Mangilao, Guam: Guampedia Foundation, 2013. — 460 p. The 2nd Marianas History Conference took place at the University of Guam August 30-31, 2013. It was organized by the University of Guam, Northern Mariana Islands Humanities Council, Guam Preservation Trust and Guampedia.com after the 1st Marianas History Conference held on Saipan in 2012. About 250 people from around the...
Routledge, 2021. — 232 p. Since the turn of the twenty-first century, family history is the place where two great oceans of research are meeting: family historians outside the academy, with traditionally trained, often university-employed historians. This collection is both a testament to dialogue and an analysis of the dynamics of recent family history that derives from the...
University of Pennsylvania Press, 2018. — 308 p. In The Kingdom and the Republic, Noelani Arista uncovers a trove of previously unused Hawaiian language documents to chronicle Hawaiians' experience of encounter and colonialism in the nineteenth century, reconfiguring familiar histories of trade, proselytization, and negotiations over law and governance in Hawaiʻi.
Duke University Press, 2019. — 328 p. From their earliest encounters with Indigenous Pacific Islanders, white Europeans and Americans asserted an identification with the racial origins of Polynesians, declaring them to be racially almost white and speculating that they were of Mediterranean or Aryan descent. In Possessing Polynesians Maile Arvin analyzes this racializing history...
New York, NY : Berghahn Books, 2019. — 334 p., figures, tables. — (Studies in German History, vol. 22.) Traditionally, Germany has been considered a minor player in Pacific history: its presence there was more limited than that of other European nations, and whereas its European rivals established themselves as imperial forces beginning in the early modern era, Germany did not...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2014. — 303 p. List of Figures. On Shrinking Continents and Expanding Oceans. On Chronometers, Cartography, and Curiosity. On Narrating the Pacific. On the Usefulness of Information. On History and Hydrography. On Rediscovering the Americas. Epilogue: Iberian Visions of the Pacific Ocean, 1507–1899. Notes.
University of Hawaii Press, 1999. — 352 p. What actually happened as Europeans and peoples of the Pacific discovered each other? How have their respective senses of the past influenced their understanding of the present? And what are the consequences of their meeting? In this collection of essays, scholars from European, Polynesian, and Settler backgrounds provide answers to these...
Captivating History, 2022. — 116 p. When most people hear the phrase “ancient Hawaii,” it brings up a certain air of mystery and intrigue. Some might think of tattooed tribesmen sailing across the vast emptiness of the Pacific Ocean under the moonlight, dancing around campfires to connect with their gods, or living on the sides of volcanos. But is this an accurate depiction? Or...
University Of Minnesota Press, 2016. — 344 p. What if we saw indigenous people as the active agents of global exploration rather than as the passive objects of that exploration? What if, instead of conceiving of global exploration as an enterprise just of European men such as Columbus or Cook or Magellan, we thought of it as an enterprise of the people they “discovered”? What...
Foreword by Henry Reynolds — University of Queensland Press, 2014. — 296 p. Between 1825 and 1831 close to 200 Britons and 1000 Aborigines died violently in Tasmania's Black War. It was by far the most intense frontier conflict in Australia's history, yet many Australians know little about it. The Black War takes a unique approach to this historic event, looking chiefly at the...
Routledge, 2008. — 550 p. Presenting the history of the inhabitants of the Pacific Islands from first colonization until the spread of European colonial rule in the later 19th century, this volume focuses specifically on Pacific Islander-European interactions from the perspective of Pacific Islanders themselves. A number of recorded traditions are reproduced as well as articles...
Berghahn Books, 2018. — 278 р. In Vanuatu, commoditization and revitalization of culture and the arts do not necessarily work against each other; both revolve around value formation and the authentication of things. This book investigates the meaning and value of (art) objects as commodities in differing states of transit and transition: in the local place, on the market, in...
Cambridge University Press, 1997. - 540 pp.
This history presents an authoritative and comprehensive introduction to the experiences of Pacific islanders from their first settlement of the islands to the present day. It addresses the question of insularity and explores islanders' experiences thematically, covering such topics as early settlement, contact with Europeans,...
ANU E Press, 2003 - 325 p.
Most of the chapters in this book were presented as papers at a three-day conference in Port Vila, Vanuatu, in June 2000. Organised jointly by the Australian National University’s State, Society and Governance in Melanesia (SSGM) Project and the Law School of the University of the South Pacific (USP), the conference was held at the Emalus Campus of...
Canberra, Australia: ANU E Press, The Australian National University, 2008. — xx + 352 p. — ISBN: 9781921313998; ISBN: 9781921536007. From the 18th century, Oceania became the principal laboratory of raciology for scholars, voyagers, and colonisers alike. By juxtaposing encounters and theory, this magisterial book explores the semantics of human difference in all its emotional,...
Taylor & Francis, 1998. — 358 p. Across the Great Divide tracks a Pacific historian's fruitful, ambivalent engagements with History and Anthropology, anticipating experiments in each discipline with the other's theories, and praxis. The revised and new essays comprising this collection provide systematic critiques of aspects of received scholarly wisdom about Oceania and are...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2014. — 384 p.
Spanning four centuries and vast space, this book combines the global history of ideas with particular histories of encounters between European voyagers and Indigenous people in Oceania (Island Southeast Asia, New Guinea, Australia, New Zealand, and the Pacific Islands). Douglas shows how prevailing concepts of human difference, or race,...
University of Hawaii Press, 2018. — 352 p. Coral and Concrete, Greg Dvorak’s cross-cultural history of Kwajalein Atoll, Marshall Islands, explores intersections of environment, identity, empire, and memory in the largest inhabited coral atoll on earth. Approaching the multiple “atoll-scapes” of Kwajalein’s past and present as Marshallese ancestral land, Japanese colonial...
Allen Unwin, 2007. — 288 p. Seeking the legendary Great South Land, the Spanish conquistadors of the late 16th and early 17th centuries sailed from South America into the unknown southwestern Pacific. Crossing the planet's largest ocean in small wooden ships with rudimentary navigation, these conquistadors encountered for the first time the Solomon Islands, Vanuatu, the south...
Reaktion Books, 2006. - 306 p.
On a long stretch of green coast in the South Pacific, hundreds of enormous, impassive stone heads stand guard against the ravages of time, war, and disease that have attempted over the centuries to conquer Easter Island. Steven Roger Fischer offers the first English-language history of Easter Island in Island at the End of the World, a...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2002. — 240 p. A History of the Pacific Islands traces the human history of nearly one-third of the globe over a 50,000 year span. This is history on a grand scale, taking the islands of Melanesia, Micronesia, and Polynesia from prehistoric culture to the present day through a skillful interpretation of scholarship in the field. Fischer's familiarity with work...
Routledge, 2018. — 268 p. South Seas Encounters examines several key types of encounters between the many-faceted worlds of Oceania, Britain and the United States in the formative nineteenth century. The eleven essays collected in this volume focus not only on the effect of the two powerful, industrialized colonial powers on the cultures of the Pacific, but the effect of those...
University of Hawaii Press, 2019. — 257 p. Few people today know that in the nineteenth century, Hawai‘i was not only an internationally recognized independent nation but played a crucial role in the entire Pacific region and left an important legacy throughout Oceania. As the first non-Western state to gain full recognition as a coequal of the Western powers, yet at the same...
University of Hawaii Press, 2010. — 320 p. In August 1803 two Russian ships, the Nadezhda and the Neva, set off on a round-the-world voyage to carry out scientific exploration and collect artifacts for Alexander I’s ethnographic museum in St. Petersburg. Russia’s strategic concerns in the north Pacific, however, led the Russian government to include as part of the expedition an...
St. Martin's Press, 2014. — 405 p. The most recent state to join the union, Hawaii is the only one to have once been a royal kingdom. After its "discovery" by Captain Cook in the late 18th Century, Hawaii was fought over by European powers determined to take advantage of its position as the crossroads of the Pacific. The arrival of the first missionaries marked the beginning of...
ANU Press, 2007. — 206 p. The Southern Highlands is one of Papua New Guinea’s most resource-rich provinces, but for a number of years the province has been riven by conflict. Longstanding inter-group rivalries, briefly set aside during the colonial period, have been compounded by competition for the benefits provided by the modern state and by fighting over the distribution of...
Tuttle Publishing, 1989. — 332 p. Ancient Hawaiian Civilization takes us back to Hawaii's " stone age," when there wasn't an alphabet, numbering system, or other civilized distinctions as we know them. Still rules of living, modes, and customs permitted large numbers of people to live healthfully and happily throughout the islands. This fascinating history of Hawaii is " must"...
Springer Nature, 2021. — 145 p. This is a timely intervention that contributes to a growing debate on settler colonialism as a mode of domination that characterises the global present and involves locales not normally seen as settler colonial. West Papua fits the bill. Associate Professor Lorenzo Veracini, author of Settler Colonial Studies: A Theoretical overview. In alignment...
Emerald Publishing, 2020. — 235 p. The first comprehensive examination of how systems of government have emerged in the small and diverse developing island states of the Pacific Islands region, this study outlines the way in which government systems in the region have evolved from their pre-independence origins to their current political, constitutional, and public sector...
Louisiana State University Press, 2018. — 104 p. Deeply researched and deeply felt, Passing Worlds is a poetic reimagining of the first encounters of Europeans and Tahitians during the historic voyages of Captain James Cook. Although the expeditions brought back impressive stores of knowledge and new plant and animal specimens, those scientific rewards came at a high human...
Oxford, 2013. — 322 p. Historians and archaeologists define primary states — “cradles of civilization” from which all modern nation states ultimately derive — as large-scale, territorially-based, autonomous societies in which a centralized, bureaucratic government employs legitimate power to exercise sovereignty. The well-recognized list of regions that witnessed the...
Springer, 2023. — 722 p. This book aims to present a reality view for Papua New Guinea based on many years of first-hand field work and research accounts. It further assesses sustainability in the light of 47,000 years of a self-sustained type of civilization without bad global impacts. This book contrasts the modern sustainable development failures from the colonial times...
Springer, 2023. — 722 p. This book aims to present a reality view for Papua New Guinea based on many years of first-hand field work and research accounts. It further assesses sustainability in the light of 47,000 years of a self-sustained type of civilization without bad global impacts. This book contrasts the modern sustainable development failures from the colonial times...
Angus and Robertson Publishers, 1973. — 474 p. This collection of readings provides source material for students in history and social science. Few of the extracts can be readily found in either school or university libraries, but none is merely esoteric. The readings are arranged in general chronological order, with separate chapters devoted to the parallel developments in...
University of New South Wales Press, 2015. — 512 p. The history of Aborigines in Van Diemen’s Land is long. The first Tasmanians lived in isolation for as many as 300 generations after the flooding of Bass Strait. Their struggle against almost insurmountable odds is one worthy of respect and admiration, not to mention serious attention. This broad-ranging book is a...
Doubleday, 1966. — 359 р. The History of Oceania includes the history of Australia, New Zealand, Hawaii, Papua New Guinea, Fiji and other Pacific island nations. Oceania has a diverse mix of economies from the highly developed and globally competitive financial markets of Australia, New Caledonia, New Zealand, French Polynesia and Hawaii, which rank high in quality of life and...
University of Queensland Press, 2015. — 325 p. When Hugh Laracy reviewed this book in The Journal of Pacific History in 1978 he rightly described it as the 'product of monumental research'. Exploring the diplomatic negotiations that led to the division of the Samoan Islands between Germany, Great Britain and the USA in 1899, it is a significant study of international relations...
University of California Press, 2012. — 368 p. Tracing the origins of the Hawaiians and other Polynesians back to the shores of the South China Sea, archaeologist Patrick Vinton Kirch follows their voyages of discovery across the Pacific in this fascinating history of Hawaiian culture from about one thousand years ago. Combining more than four decades of his own research with...
University of California Press, 2012. — 368 p. Tracing the origins of the Hawaiians and other Polynesians back to the shores of the South China Sea, archaeologist Patrick Vinton Kirch follows their voyages of discovery across the Pacific in this fascinating history of Hawaiian culture from about one thousand years ago. Combining more than four decades of his own research with...
University of Hawaii Press, 2007. — 408 p. Were there major population collapses on Pacific Islands following first contact with the West? If so, what were the actual population numbers for islands such as Hawai‘i, Tahiti, or New Caledonia? Is it possible to develop new methods for tracking the long-term histories of island populations? These and related questions are at the...
University of California Press, 2010. — 288 p. In How Chiefs Became Kings , Patrick Vinton Kirch addresses a central problem in anthropological archaeology: the emergence of “archaic states” whose distinctive feature was divine kingship. Kirch takes as his focus the Hawaiian archipelago, commonly regarded as the archetype of a complex chiefdom. Integrating anthropology,...
University of California Press, 2010. — 288 p. In How Chiefs Became Kings , Patrick Vinton Kirch addresses a central problem in anthropological archaeology: the emergence of “archaic states” whose distinctive feature was divine kingship. Kirch takes as his focus the Hawaiian archipelago, commonly regarded as the archetype of a complex chiefdom. Integrating anthropology,...
University of Hawaii Press, 2014. — 336 p. In early Hawai‘i, kua‘āina were the hinterlands inhabited by nā kua‘āina, or country folk. Often these were dry, less desirable areas where much skill and hard work were required to wrest a living from the lava landscapes. The ancient district of Kahikinui in southeast Maui is such a kua‘āina and remains one of the largest tracts of...
University of Hawaii Press, 2021. — 475 p. The colorful history of the Hawaiian Islands, since their discovery in 1778 by the great British navigator Captain James Cook, falls naturally into three periods. During the first, Hawaii was a monarchy ruled by native kings and queens. Then came the perilous transition period when new leaders, after failing to secure annexation to the...
University of Hawaii Press, 2021. — 320 p. The colorful history of the Hawaiian Islands, since their discovery in 1778 by the great British navigator Captain James Cook, falls naturally into three periods. During the first, Hawaii was a monarchy ruled by native kings and queens. Then came the perilous transition period when new leaders, after failing to secure annexation to the...
University of Hawaii Press, 2021. — 776 p. The colorful history of the Hawaiian Islands, since their discovery in 1778 by the great British navigator Captain James Cook, falls naturally into three periods. During the first, Hawaii was a monarchy ruled by native kings and queens. Then came the perilous transition period when new leaders, after failing to secure annexation to the...
Australian National University Press, 2017. — 125 + xii p. — ISBN(s): 9781760461652 (print), 9781760461669 (eBook). List of Figures Acknowledgements Preface. xi 1 Introduction 2 Islanders at War 3 Why Support the Allies? 4 Impacts of the War 5 Monument-building and Nation‑building 6 Conclusion Appendix 1: Prime Minister Derek Sikua’s letter of endorsement of the Solomon Scouts...
ANU E Press, 2010. — 316 p.
How are Pacific lives imagined, written and read? How are they refracted through prisms of process? From legends about culture heroes to biographies of national leaders, from tales of ancestors to stories of contemporary men and women, from lives told of both the famous and the nameless, this collection of essays — by historians and anthropologists,...
Cambridge University Press, 2008. — 245 p. Over the last twenty years, a substantial body of literature has emerged on various aspects of cultural traditions in non-Western societies. Many of these works have celebrated the renaissance of indigenous cultural representations in the arts as well as in social life more generally, particularly in the context of post-colonial...
I.B.Tauris, 2014. — 288 p. Little more than seventy years after the British settled Van Diemen’s Land (later Tasmania) in 1803, its indigenous population had been virtually wiped out. Yet this genocide - one of the earliest of the modern era - is virtually forgotten in Britain today. The Last Man is the first book specifically to explore the role of the British government and...
I.B.Tauris, 2014. — 288 p. Little more than seventy years after the British settled Van Diemen’s Land (later Tasmania) in 1803, its indigenous population had been virtually wiped out. Yet this genocide - one of the earliest of the modern era - is virtually forgotten in Britain today. The Last Man is the first book specifically to explore the role of the British government and...
Aarhus University Press, 2009. — 416 p. This book of classic scope is a monograph on a Melanesian society, an exploration of ranked exchange and a bold critique of anthropological exchange theory. John Liep unravels the complex society and exchange system on Rossel Island east of New Guinea. At centre stage is the famous 'Rossel Island money', a hierarchy of more than twenty...
Ocean Press, 1998. — 279 p. 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.
Brill, 2016. — 311 p. — (International Studies in Religion and Society 26). Cultural expressions of Christianity show great diversity around the globe. While scholarship has tended to consider charismatic practices in distinct geographical contexts, this volume advances the anthropology of Christianity through ethnographically rich, comparative insights from across the...
Cambridge University Press, 2016. — 275 p. — ISBN: 978-1-107037-59-5. This book charts the previously untold story of decolonisation in the oceanic world of the Pacific, Australia and New Zealand, presenting it both as an indigenous and an international phenomenon. Tracey Banivanua Mar reveals how the inherent limits of decolonisation were laid bare by the historical...
Schwartz Books, 2020. — 128 p. The West Papuan independence movement has reignited, and Indonesian troops are cracking down. Chemical weapons have been deployed, hundreds of people killed, tens of thousands displaced – all on Australia’s doorstep. And almost no one is writing about it. In The Road, investigative reporter John Martinkus gives a gripping, up-to-date account of...
McFarland, 2020. — 200 p. Popular films about the Bounty mutiny only scratch the surface. This rebellion on a British vessel in 1789 sparked the voyages of H.M.S. Pandora - dispatched to track down the mutineers and return them to England for court-martial - and the Matavy , a schooner built by the mutineers in Tahiti. This is the first book to include eyewitness accounts from...
Oxford University Press, 2016. — 296 p. Little has been written about when, how and why the British Government changed its mind about giving independence to the Pacific Islands. Using recently opened archives, Winding Up the British Empire in the Pacific Islands gives the first detailed account of this event. As Britain began to dissolve the Empire in Asia in the aftermath of...
Scarecrow Press, 2005. — 385 p. The long voyages of discovery and exploration of the vast Pacific Ocean were an exercise in logistics, navigation, hard grit, shipwreck and pure luck. The motivations were scientific and geographic, but at the same time nationalistic and materialistic. This ambitious and informative reference includes the familiar names of Laperouse, Bougainville,...
Springer, 2022. — 640 p. Interdisciplinary approach gathering a wide range of disciplines and perspectives. In-depth and unbiased analysis of natural and anthropogenic drivers of socioecological change. Of interest to a wide range of research fields incl. anthropology, archaeology, ethnography, paleoecology, history, etc. This book addresses the main enigmas of Easter Island’s...
Routledge, 2013. — 322 p. A book about the past and present Pacific Islands, wide-ranging in time and space spanning the centuries from the first settlement of the islands until the present day. At any rate, this is a book scholars should, and will, appreciate; for is Passages Through Tropical Time is eclectic, it is also complex and rich, a welcome addition to the literature...
University of Nebraska Press, 2017. — 224 p. Twelve companies of American missionaries were sent to the Hawaiian Islands between 1819 and 1848 with the goal of spreading American Christianity and New England values. By the 1850s American missionary families in the islands had birthed more than 250 white children, considered Hawaiian subjects by the indigenous monarchy and U.S....
University of Nebraska Press, 2023. — 166 p. Throughout the nineteenth century British and American imperialists advanced into the Pacific, with catastrophic effects for Polynesian peoples and cultures. In both Tahiti and Hawai‘i, women rulers attempted to mitigate the effects of these encounters, utilizing their power amid the destabilizing influence of the English and...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2017. — 208 p. — (Palgrave Studies in the History of Genocide). This book presents a philosophical history of Tasmania’s past and present with a particular focus on the double stories of genocide and modernity. On the one hand, proponents of modernisation have sought to close the past off from the present, concealing the demographic disaster behind less...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2017. — 208 p. — (Palgrave Studies in the History of Genocide). This book presents a philosophical history of Tasmania’s past and present with a particular focus on the double stories of genocide and modernity. On the one hand, proponents of modernisation have sought to close the past off from the present, concealing the demographic disaster behind less...
Cambridge University Press, 1997. - 268 p.
What do people think when they imagine themselves as part of a nation? Nation and Commemoration answers this question in an exploration of the creation and recreation of national identities through commemorative activities. Extending recent work in cultural sociology and history, Lyn Spillman compares centennial and bicentennial...
Blackwell, 1997. — 326 p. — (The Peoples of South-East Asia and the Pacific). — ISBN: 0-631-16727-7. The Island Melanesians is the first book to focus on the inhabitants of the chain of archipelagoes stretching east and southeast of the large island of New Guinea - the Bismarcks, Solomon Islands, Vanuatu and New Caledonia (Kanaky). The story of these people begins with the...
Melbourne University Press, 2017. — 456 p. In 1908 English gentleman Ernest Westlake packed a tent, a bicycle and forty tins of food and sailed to Tasmania. On mountains, beaches and in sheep paddocks he collected over 13,000 Aboriginal stone tools. Westlake believed he had found the remnants of an extinct race whose culture was akin to the most ancient Stone Age Europeans. But...
Harper, 2019. — 384 p. A blend of Jared Diamond’s Guns, Germs, and Steel and Simon Winchester’s Pacific , a thrilling intellectual detective story that looks deep into the past to uncover who first settled the islands of the remote Pacific, where they came from, how they got there, and how we know. For more than a millennium, Polynesians have occupied the remotest islands in...
Harper, 2019. — 384 p. A blend of Jared Diamond’s Guns, Germs, and Steel and Simon Winchester’s Pacific , a thrilling intellectual detective story that looks deep into the past to uncover who first settled the islands of the remote Pacific, where they came from, how they got there, and how we know. For more than a millennium, Polynesians have occupied the remotest islands in...
Scarecrow Press, 2001. — 416 p. Papua New Guinea has experienced a remarkable rapid transition from scattered primitive societies to a modern unified nation. The A-Z Dictionary covers major economic, social, political and cultural developments, basic geographic information, and key biographies. Ann Turner is currently a freelance writer, researcher, and consultant. She has taught...
Australian National University Press, 1966. — 192 p. The paucity of published material on the borders of New Guinea and the international significance of the Irian boundary led me to bring together the information I had gathered over the past few years. Ideally, a book of this kind should cover the subject in its total historical and geographical context. The aim of this work is...
Vancouver, BC: Douglas & McIntyre, 2012. — 174 p. Excerpt from the book: "My name is Saul Indian Horse. I am the son of Mary Mandamin and John Indian Horse. My grandfather was called Solomon so my name is the diminutive of his. My people are from the Fish Clan of the northern Ojibway, the Anishinabeg, we call ourselves. We made our home in the territories along the Winnipeg River,...
Routledge, 2020. — 274 p. Focusing on the era of "first encounters" in Polynesia, this book provides a fresh look at some of the early contacts between indigenous people and the captains and crew of European ships. The case studies chosen enable comparison of New Zealand Māori–European transactions with similar Pacific ones. The book examines the conflict situations that arose...
Scarecrow Press, 1994. — 172 p. The book, in dictionary form, provides basic reference material on Micronesia, a region encompassing a vast area of the tropical western Pacific Ocean. Micronesia, from the Greek mikros (small), and nesos (island), is one of the three major geographical regions of the Pacific, or Oceania. It includes the Mariana, Caroline, Marshall, and Gilbert...
Таллин: Ээсти раамат, 1983. — 336 с. «На затылке земного шара» — это путевые заметки заслуженного писателя Эстонской ССР Владимира Бээкмана, побывавшего в Австралии, на островах Фиджи и в Новой Зеландии. Читатель найдет в этой книге не только красочные описания путешествия, но и размышления автора в связи с увиденным и услышанным им.
Таллин: Ээсти раамат, 1983. — 336 с. «На затылке земного шара» — это путевые заметки заслуженного писателя Эстонской ССР Владимира Бээкмана, побывавшего в Австралии, на островах Фиджи и в Новой Зеландии. Читатель найдет в этой книге не только красочные описания путешествия, но и размышления автора в связи с увиденным и услышанным им.
СПб.: Полигон, 2004. — 221, [3] с: ил. — (Классическая мысль).
История Австралии и Океании — с древнейших времен и до начала XX века. Масштабное, глубокое, но в то же время доступно написанное произведение, в котором собственно исторический обзор соседствует с интересными фактами антропогеографии и особенно этнографии.
В книге с позиции становления экономических отношений рассматривается история стран Океании: островов Самоа, Таити, Пасхи (Рапа-нуи), Гавайских островов и др.
Директмедиа, 2006. — 1791 с. Диск посвящен искусству и повседневной жизни народов, населяющих австралийский материк и острова Тихого океана. Произведения искусства народов Австралии и Океании связаны с первобытной магией и создаются как неотъемлемая составная часть сложной системы обрядов. В скульптуре, наскальной живописи, украшениях, татуировке художники отображали сложную...
М.: Наука, 1978. - 74 с.
Книга посвящена истории островов Кука, одного из архипелагов Океании. В ней исследуются быт и нравы коренного населения до прихода европейцев, изменения в укладе жизни островитян под влиянием христианских миссионеров, установление колониального господства Великобритании.
М.: Наука, 1978. — 74 с. Книга посвящена истории островов Кука, одного из архипелагов Океании. В ней исследуются быт и нравы коренного населения до прихода европейцев, изменения в укладе жизни островитян под влиянием христианских миссионеров, установление колониального господства Великобритании.
М.: Наука, 1975. — 128 с. Книга представляет собой первое в советской литературе исследование истории и современного положения острова Гуам, являющегося сейчас главной заморской военно-морской и военно-воздушной базой США. В книге дается описание жизненного уклада островитян до европейского вторжения, борьба их против иноземных захватчиков, большое внимание уделяется...
М.: Наука, 1975. — 129 с. Книга представляет собой первое в советской литературе исследование истории и современного положения острова Гуам, являющегося сейчас главной заморской военно-морской и военно-воздушной базой США. В книге дается описание жизненного уклада островитян до европейского вторжения, борьба их против иноземных захватчиков, большое внимание уделяется...
М.: Наука, 1977. — 145 с. — (Страны и народы).
Книга посвящена истории и современному положению Марианских, Маршалловых и Каролинских островов, объединяемых географическим понятием Микронезия. Автор рассказывает о колонизаторской деятельности Испании, Германии, Японии, в разное время владевших этой территорией, о формах и методах управления его Соединенными Штатами Америки в...
М.: Наука, 1977. — 145 с. — (Страны и народы). Книга посвящена истории и современному положению Марианских, Маршалловых и Каролинских островов, объединяемых географическим понятием Микронезия. Автор рассказывает о колонизаторской деятельности Испании, Германии, Японии, в разное время владевших этой территорией, о формах и методах управления ею Соединенными Штатами Америки в...
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