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Where the waves fall : a new South Seas Islands history from first settlement to colonial rule / K.R. Howe.

Title
Where the waves fall : a new South Seas Islands history from first settlement to colonial rule / K.R. Howe.
Author
Howe, K. R.
Publication
Sydney : George Allen & Unwin, 1984.

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Description
xix, 403 p. : ill.; 24 cm.
Subject
  • Islands of the Pacific > History
  • New Zealand > History > To 1840
Genre/Form
History
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. 375-392) and index.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
IN THE SEA'S EYE. 1. Whence and how -- 2. Civilisations in the making -- 3. Ethnographic moments -- FROM COLD LANDS. 4. Suspected continents -- 5.The wealth of islands -- 6. To recover the remnant -- CONQUERING KINGS. 7. Pomares of Tahiti -- 8. Kamehamehas of Hawaii -- 9. Taufa'ahau of Tonga -- MONARCHS MANQUE? 10. New Zealand -- II. Samoa -- 12. Fiji -- WESTERN ISLES 13. The making of Melanesia -- 14. Mission frontiers -- 15. Trade frontiers -- EPILOGUE. 16. Considering the new historiography.
ISBN
  • 0868613436
  • 0868613517 (pbk. : corrected)
  • 0868613817 (pbk.) (canceled/invalid)
LCCN
^^^91180931^
OCLC
  • 223211625
  • SCSB-12771481
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library