History of the Pacific Islands - Passages Through Tropical Time

Zusatztext "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 Michigan Informationen zum Autor Deryck Scarr Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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

Product details

• Authors: Deryck Scarr, Scarr Deryck
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 07.04.2015
• EAN: 9781138879133
• ISBN: 978-1-138-87913-3
• No. of pages: 323
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Social sciences, law, business > Ethnology > Folklore; Ethnic Studies, HISTORY / Social History, Social & cultural history, HISTORY / Asia / Southeast Asia, HISTORY / Oceania, South East Asia, Social and cultural history, Australasian & Pacific history, Asian History, Australasian and Pacific history, Oceania, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Cultural & Ethnic Studies / Asian Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Cultural & Ethnic Studies / General, Ethnic studies / Ethnicity, Oceania / Pacific Islands