Worlds Apart A History of the Pacific Islands

by Campbell, Ian C.

• ISBN13: 9781927145029
• ISBN10: 1927145023
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2011-10-01
• Publisher: Canterbury University Press

Summary

THE PACIFIC ISLANDS remain for most people a region of obscurity or puzzlement. The attention of news media is attracted by atypical events such as political violence that contradict the peaceful tourist image of sun, sea and smiling faces. Journalists, travellers, business people and the general public have few paths to access specialised knowledge about the complex and changing 'neighbourhood' to New Zealand's north and Australia's northeast. Ian Campbell's History of the Pacific Islands, first published in 1989, served this purpose for many years, and its successor, Worlds Apart, has proven to be equally serviceable, bringing into focus the past and present of this diverse and endlessly misunderstood region. This concise and readable narrative has now been revised to bring the story of the island world - from its first settlement by raft and canoe voyagers, through the period of western contact and acculturation - up to 2010. As with its earlier versions, this book has been written not for fellow academics, but for the many people who want to know 'what happened'.

Author Biography

Ian C. Campbell is a former history professor at the University of Canterbury in New Zealand and at the University of the South Pacific in Fiji as well as a former visiting professor at Kagoshima University in Japan. He is the author of "Gone Native" in Polynesia: Captivity Narratives and Experiences from the South Pacific and Island Kingdom: Tonga Ancient and Modern.

Table of Contents

Orthography and Pronunciation	p. 8
Preface	p. 9
The People of Oceania	p. 17
Papuan and Austronesian Colonisation	p. 36
The Age of European Discovery	p. 61
Polynesia: Trade and Social Change	p. 73
Polynesia: Missionaries and Kingdoms	p. 88
Polynesia: European Settlement and the Later Kingdoms	p. 107
Melanesia: Sandalwood and 'Blackbirding'	p. 127
Melanesia: Missionaries and Colonists	p. 142
Micronesia: Colonisation, Commerce and Christianity	p. 158
Imperialist Intervention	p. 175
After a Century of Contact	p. 191
Early Experiments in Colonial Government: 1 The British Empire	p. 205
Early Experiments in Colonial Government: 2 France, Gennany and the United States	p. 223
Civilising Colonialism: The League of Nations Experiment	p. 237
Certainty and Insecurity 1914-45	p. 252
Planning a New World	p. 270
Independence Bestowed	p. 289
Independence Retarded	p. 310
Post-colonial Trends	p. 332
Democratic Variations	p. 349
Appendix: Basic Facts	p. 371
Further Reading	p. 381
Index	p. 385
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