A History of the Pacific Islands
$21.95, £12.95 paperback
978-0-520-06901-5
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239 pages,
February 1990, Only available in Include North America, Europe, Japan
Categories: History; Asian History; Pacific Rim Studies
February 1990, Only available in Include North America, Europe, Japan
Categories: History; Asian History; Pacific Rim Studies
"Dr. Campbell's awareness of the importance of the active roles which Pacific islanders played in the shaping of the histories of their own countries is evident throughout: he has examined, whenever he could, historical events and processes from the point of view and interests of the islanders concerned. No other work has done this, and that in itself makes Dr. Campbell's book an important contribution to Pacific history."—Dr. Malama Meleisea, Director of the Macmillan Brown Centre for Pacific Studies, University of Canterbury
History of the Pacific Islands marks the first time in forty years that a balanced and succinct introduction to the peoples of the Pacific islands has been made avaliable to students, travellers, and scholars. Dr. Ian Campbell's informed and balanced perspective illuminates the development of the rich and fascinating variety of cultures of the Pacific islanders and their experience with intensive European contact during the last two hundred years. A History of the Pacific Islandsis a bright, lively survey of the kind not attempted since Douglas Oliver's celebrated The Pacific Islands was first published in 1951.