Grass Huts and Warehouses [electronic resource] : Pacific Beach Communities of the Nineteenth Century
Caroline Ralston2014
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A pioneering study of early trade and beach communities in the Pacific Islands
and first published in 1977, this book provides historians with an ambitious
survey of early European-Polynesian contact, an analysis of how early trade
developed along with the beachcomber community, and a detailed reconstruction of
development of the early Pacific port towns. Set mainly in the first half of the
19th century, continuing in some cases for a few decades more, the book covers
five ports: Kororareka (now Russell, in New Zealand), Levuka (Fiji), Apia
(Samoa), Papeete (Tahiti) and Honolulu (Hawai'i). The role of beachcombers, the
earliest European inhabitants, as well as the later consuls or commercial
agents, and the development of plantation economies is explored. The book is a
tour de force, the first detailed comparative academic study of these early
precolonial trading towns and their race relations. It argues that the
predominantly egalitarian towns where Islanders, beachcombers...
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Author:
Caroline Ralston, Author
Imprint:
[Place of publication not identified] : University of Queensland Press, 2014
Collation:
1 online resource (1 text file) (288 pages,)
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Platform: epubMode of access: Internet
ISBN:
9781921902321
Language:
English
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BRN:
436047
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