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White Pacific : U.S. Imperialism and Black Slavery in the South Seas After the Civil War
Gerald Horne
Paperback - $59.95
Worldwide supplies of sugar and cotton were impacted dramatically as the U.S. Civil War dragged on. New areas of production entered these lucrative markets, particularly in the South Pacific, and plantation agriculture grew substantially in disparate ...
Blue Latitudes : Boldly Going Where Captain Cook Has Gone Before
Tony Horwitz
Paperback - $26.95
Two centuries after James Cook's epic voyages of discovery, Horwitz, a Pulitzer Prize winner and author of "Confederates in the Attic" takes readers on a wild ride across hemispheres and centuries to recapture the Captain's adventures and explore his ...
Nature, Culture, and History : The Knowing of Oceania
K. R. Howe
Paperback - $40.95
Explores the changing ways in which Pacific Islanders have been seen and represented by outsiders over the last 200 years. The Pacific Islands has been a testing ground for various Western ideas and ideologies and the author looks at this long intell ...
An Address to the Inhabitants of the Colonies Established in New South Wales and Norfolk Island
Richard Johnson
Paperback - $26.95
Rationales of Ownership : Transactions and Claims to Ownership in Contemporary Papua New Guinea
Lawrence Kalinoe
Hardcover - $97.95
What constitutes a resource, and how do people make claims on them? Contributions from social anthropology and law in this major research project offer conceptual clarification in the context of material, intellectual, and cultural resources in Papua ...
Rationales of Ownership : Transactions and Claims to Ownership in Contemporary Papua New Guinea
Lawrence Kalinoe
Paperback - $38.95
What constitutes a resource, and how do people make claims on them? In a burgeoning discourse of property, the authors offer conceptual clarification in the context of material, intellectual and cultural resources in Papua New Guinea.
On the Road of the Winds : An Archaeological History of the Pacific Islands Before European Contact
Patrick Vinton Kirch
Paperback - $77.95
"Pat Kirch summarizes the extraordinary explosion of the last two decades in our knowledge of Pacific prehistory, an explosion to which he has contributed more than anyone. His synthesis brings together results from all of the subfields of anthropolo ...
Broken Waves : A History of the Fiji Islands in the Twentieth Century
Brij V. Lal
Hardcover - $59.95
Pacific Paradises : The Discovery of Tahiti and Hawaii
Trevor Lummis
Hardcover - $49.95
The reality of the colonisation of Tahiti and Hawaii is a shameful catalogue of misunderstanding and betrayal. Western society now embraces the qualities held by the noble savages.