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Title:
A history of the Pacific Islands / Steven Roger Fischer.
Author:
Fischer, Steven R.
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Publication Information:
Basingstoke, Hampshire [England] ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2013.

©2013
Call Number:
DU28.3 .F57 2013
Abstract:
"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 follows the development of the region, from New Guinea's earliest settlement to the creation of the modern Pacific states"--Publisher's description.
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Edition:
2nd ed.
ISBN:
9780230362680

9780230362697
Series:
Palgrave essential histories

Palgrave essential histories.
Physical Description:
xxxii, 331 pages : maps ; 23 cm
General Note:
New Zealand author.
Contents:
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.'
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