Oceania

"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...

The 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 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...

Apologies 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

Drawing 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...

There 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...

Apologies 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)...

In 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...

Today, 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...

Apologies 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

Apologies 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

Centering 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 examines the American, international, and Hawaiian representations of David La`amea Kamanakapu Mahinulani Nalaiaehuokalani Lumialani Kalakaua in English- and Hawaiian-language...

The 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...

From 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...

Apologies 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 *...

This 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...

Historians 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...

The 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...

Davida 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 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...

A 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...

Davida 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...

Apologies 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)...

A 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...

Apologies 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)...

Apologies 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

Apologies 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

Apologies 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

Popular 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...

Apologies 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

A 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...

Apologies 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" 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...

Since 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...

A 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...

Apologies 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

Six 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...

For 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...

A 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...