Pacific Worlds - A History of Seas, Peoples, and Cultures by Matt K Matsuda

$25.00 NZD

Category: Pacific | Reading Level: very good

Asia, the Pacific Islands and the coasts of the Americas have long been studied separately. This essential single-volume history of the Pacific traces the global interactions and remarkable peoples that have connected these regions with each other and with Europe and the Indian Ocean, for millennia. Fro m ancient canoe navigators, monumental civilisations, pirates and seaborne empires, to the rise of nuclear testing and global warming, Matt Matsuda ranges across the frontiers of colonial history, anthropology and Pacific Rim economics and politics, piecing together a history of the region. The book identifies and draws together the defining threads and extraordinary personal narratives which have contributed to this history, showing how localised contacts and contests have often blossomed into global struggles over colonialism, tourism and the rise of Asian economies. Drawing on Asian, Oceanian, European, American, ancient and modern narratives, the author assembles a fascinating Pacific region from a truly global perspective. ...Show more

Cook Bicentenary Expedition in the South-West Pacific 1969 by Ronal Fraser (ed.)

$20.00 NZD

Category: Pacific | Reading Level: very good

Years Of The Pooh-bah - A Cook Islands History by Dick Scott

$40.00 NZD

Category: Pacific | Reading Level: good-very good

Colonialism, Development and Independence by H. C. Brookfield

$14.00 NZD

Category: Pacific | Reading Level: good-very good

This 1972 book takes Western Pacific island territories as a case study in the behavioural understanding of colonialism. It is argued that colonialism has many forms, and is not ended with the lowering of the metropolitan flag. It represents a conflict of systems, as worldwide forces impinge on local sy stems and seek to bring them into an essentially dependent relationship with metropolitan centres. The drive for independence is seen as the opposition to these forces, beginning with resistance to invasion, continuing through efforts to adapt the innovations and manage their impact, and going on to modern forms of political and economic nationalism. The book is based on field work and documentary research extending more than ten years; the emphasis on field evidence is unusual in a book of this nature. ...Show more

Visions and Realities : France in the Pacific 1695-1995 by John Dunmore

$20.00 NZD

Category: Pacific | Reading Level: very good

Blood on Their Banner - Nationalist Struggles in the South Pacific by David Robie

$12.00 NZD

Category: Pacific | Reading Level: very good

With the Old Breed - The World War Two Pacific Classic by E B Sledge

$12.00 NZD

Category: World War II | Reading Level: very good

This was a brutish, primitive hatred, as characteristic of the horror of war in the Pacific as the palm trees and the islands... Landing on the beach at Peleliu in 1944 as twenty-year-old new recruit to the US Marines, Eugene Sledge can only try desperately to survive. At Peleliu and Okinawa - two of t he fiercest and filthiest Pacific battles of WWII - he witnesses the dehumanising brutality displayed by both sides and the animal hatred that each soldier has for his enemy. During temporary lapses in the fighting, conditions on the islands mean that the Marines often can't wash, stay dry, dig latrines, or even find time to eat. Suffering from constant fear, fatigue, and filth, the struggle of simply living in a combat zone is utterly debilitating. Yet despite horrendous conditions Sledge finds time to keep notes that he would later turn into a book. Described as one of the finest memoirs to emerge from any war, With the Old Breed tells with compassion and honesty of the cruelty, bravery and deaths of the men he fought alongside, and of his own journey from patriotic innocence to batte-scarred veteran. ...Show more

After Moruroa - France in the South Pacific by Nic McLellan; Jean Chesneaux

$14.00 NZD

Category: Pacific | Reading Level: very good

After Moruroa looks at the history of French colonialism in the Pacific--from the French Revolution to the Matignon Accords in New Caledonia and the end of nuclear testing at Moruroa and Fangataufa atolls. What is the future for France's Pacific colonies? As France integrates further with the European Union, can it retain ties with Pacific islands on the other side of the world? How will political changes in New Caledonia and a growing independence movement in French Polynesia impact on Paris? Nic Maclellan and Jean Chesneaux review the social, cultural, political and environmental impact of France's presence in the region. They document French policy over two centuries, drawing on sources from Europe, Australia and the Pacific. With France's "Grand Design" for the Pacific under challenge today, this authoritative study looks at the future for the South Pacific--after Moruroa. Nic Maclellan has worked as a journalist, researcher and community development worker in the Pacific islands. He currently works with the Pacific Concerns Resource Centre (PCRC) in Suva, Fiji. He has written widely on development, environment and disarmament issues, and is co-author, with Jean Chesneaux, of La France dans le Pacifique: De Bougainville Moruroa (Editions la D couverte, Paris, 1992). Jean Chesneaux is emeritus professor of Asian and Pacific History at the Sorbonne (Universit de Paris VII). He has traveled extensively the Pacific region since 1970. His recent publications include: Transpacifiques (Editions la D couverte, Paris, 1987), Brave Modern World (Thames and Hudson, London, 1993) and Abiter le temps (Bayard, Paris, 1996). ...Show more

Cannibal Cargoes by Hector Holthouse

$8.00 NZD

Category: Pacific | Reading Level: good

On the Road of the Winds - An archaeological history of the Pacific Islands before European Contact by Patrick Vinton Kirch

$20.00 NZD

Category: Pacific | Reading Level: very good

Fenua Imi - The Pacific in History and Imaginary by Martin Edmond

$12.00 NZD

Category: Pacific | Reading Level: very good

A description of the history of the Pacific Region and its people.

The Fiji and New Caledonia Journals of Mary Wallis 1851-1853 by Mary Wallis; David Routledge (ed.)

$16.00 NZD

Category: Pacific | Reading Level: very good

The thirteen essays presented here offer a refreshingly new portrait of geography in the Pacific: new perspectives, new research priorities, a refusal to be constrained by traditional disciplinary boundaries or by some imaginary frontier between pure and applied endeavour, a blending of scientific inves tigation and of individual experience. ...Show more