Paradise Past: The Transformation of the South Pacific, 1520-1920 Tapa blanda - 2012
de Robert W. Kirk
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In the 400 years from Magellan's entrance into Pacific waters to 1920, the lives of the people of the South Pacific were utterly transformed. Exotic diseases from Europe and America, particularly the worldwide influenza pandemic, were deadly for islanders. Ardent missionaries changed the belief systems and lives of nearly all Polynesians, Aborigines, and those Papuans and Melanesians living in areas accessible to westerners. By 1920 every island and atoll in the South Seas had been claimed as a colony or protectorate of a power such as Britain, France or the United States. Factors aiding this imperial sweep included European outposts such as Sydney, advances in maritime technology, the work of missionaries, a desire to profit from the area's relatively sparse resources, and international rivalry that led to the scramble for colonies. The coming of westerners, as this book points out, was not entirely negative, as head-hunting, cannibalism, chronic warfare, human sacrifice, and other practices were diminished--but whole cultures were irreversibly changed or even eradicated.
Detalles
- Título Paradise Past: The Transformation of the South Pacific, 1520-1920
- Autor Robert W. Kirk
- Encuadernación Tapa blanda
- Páginas 296
- Volúmenes 1
- Idioma ENG
- Editorial McFarland & Company
- Fecha de publicación 2012-10
- Ilustrado Sí
- Features Bibliography, Illustrated, Index, Maps, Table of Contents
- ISBN 9780786469789 / 0786469781
- Peso 1.15 libras (0.52 kg)
- Dimensiones 9.9 x 6.9 x 0.9 pulgadas (25.15 x 17.53 x 2.29 cm)
- Época de 18 a UP años
- Cursos 13 - UP
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Temas
- Cultural Region: Oceania
- Library of Congress subjects Oceania - Social conditions, Oceania - Colonization - History
- Número de catálogo de la Librería del Congreso de EEUU 2012034746
- Dewey Decimal Code 995
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