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a history of the Pacific Islands
Ian C. Campbell
391 p
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Table of contents: 1. The people of Oceania -- 2. Papuan and Austronesian colonisation -- 3. The age of European discovery -- 4. Polynesia : trade and social change -- 5. Polynesia : missionaries and kingdoms -- 6. Polynesia : European settlement and the later kingdoms -- 7. Melanesia : sandalwood and 'blackbirding' -- 8. Melanesia : missionaries and colonists -- 9. Micronesia : colonisation, commerce and Christianity -- 10. Imperialist intervention -- 11. After a century of contact -- 12. Early experiments in colonial government. 1, The British Empire -- 13. Early experiments in colonial government. 2, France, Germany and the United States -- 14. Civilising colonialism : the League of Nations experiment -- 15. Certainty and insecurity 1914-15 -- 16. Planning a new world -- 17. Independence bestowed -- 18. Independence retarded -- 19. Post-colonial trends -- 20. Democratic variations
Summary: Spans the history of the Pacific Islands from the first settlement by Pacific Islanders through the centuries of European contact, cultural influence and colonialism, to the coming of independence and the developments since then
First published as: A history of the Pacific Islands