Grass Huts and Warehouses

Caroline Ralston

• Paperback | Engels | Pacific Studies
• A pioneering study of early trade and beach communities in the Pacific Islands and first published in 1977, this book provides historians with an ambi... Lees meer

Managing Modernity in the Western Pacific

• Paperback | Engels | Pacific Studies
• Fast money schemes in Papua New Guinea, collectivities in rural Solomon Islands, gambling in the Cook Islands, and the Vanuatu tax haven--all feature ... Lees meer

The Samoan Tangle

Paul Kennedy

• Paperback | Engels | Pacific Studies
• When Hugh Laracy reviewed this book in The Journal of Pacific History in 1978 he rightly described it as the 'product of monumental research'. Explori... Lees meer

Workers in Bondage

Kay Saunders

• Paperback | Engels | Pacific Studies
• Based on thorough documentary research in archives and newspapers, Workers in Bondage begins with the origins of servitude during the convict era in Q... Lees meer

Australians in Papua New Guinea 1960-1975

• Paperback | Engels | Pacific Studies
• " Australians in Papua New Guinea , provides a history of the late Australian years in Papua New Guinea through the eyes of thirteen Australian and fo... Lees meer

They Came for Sandalwood

Dorothy Shineberg

• Paperback | Engels | Pacific Studies
• Few Pacific history books have stood the test of time as well as They Came for Sandalwood , but Dorothy Shineberg's book, first published in 1967, has... Lees meer

God's Gentlemen

David Hilliard

• Paperback | Engels | Pacific Studies
• Originally published in 1978, God's Gentlemen remains the only detached and detailed historical analysis of the work of the Melanesian Mission, which ... Lees meer

The Chiefs' Country

Michael Kwa'ioloa, Ben Burt

• Paperback | Engels | Pacific Studies
• In this autobiographical account of life in the capital of the Solomon Islands, Michael Kwa'ioloa reflects on the challenges of raising a family in to... Lees meer

Papua New Guinea

Don Woolford

• Paperback | Engels | Pacific Studies
• First published in 1976, Papua New Guinea was the first book to interpret the key events that led to the nation's independence in 1975. In the book, j... Lees meer