Deryck Scarr

A History of the Pacific Islands (eBook, PDF)

Passages through Tropical Time

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

A book about the past and present Pacific Islands, wide-ranging in time and space spanning the centuries from the first settlement of the islands until the present day.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 323
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. Dezember 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781136837890
• Artikelnr.: 40172154

Autorenporträt

Deryck Scarr

Inhaltsangabe

1: Sea of Uprearing Billows
1: Sea-Lanes
2: Defining an Ocean
2: 'Big Waqa, Great Labour'
3: Darkness from the Sea
4: The Way to Atuona
5: Destinies Ashore
3: Vaka from Tangaroa
6: Unpacific Seas, Ultimate Landfalls
7: Oceania Charted, Humankind Redefined 1767-1793
4: Schooner on the Reef
8: Mirrors and Mobility
9: Money, Rim Ports, Shipowners and Time
10: Literature, Death, Marriage, Dependence and Island Mind
5: Ages of Passing Innocence
11: Credit and Copra Kings
12: Power, Labour, Production, Outport and Identity
13: Not from Mountain but Canoe
14: Ports, Passage-Making, Mortality and Moderated Morality in the Labour Traffic
6: 'Bout Ship and Try Again
15: Ironic Gestures, Senses of Self and Survival
16: Romance and Realities
17: Visions and Contradictions: The Early Twentieth Century
18: Shipping Companies, Competition and Japan's Dull Steel 1900-1940
19: Islands in Wartime: Like Destroyers in Line Ahead
Finale 1945-2000
20: Postwar Worlds, Retrospectively