Culture Contact in the Pacific

Name: Culture Contact in the Pacific
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ISBN: 9780521422840

ISBN-10: 0521422841

ISBN-13: 9780521422840

Edition: 1993

Authors: Max Quanchi, Ron Adams

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Book details

List price: $87.95
Copyright year: 1993
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 3/22/1993
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 204
Size: 8.23" wide x 11.02" long x 0.43" tall
Weight: 0.946
Language: English

Ron Adams has contributed to many truck books and articles in trucking magazines, and this will be his sixth book he has authored by himself. He has been collecting truck literature and photographing trucks for over 40 years and has a vast knowledge of the trucking industry.



Acknowledgements


A note for teachers



Pre-European Pacific Society



The origins of pacific peoples



Pre-European societies in the Pacific Islands



European 'Discovery' of the Pacific



European discovery or multiple discoveries



Being discovered: perceptions and control of strangers



Islanders and Europeans in the Nineteenth Century



Trade interaction



Religious interaction



Labour recruiting and indenture



Response and change in polynesian societies



From Colonialism to Independence



Patterns of colonial rule



The path to independence



Non-colonial influences and issues



The Changing Image of the Pacific



The changing image of the Pacific


Appendices


Index