Oceanien

Loyal to the Land is a sweeping history of one of the United States' largest working ranches, the Big Island of Hawai'i's Parker Ranch. In this wide-ranging and insightful book, …

During the nineteenth century, British and American settlers acquired a vast amount of land from indigenous people throughout the Pacific, but in no two places did they acquire it …

President Franklin D. Roosevelt called 7 December 1941 "e;a date which will live in infamy"e;. Early that morning hundreds of Japanese fighter planes unexpectedly attacked …

Did U.S. intelligence know of Japan's coming attack on Pearl Harbor? Did President Roosevelt know? If so, why did he withhold warnings from the commanders in Hawaii? The answers …

Francophone Oceania Today: Literature, Visual Arts, Music and Cinema is a compilation of essays that breaks new ground in the exploration of recent and contemporary cultural …

Describe a pervasive way of conducting private and public affairs in which state and local office holders throughout Hawaii took their personal financial interests into account in …

Lonely Planet's Tahiti and French Polynesia is our most comprehensive guide that extensively covers all the region has to offer, with recommendations for both popular and …

In this first detailed account of growing up in Tonga, Helen Morton focuses on the influence of anga fakatonga (“the Tongan way”) in all facets of Tongan childhood, from the …

Ethnobotany of Pohnpei examines the relationship between plants, people, and traditional culture on Pohnpei, one of the four island members of the Federated States of Micronesia. …

Iâ??ve planted my feet on Fijian earth and I intend to stay here until the last sunset . When recently-widowed Kat writes to her four old school friends, inviting them to live with …