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Item Information   Holdings     Summary     More Content       More by this author     Kirk, Robert W., 1937-     Subjects     Social change -- Oceania -- History.     Indigenous peoples -- Oceania -- History.     Indigenous peoples -- Oceania -- Social conditions.     Oceania -- Colonization -- History.     Oceania -- Colonial influence.     Oceania -- Social conditions.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Kirk, Robert W., 1937-       by title:      Paradise past : the ...         MARC Display

Paradise past : the transformation of the South Pacific, 1520-1920 / Robert W. Kirk. by Kirk, Robert W., 1937- Jefferson, North Carolina : McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, [2012] Subjects Social change -- Oceania -- History.   Indigenous peoples -- Oceania -- History.   Indigenous peoples -- Oceania -- Social conditions.   Oceania -- Colonization -- History.   Oceania -- Colonial influence.   Oceania -- Social conditions. ISBN:  9780786469789 (softcover : acid-free paper) 0786469781 (softcover : acid-free paper) Description:  vii, 288 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm Contents:  What Magellan Never Found, 1520-1521 -- Spaniards Explore Their Lake, 1568-1793 -- The Dutch Century, 1616-1722 -- Disturbing the Tahitian Arcadia, 1767-1842 -- In the Bounty's Wake, 1789-1864 -- A White Tribe at Botany Bay, 1788-1911 -- The Death of the Last Tasmanian, 1642-1876 -- Maori Encounters, 1769-1840 -- The Sandwich Islands Transformed, 1778-1874 -- Missionaries Triumphant : Rarotonga and Mangareva, 1818-1887 -- Cannibals and Crucifxes : The Marquesas, 1774-1914 -- Vanished : Easter Island's Incredible Culture, 1722-1914 -- Bayonets and Baguettes : French Polynesia, 1842-1914 -- French Melanesia Subdued, 1774-1914 -- Rocking the Cradle : Tonga and Samoa, 1773-1914 -- Fiji : King Cakobau's Dilemma, 1803-1914 -- Maoris Marginalized, 1840-1914 -- Holding Out : New Hebrides, the Solomons and New Guinea, 1767-1914 -- Hawaii Subdued, 1874-1914 -- The Imperial Impulse, 1883-1918 -- An Ongoing Transformation, 1918-20 -- Appendix: Timeline of Signifcant Events. Requests:  0 Summary:  "In the 400 years from Magellan's entrance into Pacific waters to 1920, the lives of the people of the South Pacific were transformed. Pacific people died from exotic diseases from Europe and America. The coming of westerners, as this book points out, was not entirely negative, as head-hunting, cannibalism, chronic warfare, human sacrifice, and other practices were diminished"--Provided by publisher.   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Status Due Date   Hawaii Kai Public Library Hawaiian Nonfiction H 995 Ki Checked out 06/05/2024 Add Copy to MyList Hawaii State Library Hawaiian & Pacific H 995 Ki Checked In   Add Copy to MyList Hawaii State Library Hawaiian & Pacific H 995 Ki Lost 01/02/2015 Add Copy to MyList Hawaii State Library R -- Hawaiian & Pacific H 995 Ki Non Circulating   Add Copy to MyList Hilo Public Library Adult Nonfiction 995 Kiark Checked In   Add Copy to MyList Kailua-Kona Public Library Hawaiian Nonfiction H 995 Ki Checked In   Add Copy to MyList Kapolei Public Library Hawaiian Nonfiction H 995 Ki Checked In   Add Copy to MyList

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