Paradise past : the transformation of the South Pacific, 1520-1920

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Label

Paradise past : the transformation of the South Pacific, 1520-1920

Title remainder

the transformation of the South Pacific, 1520-1920

Statement of responsibility

Robert W. Kirk

Creator

• Kirk, Robert W., 1937-

Subject

• Indigenous peoples -- Oceania -- Social conditions
• Oceania -- Colonial influence
• Indigenous peoples -- Oceania -- History
• Oceania -- Social conditions
• Social change -- Oceania -- History
• Oceania -- Colonization | History

Language

eng

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

Cataloging source

DLC

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography