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A history of the Pacific Islands /

This 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 nearly 50,000 years of human presence in an area which comprises one-third of our planet - Melanesia, Micronesia and Polynesia - the narrative...

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Autore principale: Fischer, Steven R.
Natura: Printed Book
Pubblicazione: England: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013.
Edizione:2nd ed.
Serie:Palgrave essential histories
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Accesso online:https://books.google.co.in/books?id=LhQdBQAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_ge_summary_r&cad=0#v=onepage&q&f=false
Sommario:
  • The first islanders
  • Melanesians, Micronesians, Polynesians
  • The European trespass
  • The second colonization
  • New Pacific identities
  • Pacific islanders in transit
  • Reinventing Pacific Islands
  • The 'New Pacific.'