A History of the Pacific Islands: Passages through Tropical Time
by Scarr,DeryckFormat: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 2001-09-14
Publisher(s): RoutledgeCurzon
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Summary
This is a book about the past and present Pacific Islands, wide-ranging in time and space. It spans the centuries from the first, pre-European, Melanesian and Polynesian settlement of Islands from New Guinea to Tahiti and Easter Island, until the present day. Indigenous social, economic and political systems are examined and then the post-sixteenth-century European 'discovery' of the Pacific. Cultural, political, trading, social and personal exchanges in island worlds are analysed and described, from 1767 to the year 2000.
Table of Contents
| List of Maps | |
| List of Illustrations | |
| Orthography | |
| Glossary | |
| Preface | |
| Sea of Uprearing Billows | |
| Sea-Lanes: An overview | p. 3 |
| Defining an Ocean | p. 10 |
| 'Big Waqa, Great Labour': Oceanic Worlds on Shore and Sea | |
| Darkness from the Sea | p. 21 |
| The Way to Atuona | p. 33 |
| Destinies Ashore | p. 44 |
| Vaka from Tangaroa: European Exploration from the Sixteenth Century | |
| Unpacific Seas, Ultimate Landfalls | p. 57 |
| Oceania Charted, Humankind Redefined 1767-1793 | p. 73 |
| Schooner on the Reef: Cultural Exchanges in Island Worlds 1800-1860 | |
| Mirrors and Mobility | p. 87 |
| Money, Rim Ports, Shipowners and Time | p. 104 |
| Literature, Death, Marriage, Dependence and Island Mind | p. 114 |
| Ages of Passing Innocence: Lives, Commerce and Politics in Oceania 1860-1914 | |
| Credit and Copra Kings | p. 129 |
| Power, Labour, Production, Outport and Identity: The Fiji case 1871 to 1919 | p. 141 |
| Not from Mountain but Canoe | p. 155 |
| Ports, Passage-Making Mortality and Moderated Morality in the Labour Traffic | p. 162 |
| 'Bout Ship and Try Again: Worlds' Impingement and Colonial Orders 1914-1945 | |
| Ironic Gestures, Senses of Self and Survival | p. 183 |
| Romance and Realities | p. 191 |
| Visions and Contradictions: The Early Twentieth Century | p. 204 |
| Shipping Companies, Competition and Japan's Dull Steel 1900-1940 | p. 217 |
| Islands in Wartime: Like Destroyers in Line Ahead | p. 233 |
| Finale 1945-2000 | |
| Postwar Worlds, Retrospectively | p. 259 |
| Notes | p. 273 |
| Bibliography | p. 300 |
| Index | p. 311 |
| Table of Contents provided by Blackwell. All Rights Reserved. |
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