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Sea Change: An Atlas of Islands in a Rising Ocean by Christina Gerhardt
RRP: £30.00£24.29"A stunning atlas of the present and future."—Rebecca Solnit, author of several books including Infinite Cities: A Trilogy of Atlases—San Francisco, New Orleans, New York "An impassioned plea to save what remains of these remarkable island communities... -
Bitter Peleliu: The Forgotten Struggle on the Pacific War's Worst Battlefield by Joseph Wheelan
RRP: £25.00£16.84The hard-hitting history of the Pacific War's 'forgotten battle' of Peleliu - a story of intelligence failings and impossible bravery. In late 1944, as a precursor to the invasion of the Philippines, U.S. military analysts decided to seize the small... -
An Introduction to the Blue Humanities by Steve Mentz 9780367763664
RRP: £35.99£31.69An Introduction to the Blue Humanities is the first textbook to explore the many ways humans engage with water, utilizing literary, cultural, historical, and theoretical connections and ecologies to introduce students to the history and theory of... -
Blue Latitudes by Horowitz 9780312422608
RRP: £17.99£14.19Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780312422608Author HorowitzFormat PaperbackPage Count 496Imprint St Martin's PressPublisher St Martin's Press -
The Official History of the Falklands Campaign, Volume 1: The Origins of the Falklands War by Lawrence Freedman 9780415419123
RRP: £47.99£41.81Drawing on a vast range of previously classified government archives as well as interviews with key participants, this first volume of the official history of the Falklands Campaign is the most authoritative account of the origins of the 1982 war. In the... -
The Battle of Midway by Craig L. Symonds 9780195397932
RRP: £23.49£20.03There are few moments in American history in which the course of events tipped so suddenly and so dramatically as at the Battle of Midway. At dawn of June 4, 1942, a rampaging Japanese navy ruled the Pacific. By sunset, their vaunted carrier force (the... -
Lost Cities of Ancient Lemuria & the Pacific by David Hatcher Childress 9780932813046
RRP: £18.50£13.94Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780932813046Author David Hatcher ChildressFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint Adventures Unlimited PressPublisher Adventures Unlimited PressWeight(grams)... -
Aloha Betrayed: Native Hawaiian Resistance to American Colonialism by Noenoe K. Silva
RRP: £21.99£19.49In 1897, as a white oligarchy made plans to allow the United States to annex Hawai'i, native Hawaiians organized a massive petition drive to protest. Ninety-five percent of the native population signed the petition, causing the annexation treaty to fail... -
Race to Hawaii: The 1927 Dole Air Derby and the Thrilling First Flights That Opened the Pacific by Jason Ryan 9780912777252
RRP: £23.95£18.87Today, a trip to Hawaii is a simple six-hour flight from the West Coast, but almost a century ago, it was a nerve-wracking and twenty-six-hour journey across 2,400 miles of the open Pacific. Race to Hawaii chronicles the thrilling first flights during... -
History of the Mariana Islands Luis de Morales, S.J., S.J. 9781935198093
£89.88Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781935198093Author Luis de Morales, S.J., S.J.Format HardbackPage Count 304Imprint University of Guam PressPublisher University of Guam Press -
History of the Mariana Islands Luis de Morales, S.J., S.J. 9781935198956
£19.16Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781935198956Author Luis de Morales, S.J., S.J.Format PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint University of Guam PressPublisher University of Guam Press -
Gender, Violence and Criminal Justice in the Colonial Pacific: 1880-1920 by Kate Stevens 9781350275553
£29.35Centering on cases of sexual violence, this book illuminates the contested introduction of British and French colonial criminal justice in the Pacific Islands during the late 19th and early 20th centuries, focusing on Fiji, New Caledonia, and Vanuatu/New... -
Reclaiming Kalakaua: Nineteenth-Century Perspectives on a Hawaiian Sovereign by Tiffany Lani Ing 9780824881566
RRP: £27.95£25.73Reclaiming Kalakaua: Nineteenth-Century Perspectives on a Hawaiian Sovereign examines the American, international, and Hawaiian representations of David La`amea Kamanakapu Mahinulani Nalaiaehuokalani Lumialani Kalakaua in English- and Hawaiian-language... -
Serendipity: Experience of Pacific Historians by Brij V. Lal 9780824894276
RRP: £70.00£63.23The second generation of Pacific historians, who began their careers in the 1970s and 1980s, is gradually fading from the academic scene. They have made fundamental contributions to the field of Pacific history, enduring in their impact, and the identity... -
Naturalist Histories: Making Nature, Knowledge, and People in Oceania by Jamon Alex Halvaksz 9780824887896
RRP: £68.00£61.52From early explorers to contemporary scientists, naturalists have examined island flora and fauna of Oceania, discovering new species, carefully documenting the lives of animals, and creating work central to the image of Oceania. These "discoveries" and... -
Easter Island by Spanier Kristine Mlis 9781636903071
RRP: £26.99£21.16Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781636903071Author Spanier Kristine MlisFormat HardbackPage Count 24Imprint Pogo BooksPublisher Pogo BooksWeight(grams) 340gDimensions(mm) 231mm * 191mm *... -
Work, Class, and Power in the Borderlands of the Early American Pacific: The Labors of Empire by Evan Lampe 9780739182413
RRP: £98.00£85.01This book traces the history of working people who helped established the foundation of the American empire in the Pacific from its origins after the American Revolution to its coming of age in the 1840s and 1850s. Beginning with the expeditions of the... -
The Ancient Hawaiian State: Origins of a Political Society by Robert J. Hommon 9780199916122
RRP: £92.00£77.00Historians and archaeologists define primary states-"cradles of civilization" from which all modern nation states ultimately derive-as significant territorially-based, autonomous societies in which a centralized government employs legitimate... -
Genes, Language, and Culture History in the Southwest Pacific by Jonathan S. Friedlaender 9780195300307
£86.30The broad arc of islands north of Australia that extends from Indonesia east towards the central Pacific is home to a set of human populations whose concentration of diversity is unequaled elsewhere. Approximately 20% of the worlds languages are spoken... -
The Mo'olelo Hawai'i of Davida Malo Volume 1: Ka 'Olelo Kumu by Davida Malo 9780824855499
RRP: £68.00£67.38Davida Malo's Mo'olelo Hawai'i is the single most important description of pre-Christian Hawaiian culture. Malo, born in 1795, twenty-five years before the coming of Christianity to Hawai'i, wrote about everything from traditional cosmology and accounts... -
Consuming Ocean Island: Stories of People and Phosphate from Banaba by Katerina Martina Teaiwa
RRP: £66.00£56.93Consuming Ocean Island tells the story of the land and people of Banaba, a small Pacific island, which, from 1900 to 1980, was heavily mined for phosphate, an essential ingredient in fertilizer. As mining stripped away the island's surface, the land was... -
Cane Fires: The Anti-Japanese Movement in Hawaii, 1865-1945 by Gary Okihiro
RRP: £27.99£24.14A history of a systematic anti-Japanese movement in Hawaii from the time migrant workers were brought to the sugar cane fields until the end of World War IIBook InformationISBN 9780877229452Author Gary OkihiroFormat PaperbackPage Count 360Imprint Temple... -
The Mo'olelo Hawai'i of Davida Malo Volume 2: Hawaiian Text and Translation by Davida Malo
RRP: £62.00£58.41Davida Malo's Mo'olelo Hawai'i is the single most important description of pre-Christian Hawaiian culture. Malo, born in 1795, twenty-five years before the coming of Christianity to Hawai'i, wrote about everything from traditional cosmology and accounts... -
Kava in the Blood: A Personal & Political Memoir from the Heart of Fiji by Peter Thomson 9781419695766
RRP: £19.95£17.55Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781419695766Author Peter ThomsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint Booksurge PublishingPublisher Booksurge PublishingWeight(grams) 490gDimensions(mm)... -
The Legends and Myths of Hawaii by David Kalakaua
RRP: £14.99£12.35A moving account of Hawaii's most culturally significant stories, presented by King David Kalakaua.The Legends and Myths of Hawaii introduces readers to the social, historical, and religious customs of native Hawaiians, revealing the history of a culture... -
Captive Paradise: A History of Hawaii by James L Haley 9781250070395
RRP: £22.99£14.49Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250070395Author James L HaleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 464Imprint St. Martin's GriffinPublisher St. Martin's GriffinWeight(grams) 390gDimensions(mm)... -
War At The End Of The World: Douglas MacArthur and the Forgotten Fight For New Guinea, 1942-1945 by James P. Duffy 9780593471722
RRP: £11.99£8.22Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593471722Author James P. DuffyFormat PaperbackPage Count 464Imprint Dutton / SignetPublisher Penguin Putnam Inc -
Lost Paradise: From Mutiny on the Bounty to a Modern-Day Legacy of Sexual Mayhem, the Dark Secrets of Pitcairn Island Revealed by Kathy Marks 9781416597476
RRP: £21.99£16.87Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781416597476Author Kathy MarksFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Free PressPublisher Free PressWeight(grams) 435gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 23mm -
Voyagers: The Settlement of the Pacific by Nicholas Thomas 9781541619838
RRP: £25.00£16.14Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781541619838Author Nicholas ThomasFormat HardbackPage Count 224Imprint Basic BooksPublisher Basic BooksWeight(grams) 340gDimensions(mm) 213mm * 142mm * 28mm -
Chasing the Bounty: The Voyages of the Pandora and Matavy by Donald A. Maxton 9781476679389
RRP: £28.99£23.38Popular films about the Bounty mutiny only scratch the surface. This rebellion on a British vessel in 1789 sparked the voyages of H.M.S. Pandora--dispatched to track down the mutineers and return them to England for court-martial--and the Matavy, a... -
False Start in Paradise: Cook Islands Self-government by Iaveta Short 9780473497576
RRP: £21.99£19.68Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780473497576Author Iaveta ShortFormat PaperbackPage Count 394Imprint Moana PublishingPublisher Moana PublishingWeight(grams) 708g -
The Falklands Conflict Twenty Years On: Lessons for the Future by Stephen Badsey 9780415350303
RRP: £47.99£41.81A fascinating new insight into the Falklands Conflict, covering every aspect of its origins and the political and diplomatic response to the Argentinean action as well as illuminating accounts of the military action to retake the islands, at every level... -
Pathway of the Birds: The Voyaging Achievements of Maori and their Polynesian Ancestors by Andrew Crowe 9780824878658
RRP: £42.95£37.24Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780824878658Author Andrew CroweFormat PaperbackPage Count 258Imprint University of Hawai'i PressPublisher University of Hawai'i PressDimensions(mm) 241mm *... -
Naven: A Survey of the Problems suggested by a Composite Picture of the Culture of a New Guinea Tribe drawn from Three Points of View by Gregory Bateson
RRP: £29.99£26.70"Naven" is the name of a peculiar ritual practiced by Iatmul, a head-hunting tribe of New Guinea.Th e ceremony is performed to congratulate members of the tribe upon the completion of notable accomplishments, among which homicide ranks highest... -
How Folklore Shaped Modern Art: A Post-Critical History of Aesthetics Wes Hill 9780815386551
RRP: £44.99£39.28Since the 1990s, artists and art writers around the world have increasingly undermined the essentialism associated with notions of "critical practice." We can see this manifesting in the renewed relevance of what were previously considered "outsider" art... -
Sea People: The Puzzle of Polynesia by Christina Thompson 9780062060877
£20.24A blend of Jared Diamond's Guns, Germs, and Steel and Simon Winchester's Pacific, a thrilling intellectual detective story that looks deep into the past to uncover who first settled the islands of the remote Pacific, where they came from, how they got... -
Polynesia, 900-1600 Madi Williams 9781641892148
£15.96Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781641892148Author Madi WilliamsFormat PaperbackPage Count 104Imprint Arc Humanities PressPublisher Arc Humanities Press -
Tears of Rangi: Experiments Across Worlds by Anne Salmond
RRP: £44.95£41.75Six centuries ago Polynesian explorers, who inhabited a cosmos in which islands sailed across the sea and stars across the sky, arrived in Aotearoa New Zealand where they rapidly adapted to new plants, animals, landscapes and climatic conditions. Four... -
Laughing at Leviathan: Sovereignty and Audience in West Papua by Danilyn Rutherford
RRP: £30.00£29.25For West Papua and its people, the promise of sovereignty has never been realized, despite a long and fraught struggle for independence from Indonesia. In "Laughing at Leviathan", Danilyn Rutherford examines this struggle through a series of interlocking... -
Coconut Colonialism: Workers and the Globalization of Samoa by Holger Droessler
RRP: £34.95£28.40A new history of globalization and empire at the crossroads of the Pacific.Located halfway between Hawai'i and Australia, the islands of Samoa have long been a center of Oceanian cultural and economic exchange. Accustomed to exercising agency in trade...