Author: Robert Langdon
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780958830928
Category : Ethnology
Languages : en
Pages : 299
Book Description
The Lost Caravel Re-explored
Author: Robert Langdon
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780958830928
Category : Ethnology
Languages : en
Pages : 299
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780958830928
Category : Ethnology
Languages : en
Pages : 299
Book Description
The Lost Caravel
Author: Robert Langdon
Publisher: Sydney : Pacific Publications
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 400
Book Description
Theory that crew of Spanish ship San Lesmes, lost in Pacific in 1526, played part in prehistory of Polynesia, inc. Tuamotu, Society Is., Austral Is., Easter Is. & New Zealand.
Publisher: Sydney : Pacific Publications
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 400
Book Description
Theory that crew of Spanish ship San Lesmes, lost in Pacific in 1526, played part in prehistory of Polynesia, inc. Tuamotu, Society Is., Austral Is., Easter Is. & New Zealand.
The Quest for Origins
Author: K. R. Howe
Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
ISBN: 9780824827502
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
Did they come from space, from Egypt, from the Americas? From other ancient civilizations? These are some of today's most fanciful claims about the first settlers of the islands of the Pacific. But none of them correctly answer the question: Where did the Polynesians come from? This book is a thoughtful and devastating critique of such "new" learning, and a careful and accessible survey of modern archaeological, anthropological, genetic, and linguistics findings about the origins of Pacific Islanders. Professor Howe also examines the two-hundred-year-old history of Western ideas about Polynesian origins in the context of ever-changing fads and intellectual fashions.
Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
ISBN: 9780824827502
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
Did they come from space, from Egypt, from the Americas? From other ancient civilizations? These are some of today's most fanciful claims about the first settlers of the islands of the Pacific. But none of them correctly answer the question: Where did the Polynesians come from? This book is a thoughtful and devastating critique of such "new" learning, and a careful and accessible survey of modern archaeological, anthropological, genetic, and linguistics findings about the origins of Pacific Islanders. Professor Howe also examines the two-hundred-year-old history of Western ideas about Polynesian origins in the context of ever-changing fads and intellectual fashions.
Scribner's Magazine
Author: Edward Livermore Burlingame
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American periodicals
Languages : en
Pages : 822
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American periodicals
Languages : en
Pages : 822
Book Description
The Return of the Caravels
Author: António Lobo Antunes
Publisher: Grove Press
ISBN: 9780802139559
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
"Set in Lisbon as Portugal's African colonies dissolve in the 1970s."--Jacket.
Publisher: Grove Press
ISBN: 9780802139559
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
"Set in Lisbon as Portugal's African colonies dissolve in the 1970s."--Jacket.
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Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1158
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1158
Book Description
Bob and the Guides
Author: Mary Raymond Shipman Andrews
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Boys
Languages : en
Pages : 392
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Boys
Languages : en
Pages : 392
Book Description
Making Peoples
Author: James Belich
Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
ISBN: 9780824825171
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 508
Book Description
Now in paper This immensely readable book, full of drama and humor as well as scholarship, is a watershed in the writing of New Zealand history. In making many new assertions and challenging many historical myths, it seeks to reinterpret our approach to the past. Given New Zealand's small population, short history, and great isolation, the history of the archipelago has been saddled with a reputation for mundanity. According to James Belich, however, it is just these characteristics that make New Zealand "a historian's paradise: a laboratory whose isolation, size, and recency is an advantage, in which the grand themes of world history are often played out more rapidly, more separately, and therefore more discernably, than elsewhere." The first of two planned volumes, Making Peoples begins with the Polynesian settlement and its development into the Maori tribes in the eleventh century. It traces the great encounter between independent Maoridom and expanding Europe from 1642 to 1916, including the foundation of the Pakeha, the neo-Europeans of New Zealand, between the 1830s and the 1880s. It describes the forging of a neo-Polynesia and a neo-Britain and the traumatic interaction between them. The author carefully examines the myths and realities that drove the colonialization process and suggests a new "living" version of one of the most critical and controversial documents in New Zealand's history, the Treaty of Waitangi, frequently descibed as New Zealand's Magna Carta. The construction of peoples, Maori and Pakeha, is a recurring theme: the response of each to the great shift from extractive to sustainable economics; their relationship with their Hawaikis, or ancestors, with each other, and with myth. Essential reading for anyone interested in New Zealand history and in the history of new societies in general.
Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
ISBN: 9780824825171
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 508
Book Description
Now in paper This immensely readable book, full of drama and humor as well as scholarship, is a watershed in the writing of New Zealand history. In making many new assertions and challenging many historical myths, it seeks to reinterpret our approach to the past. Given New Zealand's small population, short history, and great isolation, the history of the archipelago has been saddled with a reputation for mundanity. According to James Belich, however, it is just these characteristics that make New Zealand "a historian's paradise: a laboratory whose isolation, size, and recency is an advantage, in which the grand themes of world history are often played out more rapidly, more separately, and therefore more discernably, than elsewhere." The first of two planned volumes, Making Peoples begins with the Polynesian settlement and its development into the Maori tribes in the eleventh century. It traces the great encounter between independent Maoridom and expanding Europe from 1642 to 1916, including the foundation of the Pakeha, the neo-Europeans of New Zealand, between the 1830s and the 1880s. It describes the forging of a neo-Polynesia and a neo-Britain and the traumatic interaction between them. The author carefully examines the myths and realities that drove the colonialization process and suggests a new "living" version of one of the most critical and controversial documents in New Zealand's history, the Treaty of Waitangi, frequently descibed as New Zealand's Magna Carta. The construction of peoples, Maori and Pakeha, is a recurring theme: the response of each to the great shift from extractive to sustainable economics; their relationship with their Hawaikis, or ancestors, with each other, and with myth. Essential reading for anyone interested in New Zealand history and in the history of new societies in general.
The Cambridge History of the Pacific Islanders
Author: Donald Denoon
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521003544
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 544
Book Description
An authoritative and comprehensive history of the Pacific islanders from 40,000 BC to the present day.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521003544
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 544
Book Description
An authoritative and comprehensive history of the Pacific islanders from 40,000 BC to the present day.
South Pacific Handbook
Author: David Stanley
Publisher: David Stanley
ISBN: 9781566910408
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 948
Book Description
Whether it's the legends about breadfruit trees or ghosts inhabiting inland Tahiti, the endangered delicacies to avoid or the gift-giving protocol when invited to a local's home, how to tour a vanilla plantation on Raiatea or when to find the Nouméa flame trees "catch fire" in hues of red and orange, South Pacific Handbook covers everything about this region of boundless ocean and scarce land. Drawing on two decades of editions and incorporating the comments of countless previous readers, this user-friendly guide extends beyond the hot spots and steers readers off the beaten path throughout Polynesia and Melanesia.
Publisher: David Stanley
ISBN: 9781566910408
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 948
Book Description
Whether it's the legends about breadfruit trees or ghosts inhabiting inland Tahiti, the endangered delicacies to avoid or the gift-giving protocol when invited to a local's home, how to tour a vanilla plantation on Raiatea or when to find the Nouméa flame trees "catch fire" in hues of red and orange, South Pacific Handbook covers everything about this region of boundless ocean and scarce land. Drawing on two decades of editions and incorporating the comments of countless previous readers, this user-friendly guide extends beyond the hot spots and steers readers off the beaten path throughout Polynesia and Melanesia.