Oceania

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780994382504Author Leanne DuckworthFormat PaperbackPage Count 244Imprint Andrew DuckworthPublisher Andrew Duckworth

The intense rivalry in battleship building that took place between Britain and Germany in the run up to the First World War is seen by many as the most totemic of all armaments races. Blamed by numerous commentators during the inter-war years as a major...

In 1909 the British Admiralty placed an order for a rigid airship, marking the beginning of the Royal Navy's involvement with airpower. This collection charts the Navy's involvement with aviation over the following century, and the ways in which its...

Since its publication in 1911, Sir Julian's Corbett's Some Principles of Maritime Strategy has remained a key document within naval strategic thinking. Yet despite his undoubted influence, Corbett's theories have not been subjected to scientific review...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780824805289Author Dennis M. OgawaFormat HardbackPage Count 644Imprint University of Hawai'i PressPublisher University of Hawai'i Press

The stories of Kaua'i's ruling chiefs were passed from generation to generation in songs and narratives recited by trained storytellers either formally at the high chief's court or informally at family gatherings. Their chronology was ordered by a...

Jonathan Osorio investigates the effects of Western law on the national identity of Native Hawaiians in this impressive political history of the Kingdom of Hawai'i from the onset of constitutional government in 1840 to the Bayonet Constitution of 1887,...

What constitutes a resource, and how do people make claims on them? In the context of a burgeoning discourse of property, these are vital questions. Rationales of Ownership offers conceptual clarification in the context of material, intellectual and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780824874452Author Warwick AndersonFormat HardbackPage Count 352Imprint University of Hawai'i PressPublisher University of Hawai'i Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780731537518Author Brij V. LalFormat PaperbackPage Count 296Imprint Asia Pacific PressPublisher Asia Pacific Press

How does a man serving in the Imperial Japanese Army feel when he suddenly sees his brother in the uniform of the enemy United States? How does a Japanese mother, surrounded by barbed wire in an American internment camp for ""enemy aliens,"" feel when...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780731538188Author Sinclair DinnenFormat PaperbackPage Count 310Imprint Asia Pacific PressPublisher Asia Pacific Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780648546245Author Raobeia Ken SigrahFormat HardbackPage Count 472Imprint Banaban Vision PublicationsPublisher Banaban Vision PublicationsWeight(grams) 794g

Coral and Concrete, Greg Dvorak's cross-cultural history of Kwajalein Atoll, Marshall Islands, explores intersections of environment, identity, empire, and memory in the largest inhabited coral atoll on earth. Approaching the multiple...

[Peattie's] remarkably readable narrative goes far beyond military and diplomatic history. --Choice Peattie's comprehensive and fascinating book adds greatly to our knowledge of colonial governments in general, the Japanese empire in particular, and the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780994304520Author Hans-Ju Rgen OhffFormat HardbackPage Count 516Imprint Dooralong Pty LtdPublisher Dooralong Pty LtdWeight(grams) 1134g

What constitutes a resource, and how do people make claims on them? In the context of a burgeoning discourse of property, these are vital questions. Rationales of Ownership offers conceptual clarification in the context of material, intellectual and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780674418639Author Edwin HutchinsFormat HardbackPage Count 156Imprint Harvard University PressPublisher Harvard University PressWeight(grams) 170g

This study forms one unit of a research project initiated by the South Pacific Commission as part of its Social Development research program. The project was devised to provide a comprehensive survey of the work done to date in social anthropology as it...

When it first appeared, this historical overview of the evolution of Hawai'i's political economy opened a new and innovative perspective on Hawai'i's history and contemporary dilemmas. Now, a decade later, Kent adds an epilogue providing an overview of...

The stories of Kaua'i's ruling chiefs were passed from generation to generation in songs and narratives recited by trained storytellers either formally at the high chief's court or informally at family gatherings. Their chronology was ordered by a...

Jonathan Osorio investigates the effects of Western law on the national identity of Native Hawaiians in this impressive political history of the Kingdom of Hawai'i from the onset of constitutional government in 1840 to the Bayonet Constitution of 1887,...

Explores the changing ways in which Pacific Islanders have been seen and represented by outsiders over the last 200 years. The Pacific Islands has been a testing ground for various Western ideas and ideologies and the author looks at this long...

an impressive and much needed contribution to Korean american and Hawaii history and significantly advacnes our knowledge of theEast Asia immigrant experience in the US.Book InformationISBN 9780824822415Author Wayne PattersonFormat PaperbackPage Count...

Imperial spaces takes two of the most influential minority groups of white settlers in the British Empire - the Irish and the Scots - and explores how they imagined themselves within the landscapes of its farthest reaches, the Australian colonies of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780731537396Author Satish ChandFormat PaperbackPage Count 266Imprint Asia Pacific PressPublisher Asia Pacific Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780648546221Author Ken Sigrah RaobeiaFormat PaperbackPage Count 464Imprint Banaban Vision PublicationsPublisher Banaban Vision PublicationsWeight(grams) 617g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780648437628Author Lynne CairnsFormat PaperbackPage Count 254Imprint QuokpressPublisher QuokpressWeight(grams) 345g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780313236617Author Patricia A. StannerFormat HardbackPage Count 448Imprint Praeger Publishers IncPublisher ABC-CLIO

The well-known list of "cradles of civilization" primary states from which all modern nation states ultimately derive, has traditionally been limited to Egypt, Mesopotamia, the Indus Valley, China, Mesoamerica, and Andean South America...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781513209029Author LiliuokalaniFormat HardbackPage Count 280Imprint Mint EditionsPublisher Mint EditionsWeight(grams) 127g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781566477260Author Douglas PeeblesFormat HardbackPage Count 56Imprint Mutual PublishingPublisher Mutual Publishing

In 1909 the British Admiralty placed an order for a rigid airship, marking the beginning of the Royal Navy's involvement with airpower. This collection charts the Navy's involvement with aviation over the following century, and the ways in which its...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798869115997Author M Elisabeth HendersonFormat PaperbackPage Count 88Imprint M. Elisabeth HendersonPublisher M. Elisabeth HendersonWeight(grams) 127g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789357976596Author Sir Ernest ScottFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint Alpha EditionPublisher Alpha EditionWeight(grams) 268g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781990042492Author Te Rangi Hiroa Sir Peter BuckFormat PaperbackPage Count 392Imprint Oratia BooksPublisher Oratia MediaWeight(grams) 600g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789357924672Author E HulmeFormat PaperbackPage Count 38Imprint Alpha EditionPublisher Alpha EditionWeight(grams) 68g

This book is the first concise account of the history of the Fiji islands from the beginning of human settlement to the early years of the 21st century. Its primary focus is on the period since the advent of colonial rule in the late 19th century to the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9791041983513Author Ida LeeFormat PaperbackPage Count 170Imprint CultureaPublisher CultureaWeight(grams) 313g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798218322571Author Daniel C MarvinFormat HardbackPage Count 340Imprint Samandi PublishingPublisher Samandi PublishingWeight(grams) 1066g