes, but the long voyages of discovery and exploration of the vast Pacific Ocean were really an exercise in amazing logistics, navigation, hard grit, shipwreck and pure luck. The motivations were scientific and geographic, but at the same time nationalistic and materialistic. A series on global exploration and discovery would not be complete without this book by Quanchi and Robson. It is ambitious and informative and includes the familiar names of Laperouse, Bougainville, Cook and Dampier, as well as the intriguing stories of the Bounty Mutiny, scurvy, and the mysterious Northwest Passage, Terra Australis Ignotia and Davis Land. There are entries on first contacts, ships, navigational instruments, mapping, and botany. The scene is carefully set in the introduction, the chronology spans several centuries, and the extensive bibliography offers a guide to further reading. There are more than just dry facts in this book. It has a whiff of salt air, the clash of empires, cross-cultural beach encounters and personal adventure.
Author : Ian Christopher Campbell
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Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (318 download)
Download or read book A History of the Pacific Islands written by Ian Christopher Campbell and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Ian Christopher Campbell
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Total Pages : 378 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Worlds Apart written by Ian Christopher Campbell and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This title spans the entire history of the Pacific Islands. From the first settlement by the native islanders, through the centuries of European contact, cultural influence and colonialism, to the coming of independence and more recent troubles since then. This title will appeal to the general reader with its non-academic style.
Author : Nicholas Thomas
Publisher : Basic Books
ISBN 13 : 1541620054
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (416 download)
Download or read book Voyagers written by Nicholas Thomas and published by Basic Books. This book was released on 2021-06-15 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An award-winning scholar explores the sixty-thousand-year history of the Pacific islands in this dazzling, deeply researched account. One of the Best Books of 2021 — Wall Street Journal The islands of Polynesia, Melanesia, and Micronesia stretch across a huge expanse of ocean and encompass a multitude of different peoples. Starting with Captain James Cook, the earliest European explorers to visit the Pacific were astounded and perplexed to find populations thriving thousands of miles from continents. Who were these people? From where did they come? And how were they able to reach islands dispersed over such vast tracts of ocean? In Voyagers, the distinguished anthropologist Nicholas Thomas charts the course of the seaborne migrations that populated the islands between Asia and the Americas from late prehistory onward. Drawing on the latest research, including insights gained from genetics, linguistics, and archaeology, Thomas provides a dazzling account of these long-distance migrations, the seagoing technologies that enabled them, and the societies they left in their wake.
Author : James Burney
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Total Pages : 496 pages
Book Rating : 4.M/5 ( download)
Download or read book A Chronological History of the Discoveries in the South Sea Or Pacific Ocean ...: 1620-1688 written by James Burney and published by . This book was released on 1813 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Denise Fisher
Publisher : ANU E Press
ISBN 13 : 1922144959
Total Pages : 366 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (221 download)
Download or read book France in the South Pacific written by Denise Fisher and published by ANU E Press. This book was released on 2013-05-23 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: France is a Pacific power, with three territories, a military presence, and extensive investments. Once seen by many as a colonial interloper in the South Pacific, by the early 2000s, after it ended nuclear testing in French Polynesia and negotiated transitional Accords responding to independence demands in New Caledonia, France seems to have become generally accepted as a regional partner, even if its efforts concentrate on its own territories rather than the independent island states. But Frances future in the region has yet to be secured. By 2014 it is to have handed over a set of agreed autonomies to the New Caledonian government, before an independence referendum process begins. Past experience suggests that a final resolution of the status of New Caledonia will be divisive and could lead once again to violent confrontations. In French Polynesia, calls continue for independence and for treatment under UN decolonisation procedures, which France opposes. Other island leaders are watching, so far putting faith in the Noumea Accord, but wary of the final stages. The issues and possible solutions are more complex than the French Pacific island population of 515,000 would suggest. Combining historical background with political and economic analysis, this comprehensive study offers vital insight into the intricate history -- and problematic future -- of several of Australias key neighbours in the Pacific and to the priorities and options of the European country that still rules them. It is aimed at policy-makers, scholars, journalists, businesspeople, and others who want to familiarise themselves with the issues as Frances role in the region is redefined in the years to come.
Author : David L. Hanlon
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
ISBN 13 : 0824883918
Total Pages : 355 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (248 download)
Download or read book Upon a Stone Altar written by David L. Hanlon and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 2019-09-30 with total page 355 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Upon a Stone Altar tells the history of a remarkable people who inhabit the island of Pohnpei in the Eastern Caroline Islands of Micronesia. Since the beginnings of intensive foreign contact, Pohnpei has endured numerous disruptive conflicts as well as attempts at colonial domination. Pohnpeians creatively adapted to change and today live successfully in a modern world not totally of their own making. Hanlon uses the vast body of oral tradition to relate the early history of Pohnpei, including the story of the building of a huge complex of artificial stone islets, Nan Madol.
Author : Sandra Montón-Subías
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319218859
Total Pages : 302 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (192 download)
Download or read book Archaeologies of Early Modern Spanish Colonialism written by Sandra Montón-Subías and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-02-22 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Archaeologies of Early Modern Spanish Colonialism illustrates how archaeology contributes to the knowledge of early modern Spanish colonialism and the "first globalization" of the 16th and 17th centuries. Through a range of specific case studies, this book offers a global comparative perspective on colonial processes and colonial situations, and the ways in which they were experienced by the different peoples. But we also focus on marginal “unsuccessful” colonial episodes. Thus, some of the papers deal with very brief colonial events, even “marginal” in some cases, considered “failures” by the Spanish crown or even undertook without their consent. These short events are usually overlooked by traditional historiography, which is why archaeological research is particularly important in these cases, since archaeological remains may be the only type of evidence that stands as proof of these colonial events. At the same time, it critically examines the construction of categories and discourses of colonialism, and questions the ideological underpinnings of the source material required to address such a vast issue. Accordingly, the book strikes a balance between theoretical, methodological and empirical issues, integrated to a lesser or greater extent in most of the chapters.
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Total Pages : 140 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)
Download or read book Pacific Studies : a Journal Devoted to the Study of the Pacific-its Islands and Adjacent Countries written by and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Matt K. Matsuda
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521887631
Total Pages : 453 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (218 download)
Download or read book Pacific Worlds written by Matt K. Matsuda and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2012-01-19 with total page 453 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Essential single-volume history of the Pacific region and the global interactions which define it.
