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- catalog abstract ""Deryck Scarr examines the Pacific Islands' indigenous social, economic and political systems and then places in context the post-sixteenth-century European 'discovery' of the Pacific. Cultural, political, trading, social and personal exchanges in Island worlds are described and analysed, from 1767 to the year 2000. Throughout the book, the Island world and its people on land and on the sea are held firmly in the foreground." -- from the dust jacket.".
- catalog contributor b12303716.
- catalog coverage "Islands of the Pacific History.".
- catalog coverage "Oceania History.".
- catalog created "2001.".
- catalog date "2001".
- catalog date "2001.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "2001.".
- catalog description ""Deryck Scarr examines the Pacific Islands' indigenous social, economic and political systems and then places in context the post-sixteenth-century European 'discovery' of the Pacific. Cultural, political, trading, social and personal exchanges in Island worlds are described and analysed, from 1767 to the year 2000. Throughout the book, the Island world and its people on land and on the sea are held firmly in the foreground." -- from the dust jacket.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 300-310) and index.".
- catalog description "Sea of uprearing billows -- 'Big Waqa, great labour' : oceanic worlds on shore and sea -- Vaka from Tangaroa : European exploration from the sixteenth century -- Schooner on the reef : cultural exchanges in island worlds, 1800-1860 -- Ages of passing innocence : lives, commerce and politics in Oceania 1860-1914 -- 'Bout ship and try again : worlds' impingement and colonial orders 1914-1945 -- Finale 1945-2000.".
- catalog extent "xviii, 323 p. :".
- catalog identifier "0700712933".
- catalog issued "2001".
- catalog issued "2001.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Richmond : Curzon,".
- catalog spatial "Islands of the Pacific History.".
- catalog spatial "Oceania History.".
- catalog subject "990 21".
- catalog subject "DU28.3 .S29 2001".
- catalog tableOfContents "Sea of uprearing billows -- 'Big Waqa, great labour' : oceanic worlds on shore and sea -- Vaka from Tangaroa : European exploration from the sixteenth century -- Schooner on the reef : cultural exchanges in island worlds, 1800-1860 -- Ages of passing innocence : lives, commerce and politics in Oceania 1860-1914 -- 'Bout ship and try again : worlds' impingement and colonial orders 1914-1945 -- Finale 1945-2000.".
- catalog title "A history of the Pacific Islands : passages through tropical time / Deryck Scarr.".
- catalog type "History. fast".
- catalog type "text".