The people trade : Pacific Island laborers and New Caledonia, 1865-1930 / Dorothy Shineberg.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Shineberg, Dorothy.

Series:

Pacific islands monograph series ; no. 16.

Pacific islands monograph series ; 16

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Indentured servants--Vanuatu--History.

Indentured servants.

Pacific Islanders--Vanuatu--History.

Pacific Islanders.

Pacific Islanders--New Caledonia--History.

Indentured servants--New Caledonia--History.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxiii, 309 pages ) illustrations, maps ;

Other Title:

Pacific Island laborers and New Caledonia, 1865-1930

Place of Publication:

Honolulu, Hawaii : University of Hawai'i Press, c1999.

Contents:

pt. 1. Recruiting for New Caledonia. 1. The Pacific Island Labor Trade and New Caledonia. 2. The Colony Established. 3. Entrepreneurial Recruiting in the 1870s. 4. The Kidnapping Inquiries and the Suspension of the Labor Trade, 1880-1882. 5. Settlers Triumphant: The Labor Trade Revived. 6. The New Century

pt. 2. Profile of Recruits. 7. Men and Motives. 8. The Women. 9. The Children

pt. 3. At the Workplace. 10. Work in New Caledonia. 11. Living and Working in New Caledonia: By Law or Custom? 12. "Perpetual Theft" 13. Sickness and Death. 14. "Hebrideans" in Colonial Society. 15. Life after Indenture. 16. "Nothing More Convenient."

Notes:

Maps on lining papers.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 275-297), index, and statistics.

ISBN:

0-585-32256-2