A History of the Pacific Islands
Passages through Tropical Time
1st Edition
Published on 14. September 2001
Book
Hardback
368 pages
978-0-7007-1293-9 (ISBN)
Description
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.
Reviews / Votes
"At any rate, this is a book scholars should, and will, appreciate; for is Passages Through Tropical Time is eclectic, it is also complex and rich, a welcome addition to the literature of, as Scarr puts it, the "ocean and its islands". - T. Damon Salesa, University of MichiganMore details
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 240 mm
Width: 161 mm
Thickness: 24 mm
Weight
716 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-7007-1293-9 (9780700712939)
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Previous edition
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09/1990
Palgrave Macmillan
€75.80
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Person
Deryck Scarr
Content
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