The people of the sea : environment, identity and history in Oceania
Provides the synthetic study of ocean-people interaction in the region from 1770 to 1870. This book emphasizes Pacific Islanders' relationships with the sea during a transitional era following sustained European contact. The author constructs an conceptual framework to examine the ways in which the sea has framed and shaped Islander societies.
Print Book, English, ©2006
University of Hawaiʻi Press, Honolulu, ©2006
History
xvii, 292 s. : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
9780824829599, 082482959X
475811709
The oceanic environment
Local worlds : the sea in everyday life
Communication and relative isolation in the sea of islands
Seafaring in Oceania
Fluid frontiers : the sea as a contested space
Across the horizon : interactions with the outside world
Connected by the sea : towards a regional history of the Western Caroline Islands