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Author : Mary Davis Wallis
Publisher : [email protected]
ISBN 13 : 9789820200951
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (9 download)
Download or read book The Fiji and New Caledonia Journals of Mary Wallis, 1851-1853 written by Mary Davis Wallis and published by [email protected]. This book was released on 1994 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : David Stanley
Publisher : David Stanley
ISBN 13 : 9781566913362
Total Pages : 372 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (133 download)
Download or read book Fiji written by David Stanley and published by David Stanley. This book was released on 2001 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Fiji handbook provides a thought-provoking introduction to Fiji's turbulent history, diverse population, and cultural riches. Travelers gain from seasoned traveler Stanley's extensive descriptions and evaluations of Fiji's lodgings, from luxury resorts to simple hotels on the beach. His comprehensive reporting of outdoor recreation makes it simple to locate the perfect activities, such as scuba diving, snorkeling, surfing, sailing, kayaking, hiking, camping, and golf.
Author : Marshall Sahlins
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226734005
Total Pages : 349 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (267 download)
Download or read book Apologies to Thucydides written by Marshall Sahlins and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2004-12 with total page 349 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Publisher Description
Author : John Spurway
Publisher : ANU Press
ISBN 13 : 1925021181
Total Pages : 735 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (25 download)
Download or read book Ma'afu, Prince of Tonga, Chief of Fiji written by John Spurway and published by ANU Press. This book was released on 2015-02-23 with total page 735 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Enele Ma`afu, son of Aleamotu`a, Tu`i Kanokupolu, grew up during a time of unprecedented social and political change in Tonga following the advent of Christianity. Moving to Lau, Fiji, in 1847 when he was about 21, he skilfully exploited kinship links to establish a power base there and in eastern Cakaudrove. His achievements were recognised in 1853 when his cousin King Tupou I appointed Ma`afu as Governor of the Tongans in Fiji. Acting as a putative champion of the lotu, Ma`afu undertook successful military campaigns elsewhere in Fiji and, after adding the Yasayasa Moala and the Exploring Isles to the nascent Lauan state, he was able to establish the Tovata ko Lau, a union of Lau, Cakaudrove and Bua, with himself as head. His power was formally recognised in 1869 when the Lauan chiefs appointed him as Tui Lau, a new title in the polity of Fiji. Ma`afu was now able to challenge Cakobau for the mastery of Fiji. After serving as Viceroy during the farcical planter oligarchy known as the Kingdom of Fiji, Ma`afu underwent a severe humiliation when, in order to maintain his power in Lau, he was forced to accede to the wishes of Fiji’s other great chiefs in offering their islands to Great Britain. He would end his days as Roko Tui Lau, a ‘subordinate administrator’ in the Crown Colony of Fiji, presiding over a province characterised by corruption and maladministration but where the legacy of his earlier innovative land reforms has endured.
Author : Joan Druett
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1451688431
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (516 download)
Download or read book Hen Frigates written by Joan Druett and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2012-02-21 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A "hen frigate," traditionally, was any ship with the captain's wife on board. Hen frigates were miniature worlds -- wildly colorful, romantic, and dangerous. Here are the dramatic, true stories of what the remarkable women on board these vessels encountered on their often amazing voyages: romantic moonlit nights on deck, debilitating seasickness, terrifying skirmishes with pirates, disease-bearing rats, and cockroaches as big as a man's slipper. And all of that while living with the constant fear of gales, hurricanes, typhoons, collisions, and fire at sea. Interweaving first-person accounts from letters and journals in and around the lyrical narrative of a sea journey, maritime historian Joan Druett brings life to these stories. We can almost feel for ourselves the fear, pain, anger, love, and heartbreak of these courageous women. Lavishly illustrated, this breathtaking book transports us to the golden age of sail.
Author : Nancy Shoemaker
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 1501740350
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (17 download)
Download or read book Pursuing Respect in the Cannibal Isles written by Nancy Shoemaker and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2019-11-15 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Full of colorful details and engrossing stories, Pursuing Respect in the Cannibal Isles shows that the aspirations of individual Americans to be recognized as people worthy of others' respect was a driving force in the global extension of United States influence shortly after the nation's founding. Nancy Shoemaker contends that what she calls extraterritorial Americans constituted the vanguard of a vast, early US global expansion. Using as her site of historical investigation nineteenth-century Fiji, the "cannibal isles" of American popular culture, she uncovers stories of Americans looking for opportunities to rise in social status and enhance their sense of self. Prior to British colonization in 1874, extraterritorial Americans had, she argues, as much impact on Fiji as did the British. While the American economy invested in the extraction of sandalwood and sea slugs as resources to sell in China, individuals who went to Fiji had more complicated, personal objectives. Pursuing Respect in the Cannibal Isles considers these motivations through the lives of the three Americans who left the deepest imprint on Fiji: a runaway whaleman who settled in the islands, a sea captain's wife, and a merchant. Shoemaker's book shows how ordinary Americans living or working overseas found unusual venues where they could show themselves worthy of others' respect—others' approval, admiration, or deference.
Author : Satya Colpani
Publisher : [email protected]
ISBN 13 : 9789820201170
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (11 download)
Download or read book Beyond the Black Waters written by Satya Colpani and published by [email protected]. This book was released on 1996 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Bronwen Douglas
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134410859
Total Pages : 382 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (344 download)
Download or read book Across the Great Divide written by Bronwen Douglas and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-12-19 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Across the Great Divide tracks a Pacific historian's fruitful, ambivalent engagements with History and Anthropology, anticipating experiments in each discipline with the other's theories and praxis. The revised and new essays comprising this collection provide systematic critiques of aspects of received scholarly wisdom about Oceania and are linked by reflexive commentaries addressing recent postcolonial concerns. A varied but coherent set of ethnographic and historical narratives about colonial encounters in Island Melanesia is informed by particular critical focus on the paradoxes and politics of knowing indigenous pasts through colonial texts.
Author : Eric Jay Dolin
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0871404338
Total Pages : 433 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (714 download)
Download or read book When America First Met China: An Exotic History of Tea, Drugs, and Money in the Age of Sail written by Eric Jay Dolin and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2012-09-10 with total page 433 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Traces the history of the relationship between America and China back to its earliest days, when the United States traded with China for furs, opium, and rare sea cucumbers, but left an ecological and human rights disaster that still reverberates today.
Author : Jürg Wassmann
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000323889
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (3 download)
Download or read book Pacific Answers to Western Hegemony written by Jürg Wassmann and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-09-02 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The destruction of local identity through the relentless encroachment of a 'McDonald-ized' cultural imperialism is a global phenomenon. Yet the reactions of Pacific peoples to this Western hegemony are diverse and encourage the creation of independent cultural identities through sports and games, political mediations, tourism, media and filmmaking, and the struggles for land rights and titles, particularly in Australia.This book, based on extensive fieldwork, addresses a subject of great immediacy to peoples of the Pacific Island nations. It fills an important gap in existing ethnographic literature on the region and confidently navigates what had previously been considered uncharted, even unchartable, waters -- that wide sea between the classic ethnography of Oceania and contemporary anthropology's theoretical concerns with global relations and transnational cultures. Its breadth, rigour, and timely contribution to post-colonial politics in Oceania are certain to ensure that this book will provide an enduring contribution to the field.
Author : Chris J. Thomas
Publisher : University of Alabama Press
ISBN 13 : 0817320946
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (173 download)
Download or read book Pacific Possessions written by Chris J. Thomas and published by University of Alabama Press. This book was released on 2021-05-25 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Reframes Polynesia and Melanesia through analysis of nineteenth-century travel writing"--
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)
Download or read book Asian/Pacific Book Development written by and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Geoffrey Richard Clark
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Archaeology of Lapita Dispersal in Oceania written by Geoffrey Richard Clark and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Papers from the Fourth Lapita Conference held in Canberra. Lapita archaeology is of fundamental importance to understanding the Pacific since it unearths information about the first people to establish themselves beyond the Solomon Islands to as far east as Samoa around 3000 years ago.
Author : Peter J Kitson
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000561275
Total Pages : 486 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (5 download)
Download or read book Nineteenth-Century Travels, Explorations and Empires, Part II vol 6 written by Peter J Kitson and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2021-12-16 with total page 486 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of writings on travels undertaken in the Victorian era. The texts collected in these volumes show how 19th century travel literature served the interests of empire by promoting British political and economic values that translated into manufacturing goods.
Author : Garry Trompf
Publisher : Praeger
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 728 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (318 download)
Download or read book Religions of Melanesia written by Garry Trompf and published by Praeger. This book was released on 2006-09-30 with total page 728 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Melansia boasts over one-quarter of the world's distinct religions and presents the most complex religious panorama on earth. The region is famous for its unusual new religious movements that have adapted traditional beliefs to modernity in surprising ways. As the first bibliographical survey to comprehensively cover the entire region, Religions of Melanesia is an invaluable research aid for anyone interested in this growing field. Trompf's work is a complete listing of scholarly publications and provides readable and concise descriptions that will clearly guide the researcher toward the most relevant sources. This survey covers 2188 entries organized topically and regionally. Trompf covers such subjects as traditional and modern belief systems and the emergent indigenous Christianity that has taken root. Regional coverage includes Irian Jaya, Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands, Vanuatu, New Caledonia, and Fiji.
Author : Robyn Jones
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (318 download)
Download or read book Fiji written by Robyn Jones and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With this indispensable guide at your side, you will discover the true Fiji. Share in lovo feasts, hike on volcanic islands and explore this remarkable archipelago below and above the waterline. - 43 detailed maps, including a full-colour country map - handy Fijian and Fijian-Indian language guide - the best places to swim, snorkel, dive and surf - practical transport advice for island-hoppers - where to rest your body and mind - from simple island bure to lush resorts
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 190 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 1996 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
