Author: June L. WhittakerPublisher: Milton, Q. : Jacaranda
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 584
Book Description
Documents and Readings in New Guinea History
Author: June L. WhittakerPublisher: Milton, Q. : Jacaranda
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 584
Book Description
Readings in New Guinea History
Author: Peter BiskupPublisher: Sydney : Angus and Robertson
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 486
Book Description
Historical Dictionary of the Discovery and Exploration of the Pacific Islands
Author: Max QuanchiPublisher: Scarecrow Press
ISBN: 0810865289
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 386
Book Description
The South Seas, as this region used to be called, conjured up images of adventure, belles and savages, romance and fabulous fortunes, but the long voyages of discovery and exploration of the vast Pacific Ocean were really an exercise in amazing logistics, navigation, hard grit, shipwreck and pure luck. The motivations were scientific and geographic, but at the same time nationalistic and materialistic. A series on global exploration and discovery would not be complete without this book by Quanchi and Robson. It is ambitious and informative and includes the familiar names of Laperouse, Bougainville, Cook and Dampier, as well as the intriguing stories of the Bounty Mutiny, scurvy, and the mysterious Northwest Passage, Terra Australis Ignotia and Davis Land. There are entries on first contacts, ships, navigational instruments, mapping, and botany. The scene is carefully set in the introduction, the chronology spans several centuries, and the extensive bibliography offers a guide to further reading. There are more than just dry facts in this book. It has a whiff of salt air, the clash of empires, cross-cultural beach encounters and personal adventure.
New Guinea
Author: Clive MoorePublisher: University of Hawaii Press
ISBN: 0824844130
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
New Guinea, the world's largest tropical island, is a land of great contrasts, ranging from small glaciers on its highest peaks to broad mangrove swamps in its lowlands and hundreds of smaller islands and coral atolls along its coasts. Divided between two nations, the island and its neighboring archipelagos form Indonesia’s Papua Province (or Irian Jaya) and the independent nation of Papua New Guinea, both former European colonies. Most books on New Guinea have been guided by these and other divisions, separating east from west, prehistoric from historic, precontact from postcontact, colonial from postcolonial. This is the first work to consider New Guinea and its 40,000-year history in its entirety. The volume opens with a look at the Melanesian region and argues that interlocking exchange systems and associated human interchanges are the "invisible government" through which New Guinea societies operate. Succeeding chapters review the history of encounters between outsiders and New Guinea's populations. They consider the history of Malay involvement with New Guinea over the past two thousand years, demonstrating the extent to which west New Guinea in particular was incorporated into Malay trading and raiding networks prior to Western contact. The impact of colonial rule, economic and social change, World War II, decolonization, and independence are discussed in the final chapter.
A Pictorial History of New Guinea
Author: Noel GashPublisher: Milton, Q. : Jacaranda
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
A history of New Guinea recording the ancient migrations, the early European explorers, and the reconstruction following World War II.
Imagining the Other
Author: Regis Tove StellaPublisher: University of Hawaii Press
ISBN: 0824862929
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 265
Book Description
Much has been written about Papua New Guinea over the last century and too often in ways that legitimated or served colonial interests through highly pejorative and racist descriptions of Papua New Guineans. Paying special attention to early travel literature, works of fiction, and colonial reports, laws, and legislation, Regis Tove Stella reveals the complex and persistent network of discursive strategies deployed to subjugate the land and its people.
The Study of History in Papua and New Guinea
Author: Kenneth Stanley InglisPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 44
Book Description
Documents and Correspondence on New Guinea's Boundaries
Author: Paul W. Van der VeurPublisher: Canberra : Australian National University Press
ISBN:
Category : Papua New Guinea
Languages : en
Pages : 232
Book Description
New Guinea
Author: Clive MoorePublisher: University of Hawaii Press
ISBN: 9780824824853
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 318
Book Description
New Guinea, the world's largest tropical island, is a land of great contrasts, ranging from small glaciers on its highest peaks to broad mangrove swamps in its lowlands and hundreds of smaller islands and coral atolls along its coasts. Divided between two nations, the island and its neighboring archipelagos form Indonesia’s Papua Province (or Irian Jaya) and the independent nation of Papua New Guinea, both former European colonies. Most books on New Guinea have been guided by these and other divisions, separating east from west, prehistoric from historic, precontact from postcontact, colonial from postcolonial. This is the first work to consider New Guinea and its 40,000-year history in its entirety. The volume opens with a look at the Melanesian region and argues that interlocking exchange systems and associated human interchanges are the "invisible government" through which New Guinea societies operate. Succeeding chapters review the history of encounters between outsiders and New Guinea's populations. They consider the history of Malay involvement with New Guinea over the past two thousand years, demonstrating the extent to which west New Guinea in particular was incorporated into Malay trading and raiding networks prior to Western contact. The impact of colonial rule, economic and social change, World War II, decolonization, and independence are discussed in the final chapter.
Law, History, Colonialism
Author: Diane Elizabeth KirkbyPublisher: Manchester University Press
ISBN: 9780719060663
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
This work brings together the disciplines of law, history and post-colonial studies in an exploration of imperialism. In essays, from a range of disciplinary backgrounds, it offers perspectives on the length and breadth of empire.