Paradise past : the transformation of the South Pacific, 1520-1920 / Robert W. Kirk.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kirk, Robert W., 1937-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Social change--Oceania--History.

Social change.

Indigenous peoples--Oceania--History.

Indigenous peoples.

Indigenous peoples--Oceania--Social conditions.

Oceania--Colonization--History.

Oceania.

Oceania--Colonial influence.

Oceania--Social conditions.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (297 p.)

Place of Publication:

Jefferson, N.C. : McFarland & Co., c2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In the 400 years from Magellan's entrance into Pacific waters to 1920, the lives of the people of the South Pacific were utterly transformed. Exotic diseases from Europe and America, particularly the worldwide influenza pandemic, were deadly for islanders. Ardent missionaries changed the belief systems and lives of nearly all Polynesians, Aborigines, and those Papuans and Melanesians living in areas accessible to westerners. By 1920 every island and atoll in the South Seas had been claimed as a colony or protectorate of a power such as Britain, France or the United States. Factors aiding this

Contents:

Cover; Table of Contents; Preface; Introduction. A Traumatic Transformation; 1. What Magellan Never Found, 1520-1521; 2. Spaniards Explore Their Lake, 1568-1793; 3. The Dutch Century, 1616-1722; 4. Disturbing the Tahitian Arcadia, 1767-1842; 5. In the Bounty's Wake, 1789-1864; 6. A White Tribe at Botany Bay, 1788-1911; 7. The Death of the Last Tasmanian, 1642-1876; 8. Maori Encounters, 1769-1840; 9. The Sandwich Islands Transformed, 1778-1874; 10. Missionaries Triumphant: Rarotonga and Mangareva, 1818-1887; 11. Cannibals and Crucixes: The Marquesas, 1774-1914

12. Vanished: Easter Island's Incredible Culture, 1722-191413. Bayonets and Baguettes: French Polynesia, 1842-1914; 14. French Melanesia Subdued, 1774-1914; 15. Rocking the Cradle: Tonga and Samoa, 1773-1914; 16. King Cakobau's Dilemma: Fiji, 1803-1914; 17. Maoris Marginalized, 1840-1914; 18. Holding Out: New Hebrides, the Solomons and New Guinea, 1767-1914; 19. Hawaii Subdued, 1874-1914; 20. The Imperial Impulse, 1883-1918; 21. An Ongoing Transformation, 1918-1920; Appendix; Chapter Notes; Bibliography; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-283-74022-2

0-7864-9298-8

OCLC:

818847055