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• The Deportation of Andres Magaña Ortiz
• Vaqueros and Paniolos
• Boricua Hawaiiana
• "Without them, I don't know what we would do"
• "Wetbacks in Racial Paradise?"
• Mixed Race Identity, Localized Latinxs and a Pacific Latinidad.

• The Deportation of Andres Magaña Ortiz
• Vaqueros and Paniolos
• Boricua Hawaiiana
• Working Maui Pine
• "Wetbacks in Racial Paradise?"
• Mixed Race Identity, Localized Latinxs and a Pacific Latinidad

"Aloha Compadre: Latinxs in Hawaiʻi is the first book to examine the collective history and contemporary experiences of the Latinx population of Hawaiʻi. This study reveals that contrary to popular discourse, Latinx migration to Hawaiʻi is not a recent event. In the national memory of the United States for example, the Latinx population of Hawaiʻi is often portrayed as recent arrivals and not as long-term historical communities with a presence that precedes the formation of statehood itself. Historically speaking Latinxs have been voyaging to the Hawaiian Islands for over 190 years. From the early 1830s to the present, they continue to help shape Hawaiʻi's history, yet their contributions are often overlooked. Latinxs have thus been a part of the cultural landscape of Hawaiʻi prior to annexation, territorial status, and statehood in 1959. Aloha Compadre also explores the expanding boundaries of Latinx migration beyond the western hemisphere and into Oceania"-- Provided by publisher

• PART 1: Ruth Ross
• Chapter 1: The Government Printer
• Chapter 2: School Publications
• Chapter 3: The New Zealand Journal of History
• PART 2: Te Tiriti
• Chapter 4: Reading 'Te Tiriti o Waitangi'
• Chapter 5: The Waitangi Tribunal, the Legal Scholars and the Historians
• PART 3: History
• Chapter 6: Politics, Public History and Juridical History
• Chapter 7: Revisionist Histories
• Chapter 8: The Advantages and Disadvantages of History
• Appendix: Te Tiriti o Waitangi/The Treaty of Waitangi
• Illustrations
• Abbreviations
• Notes
• Bibliography
• Acknowledgements
• Index.

"Ruth Ross is hardly a household name, yet most New Zealanders today owe the way they understand the Treaty of Waitangi - or te Tiriti o Waitangi as Ross called it - to this remarkable woman's path-breaking historical research. Taking us on a journey from small university classes and a lively government department in the nation's war-time capital to an economically poor but culturally rich Maori community in the far north, and from tiny schools and cloistered university offices to parliamentary committees and a legal tribunal, Attwood enables us to grasp how and why the place of the Treaty of Waitangi in New Zealand law, politics, society and culture has been transformed in the last seven decades. A frank and moving meditation on the making of history and its advantages and disadvantages for life in a democratic society, A Bloody Difficult Subject is a surprising story full of unforeseen circumstances, unexpected twists, unlikely turns and unanticipated outcomes"--Publisher's description.

• General Editor's Introduction Paul D'Arcy
• Preface to Volume I Matt Matsuda and Ryan Tucker Jones
• Part I. Rethinking the Pacific: 1. Te Moana nui a Kiwa: The original ocean Witi Ihimaera
• 2. The Pacific region in deep time David Christian
• 3. The history of humans and whales in the Pacific: Leviathan's families Ryan Tucker Jones
• 4. Weaving women's stories: Restoring women and indigenous perspectives into chuukese history Myjolynne Kim
• 5. The Pacific world: Doing history from lagoons to the deep Judith A. Bennett
• Part II. Humans and the Natural World in the Pacific Ocean: 6. Indigenous knowledge/science of climate and the natural world Chels Alby Marshall
• 7. Atolls, experiments, and the origin of islands: Science as a way of knowing the Pacific since 1766 Alistair Sponsel
• 8. The birth and development of Pacific islands to 1800 CE Chris Lobban and Maria Schefter
• 9. Natural hazards, risks, and peoples in the Pacific world Paul D'Arcy and Cynthia Neri Zayas
• Part III. Deep Time: Sources for the Ancient History of the Pacific: 10. Biological anthropology and genetics in Pacific history Elizabeth Matisoo-Smith
• 11. The word as artefact: What linguistics can and cannot tell us about the prehistory of the Pacific Paul Geraghty
• 12. Oral traditions in Pacific history Morgan Tuimaleali'ifano and Paul D'Arcy
• 13. The evolution of Pacific island societies Gregory Waula Bablis
• 14. Ancient voyaging capacity in the Pacific: Lessons for the future Peter Nuttall, Simon Penny, Marianne 'Mimi' George, and Sylvia C. Frain
• 15. Revitalizing 'traditional' navigation systems in the contemporary Pacific Larry Raigetal
• Part IV. The Initial Colonization of the Pacific: 16. Pleistocene voyaging and maritime dispersals in the Pacific Jon M. Erlandson
• 17. Early Maritime Navigation and Cultures in Coastal Southern China, Taiwan, and Island Southeast Asia, 6000 to 500 BCE Hsiao-chun Hung
• 18. New guinea's past: The last 50,000 years Glenn R. Summerhayes
• 19. Austronesian colonization of the Pacific islands, 1000 BCE-1250 CE Stuart Bedford
• 20. Seafaring and colonization in the Southern Ocean, 1000 CE-1850 CE Atholl Anderson
• 21. Polynesians in Central-South Chile: Sailing eastwards Jose Miguel Ramirez-Aliaga
• Part V. The evolution of Pacific communities: 22. Towards a unified theory for Pacific colonization, exchange, and social complexity Matthew Spriggs
• 23. The evolution of China's political economy of the sea, 960-1900 Kent Deng
• 24. China and the sea in literature, 1644-1839 Ronald C. Po
• 25. Pacific history viewed from Eastern Indonesia: The eastern archipelago of southeast Asia and the sea in the early modern period 1400-1830's Leonard Y. Andaya
• 26. The maritime cultures of the northwest Pacific seaboard of the Americas Madonna L. Moss
• 27. Mesoamerican-south American Pre-Columbian Pacific contacts: Evidence, objects and traditions, 1500 BCE-1532 CE Andrea Ballesteros Danel and Antonio Jaramillo Arango
• Part VI. Europe's Maritime Expansion into the Pacific: 28. Iberian conceptions of the Pacific Rainer F. Buschmann and David Manzano Cosano
• 29. Naval rivalry in the Western Pacific: Portugal, England, Holland, and Koxinga, 1600-1720 Dahpon Ho
• 30. The resurgence of Chinese mercantile power in maritime East Asia, 1500-1700 Xing Hang
• 31. The enduring sea cultures of Southeast Asia, seventh-nineteenth centuries CE Jennifer L. Gaynor
• Bibliography to Volume I
• Index.
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Volume I of The Cambridge History of the Pacific Ocean provides a wide-ranging survey of Pacific history to 1800. It focuses on varied concepts of the Pacific environment and its impact on human history, as well as tracing the early exploration and colonization of the Pacific, the evolution of Indigenous maritime cultures after colonization, and the disruptive arrival of Europeans. Bringing together a diversity of subjects and viewpoints, this volume introduces a broad variety of topics, engaging fully with emerging environmental and political conflicts over Pacific Ocean spaces. These essays emphasize the impact of the deep history of interactions on and across the Pacific to the present day.
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• General Editor's Introduction Paul D'Arcy
• Preface to Volume II Anne Perez Hattori and Jane Samson
• Part VII. Rethinking the Pacific: 32. Climate change, rising seas, and endangered island nations Hilda Heine, Kathy Jetnil-Kijiner, and Jo-Jikum
• 33. Authority, identity, and place in the Pacific ocean and its hinterlands, c. 1200 to c. 2000 Lewis Mayo
• 34. Europe's other? Academic discourse on the Pacific as a cultural space Anna Johnston
• 35. The phantom empire: Japan in oceania and oceania in Japan from the 1890's onward Greg Dvorak
• 36. Blue continent to blue Pacific Jane Samson
• Part VIII. Approaches, Sources, and Subaltern Histories of the Modern Pacific: 37. Archives and community memory in the Pacific Opeta Alefaio and Nicholas Halter
• 38. Missing in action: Women's under-representation and decolonizing the archival experience Safua Akeli Amaama
• 39. Rethinking gender and identity in Asia and the Pacific Angela Wanhalla
• 40. Fifty years of the Hawaiian nation: Integrations of resistance, language, and the love of our land Jonathan Kay Kamakawiwo'ole Osorio
• 41. Pacific literature and history Alice Te Punga Somerville
• 42. Film and Pacific history Alexander Mawyer
• 43. The visual and performing arts of the Pacific: A historical overview Adrienne L. Kaeppler
• Part IX. Culture Contact and the Impact of Pre-colonial European Influences: 44. The Pacific in the age of revolutions Sujit Sivasundaram
• 45. Disease in Pacific history: 'The fatal impact'? Vicki Luker
• 46. Culture and christian missions in the Pacific Helen Gardner
• 47. Trading nature in the Pacific: Ecological exchange prior to 1900 David Igler
• 48 Seaborne ethnography to the science of race, 1521-1850 Bronwen Douglas
• Part X. The Colonial Era in The Pacific: 49. Political developments in the Pacific islands in the nineteenth century Lorenz Gonschor
• 50. Timorese islanders and the Portuguese empire in the Indonesian archipelago Ricardo Roque
• 51. Pacific bodies and personal space redefined, 1850-1960 Jacqueline Leckie
• 52. The Pacific in the age of steam, undersea cables. and wireless telegraphy, 1860-1930 Frances Steel
• 53. Latin America's Pacific ambitions, 1571 to the present Edward Melillo
• Part XI. The Pacific Century? :54. The USA and the Pacific since 1800: Manifestly facing west David Hanlon
• 55. World war II and the Pacific Judith A. Bennett and Lin Poyer
• 56. The nuclear Pacific: From Hiroshima to Fukushima, 1945-2018 Barbara Johnston
• 57. Shrinking the Pacific since 1945: Containerships, jets, and internet Peter J. Rimmer and Howard W. Dick
• 58. China and the Pacific since 1949 Fei Sheng and Paul D'Arcy
• 59. Pacific island nations since independence: 1960 to the present Stephanie Lawson
• Part XII. Pacific Futures: 60. Ancestral voices of the sea: Hearing the past to lead the future Tevita O. Ka'ili
• 61. Defining the contours of the lagoon: Political strategies towards post-noumea accord political futures in New Caledonia Anthony Tutugoro
• 62. New Pacific voyages since independence: 1960 onwards Roannie Ng Shui and Rochelle Bailey
• 63. Creating sustainable Pacific environments during the Anthropocene: The lessons of Pacific History Tamatoa Bambridge and Gonzaga Puas
• 64. Concluding Reflection: 'Choppy Waters' Anne Perez Hattori
• Bibliography to Volume II
• Index.
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Volume II of The Cambridge History of the Pacific Ocean focuses on the latest era of Pacific history, examining the period from 1800 to the present day. This volume discusses advances and emerging trends in the historiography of the colonial era, before outlining the main themes of the twentieth century when the idea of a Pacific-centred century emerged. It concludes by exploring how history and the past inform preparations for the emerging challenges of the future. These essays emphasise the importance of understanding how the postcolonial period shaped the modern Pacific and its historians.
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"In this groundbreaking work, Peter Mills reveals a wealth of insight into the emergence of the Hawaiian nation-state from sources mostly ignored by colonial and post-colonial historians alike. By examining how early Hawaiian chiefs appropriated Western sailing technology to help build their island nation, Mills presents the fascinating history of sixty Hawaiian-owned schooners, brigs, barks, and peleleu canoes. While these vessels have often been dismissed as examples of chiefly folly, Mills highlights their significance in Hawaiʻi's rapidly evolving monarchy, and aptly demonstrates how the monarchy's own nineteenth-century sailing fleet facilitated fundamental transformations of interisland tributary systems, alliance building, exchange systems, and emergent forms of Indigenous capitalism. Part One covers broad trends in Hawaiʻi's changing maritime traditions, beginning with the evolution of Hawaiian archaic states in the precontact era. Mills argues that Indigenous trends towards political intensification under the predecessors to Kamehameha I set the stage for Kamehameha's own rapid appropriation of Western sailing vessels. From the first procurement of a Western-style vessel in 1790 through the beginning of the constitutional monarchy in 1840, these vessels were part of a nuanced strategy that promoted a diverse revenue base for the monarchy and developed greater international parity in Hawaiʻi's foreign diplomacy. Part Two presents the histories of the sixty vessels owned by Hawaiian chiefs between 1790 and 1840, discussing their significance, origin, physical attributes, ownership, procurement, and purpose. Using newspapers and other concurrent sources, Mills uncovers little-known details of more than 2,000 voyages around and between the islands and to distant parts of the Pacific. His meticulous documentation of each ship's itinerary is a valuable resource for tracking the movement of chiefs and commoners between islands as they engaged in the business of building a newly interconnected Hawaiian nation. Part Three connects these previously neglected maritime stories with an expanding body of historical treatments of Hawaiian agency. Readers with enthusiasm for life in nineteenth-century Hawaiʻi will appreciate the entertaining and, at times, deeply moving glimpses into the daily lives of individuals in Hawaiʻi's pluralistic port communities"-- Provided by publisher

• List of Illustrations Acknowledgments The Languages and Temporalities of "Everywhen" in Deep History Ann McGrath and Laura Rademaker
• Part 1. Songs of Country in Time 1. Standing on the Ground and Writing on the Sky: An Indigenous Exploration of Place, Time, and Histories Jakelin Troy 2. Bugarrigarra Nyurdany, Because of the Dreaming: A Discussion of Time and Place in Yawuru Cosmology Sarah Yu with Yawuru Community Members Dianne Appleby, Lloyd Pigram, and Thomas Edgar 3. Old Dogs and Ice Ages in Noongar Country Clint Bracknell 4. Songs and the Deep Present Linda Barwick
• Part 2. Time's Archive? The Language of Words 5. Yirriyengburnama-langwa mamawura-langwa: Talking about Time in Anindilyakwa James Bednall 6. Australian Languages and the Deep Past Michael Walsh and Harold Koch 7. Time, Language, and Thought: What Language Can Tell Us about Our Concepts of Time000 Marie-Eve Ritz and Maia Ponsonnet
• Part 3. Transforming Times 8. Innovation, Continuity, and the Punctuated Temporality of Archaeological Narratives Catherine J. Frieman 9. Across "Koori Time" and Space John Maynard 10. Early European Mariners at Cape Keerweer: Bespoke Variations of an Aboriginal Legend 000 Peter Sutton 11. Time and Eternity: Aboriginal and Missionary Conversations about Temporality Laura Rademaker 12. On the Shores of the Narinya: Contemporary D'harawal Interactions with Ancestral Knowledges Shannon Foster Contributors Index.
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Everywhen is a groundbreaking collection about diverse ways of conceiving, knowing, and narrating time and deep history. Looking beyond the linear documentary past of Western or academic history, this collection asks how knowledge systems of Australia's Aboriginals and Torres Strait Islanders can broaden our understandings of the past and of historical practice. Indigenous embodied practices for knowing, narrating, and reenacting the past in the present blur the distinctions of linear time, making all history now. Ultimately, questions of time and language are questions of Indigenous sovereignty. The Australian case is especially pertinent because Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people are among the few Native peoples without a treaty with their colonizers. Appreciating First Nations' time concepts embedded in languages and practices, as Everywhen does, is a route to recognizing diverse forms of Indigenous sovereignties. Everywhen makes three major contributions. The first is a concentration on language, both as a means of knowing and transmitting the past across generations and as a vital, albeit long-overlooked source material for historical investigation, to reveal how many Native people maintained and continue to maintain ancient traditions and identities through language. Everywhen also considers Indigenous practices of history, or knowing the past, that stretch back more than sixty thousand years; these Indigenous epistemologies might indeed challenge those of the academy. Finally, the volume explores ways of conceiving time across disciplinary boundaries and across cultures, revealing how the experience of time itself is mediated by embodied practices and disciplinary norms. Everywhen brings Indigenous knowledges to bear on the study and meaning of the past and of history itself. It seeks to draw attention to every when, arguing that Native time concepts and practices are vital to understanding Native histories and, further, that they may offer a new framework for history as practiced in the Western academy. .
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• The Itinerant Yet Stubbornly Stable European Value of Material Culture, ca. 1870-1920
• Ethnographic Resident Collection Networks in German New Guinea
• Contested Indigenous Borderlands
• Artifact Exchanges along the Ethnographic Borderlands.

" 'Hoarding New Guinea' provides a new cultural history of colonialism that pays close attention to the millions of artifacts that continue to be witnesses to Europe's colonial past in ethnographic museums"-- Provided by publisher.

• The Scene of the Crime : German New Guinea
• With Pastor Aly's Blessings
• The Luf Boat as Museum Attraction
• The 1882 Luf Massacre
• "Bastian's Network" of Thieves
• Deception, Larceny, and Looting
• Curators, Crusaders, and Cannons
• Ethnology, Child of Colonialism
• The Luf Boat Comes to Berlin
• An Artifact of an Ancient Culture
• Islands Stripped Bare
• Where Does the Luf Boat Belong?

"Götz Aly pens a forgotten chapter in the history of empire through the chronicle a single object: a majestic fifteen-meter boat, looted from Papua New Guinea during a German colonial expedition and since displayed in Berlin museums. While arguing for the vessel's repatriation, Aly restores attention to the conquest of the Bismarck Archipelago"-- Provided by publisher

• The scene of the crime : German New Guinea
• With Pastor Aly's Blessings
• The Luf Boat as museum attraction
• The 1882 Luf Massacre
• "Bastian's network" of thieves
• Deception, larceny, and looting
• Curators, crusaders, and cannons
• Ethnology, child of colonialism
• The Luf Boat comes to Berlin
• An artifact of an ancient culture
• Islands stripped bare
• Where does the Luf Boat belong?

"Götz Aly pens a forgotten chapter in the history of empire through the chronicle a single object: a majestic fifteen-meter boat, looted from Papua New Guinea during a German colonial expedition and since displayed in Berlin museums. While arguing for the vessel's repatriation, Aly restores attention to the conquest of the Bismarck Archipelago"-- Provided by publisher

• The Scene of the Crime : German New Guinea
• With Pastor Aly's Blessings
• The Luf Boat as Museum Attraction
• The 1882 Luf Massacre
• "Bastian's Network" of Thieves
• Deception, Larceny, and Looting
• Curators, Crusaders, and Cannons
• Ethnology, Child of Colonialism
• The Luf Boat Comes to Berlin
• An Artifact of an Ancient Culture
• Islands Stripped Bare
• Where Does the Luf Boat Belong?

• The Scene of the Crime : German New Guinea
• With Pastor Aly's Blessings
• The Luf Boat as Museum Attraction
• The 1882 Luf Massacre
• "Bastian's Network" of Thieves
• Deception, Larceny, and Looting
• Curators, Crusaders, and Cannons
• Ethnology, Child of Colonialism
• The Luf Boat Comes to Berlin
• An Artifact of an Ancient Culture
• Islands Stripped Bare
• Where Does the Luf Boat Belong?

"Götz Aly pens a forgotten chapter in the history of empire through the chronicle a single object: a majestic fifteen-meter boat, looted from Papua New Guinea during a German colonial expedition and since displayed in Berlin museums. While arguing for the vessel's repatriation, Aly restores attention to the conquest of the Bismarck Archipelago"-- Provided by publisher

• Part 1: Framings Introduction: Southern Circulations and the Making and Remaking of Australasia, Tony Ballantyne (University of Otago, New Zealand) 1. Framing Australasia: Empire, Colonization and the Cartographic Imagination, Tony Ballantyne (University of Otago, New Zealand) Part II: Circulating People and the Production of Space 2. Circulating Texts on Circulating People: Mobilities, Epistemic violence, and the Creation of the Imagined Australasian, Rachel Standfield (University of Melbourne, Australia) 3. Triangular Formation: Fiji, New Zealand and Australia, Frances Steel (University of Otago, New Zealand) 4. 'A Splendid Thing': Imagining Australasian Federation, Frank Bongiorno (Australian National University, Australia) 5. Cosmopolitan Pacific: Pan-Pacific Internationalisms in the Mid Twentieth Century, Fiona Paisley and Helen Gardner (Griffith University and Deakin University, Australia) 6. 'We seem to shake hands across the seas': Dora Meeson Coates and the Lost World of Australasian Suffrage Activism, James Keating (University of New South Wales, Australia) 7. Circulations of belonging: Chinese British subjects in Australasia, 1880-1920, Kate Bagnall (University of Tasmania, Australia) Part III: Environmental Transformations 8. We Keep Down Our Remorse: Anthony Trollope and the Emotional Politics of Australasian Agriculture, Grace Moore (University of Otago, New Zealand) 9. Brooch Clams and Blind Lobsters: HMS Challenger in the Australasian Pacific, 1874-5, Gillen D'Arcy Wood (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, USA) 10. Gorse is People, Thomas McLean (University of Otago, New Zealand) Part IV: Texts in Motion 11. Antipodean Perspectives: The Politics and Economics of Being Topsy-Turvy, Sarah Comyn (University College Dublin, Ireland) 12. Pedestrian Touring, Racial Violence and Bad Feeling in Trans-Tasman Settler Fiction, Porscha Fermanis (University College Dublin, Ireland) 13. When Detection Goes South: Ngaio Marsh's Wartime "New Zealand" Novels, 1937-1945, Antoinette Burton (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, USA)
• Conclusion: Perpetual Flight: Relationships in Space and Time, Tony Ballantyne (University of Otago, New Zealand) Selected Bibliography Index.
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This book explores the emergence of 'Australasia' as a way of thinking about the culture and geography of this region. Although it is frequently understood to apply only to Australia and New Zealand, the concept has a longer and more complicated history. 'Australasia' emerged in the mid-18th century in both French and British writing as European empires extended their reach into Asia and the Pacific, and initially held strong links to the Asian continent. The book shows that interpretations and understandings of 'Australasia' shifted away from Asia in light of British imperial interests in the 19th century, and the concept was adapted by varying political agendas and cultural visions in order to reach into the Pacific or towards Antarctica. The Making and Remaking of Australasia offers a number of rich case studies which highlight how the idea itself was adapted and moulded by people and texts both in the southern hemisphere and the imperial metropole where a range of competing actors articulated divergent visions of this part of the British Empire. An important contribution to the cultural history of the British Empire, Australia, New Zealand and Pacific Studies, this collection shows how 'Australasia' has had multiple, often contrasting, meanings.
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"Cet ouvrage est la première synthèse publiée en français sur la navigation traditionnelle des populations des îles du Pacifique. Dans le sillage des maîtres navigateurs, on découvre comment, à une époque où les autres peuples se limitaient au cabotage, ils explorèrent le plus vaste océan du monde sur des embarcations aux performances étonnantes, ancêtres des catamarans modernes. De l'Asie du Sud-Est à l'île de Pâques et même jusqu'aux rivages du continent américain, ce livre, basé sur les connaissances les plus récentes, nous convie à revivre la progressive conquête par notre espèce de centaines d'îles dispersées sur un tiers de la surface du globe un exploit unique dans l'histoire de l'humanité."--Page 4 of cover.

• Introduction : woman in red
• Purea
• 'Aimata
• Ka'ahumanu
• Lili'uokalani
• Conclusion : to all the queens.

""When Women Ruled the Pacific" explores the female Polynesian rulers of the nineteenth century, women who held enormous domestic and foreign power and expertly governed their people amid shifting loyalties, outright betrayals, and the ascendancy of imperial racism"-- Provided by publisher.
"Throughout the nineteenth century British and American imperialists advanced into the Pacific, with catastrophic effects for Polynesian peoples and cultures. In both Tahiti and Hawai'i, women rulers attempted to mitigate the effects of these encounters, utilizing their power amid the destabilizing influence of the English and Americans. However, as the century progressed, foreign diseases devastated the Tahitian and Hawaiian populations, and powerful European militaries jockeyed for more formal imperial control over Polynesian waystations, causing Tahiti to cede rule to France in 1847 and Hawai'i to relinquish power to the United States in 1893. In When Women Ruled the Pacific Joy Schulz highlights four Polynesian women rulers who held enormous domestic and foreign power and expertly governed their people amid shifting loyalties, outright betrayals, and the ascendancy of imperial racism. Like their European counterparts, these Polynesian rulers fought arguments of lineage, as well as battles for territorial control, yet the freedom of Polynesian women in general and women rulers in particular was unlike anything Europeans and Americans had ever seen. Consequently, white chroniclers of contact had difficulty explaining their encounters, initially praising yet ultimately condemning Polynesian gender systems, resulting in the loss of women's autonomy. The queens' successes have been lost in the archives as imperial histories and missionary accounts chose to tell different stories. In this first book to consider queenship and women's political sovereignty in the Pacific, Schulz recenters the lives of the women rulers in the history of nineteenth-century international relations"-- Provided by publisher.

"Fin connaisseur de son pays, Louis-José Barbançon explore sous l'angle intimiste les sentiers tortueux de l'histoire contemporaine de la Nouvelle-Calédonie - ses pages lumineuses et les autres. Il revient sur les moments fondateurs de son enfance, de sa formation et de son éveil politique. En somme, sur tout ce qui a fait de lui ce qu'il est aujourd'hui : un esprit en mouvement, un homme de conviction. Alors que, plus que jamais, le débat identitaire plane sur la société calédonienne comme une ombre, à la fois menaçante et essentielle, celui qui se qualifie d'Océanien d'origine européenne partage l'expérience d'une vie pour esquisser un chemin possible, celui du "nous". À ses côtés pour libérer la parole intime, le journaliste Walles Kotra - qui joint également sa plume intense, précise et poétique à la réflexion. "Louis-José, passeur d'histoires, pourfendeur de silence, force qui va...""--Page 4 of cover.