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A traveller's history of New Zealand and the South Pacific islands / John H. Chambers.

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  • ISBN: 1566565065
  • ISBN: 9781566565066
  • Physical Description: xii, 400 pages : illustrations, maps ; 20 cm.
  • Edition: 1st American edition
  • Publisher: New York : Interlink Books, 2004.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 359-362) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:
Introduction: Waterworld 1 -- Chapter 1 A Brief History of the Physical Environment 7 -- Chapter 2 Early South Pacific Cultures 24 -- Chapter 3 Special Cases: Easter Islanders, Fijians, Maori 52 -- Chapter 4 Contact and Commerce: the South Pacific Islands to around 1900 77 -- Chapter 5 Christianity and Colonization: the South Pacific Islands to around 1900 101 -- Chapter 6 Maori Musket Wars, Christianity, Colonization: New Zealand to 1840 125 -- Chapter 7 Settlements and Wars: New Zealand to 1872 148 -- Chapter 8 South Pacific Britannia: New Zealand 1861 to the Early 1900s 171 -- Chapter 9 Making a Nation: New Zealand to 1918 193 -- Chapter 10 New Zealand from 1920s to 1945 217 -- Chapter 11 Prosperous South Pacific Nation: New Zealand 1945 to the 1980s 238 -- Chapter 12 Radical Changes at Home and Abroad: New Zealand post-1980 261 -- Chapter 13 'The Pacific Way': South Pacific Islands since 1901 283 -- Appendix 1 Firewalking in Fiji 321 -- Appendix 2 Treaty of Waitangi 324 -- Appendix 3 Haka: A Living Tradition 326 -- Appendix 4 Moko: Maori Facial Tattoo 331 -- Appendix 5 Largest Islands, South Pacific 335 -- Monarchs, Governors, Presidents, Prime Ministers 336 -- Historical Gazetteer 363 -- Waterworld: New Zealand in the Centre of the Oceans 2 -- Polynesia, Melanesia and Micronesia 5 -- Physical Map of New Zealand 16 -- Origins and Voyages of the Polynesians 31 -- Modern New Zealand 276 -- Modern Fiji 296 -- New Zealand and South Pacific Islands: Exclusive Economic Zones 308 -- Diagram: The Creation of a Coral Atoll 14.
Subject:
Oceania > History.
New Zealand > History.

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