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Book The Naturalist and His  beautiful Islands

Download or read book The Naturalist and His beautiful Islands written by David Russell Lawrence and published by ANU Press. This book was released on 2014-10-28 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ‘I know no place where firm and paternal government would sooner produce beneficial results then in the Solomons … Here is an object worthy indeed the devotion of one’s life’. Charles Morris Woodford devoted his working life to pursuing this dream, becoming the first British Resident Commissioner in 1897 and remaining in office until 1915, establishing the colonial state almost singlehandedly. His career in the Pacific extended beyond the Solomon Islands. He worked briefly for the Western Pacific High Commission in Fiji, was a temporary consul in Samoa, and travelled as a Government Agent on a small labour vessel returning indentured workers to the Gilbert Islands. As an independent naturalist he made three successful expeditions to the islands, and even climbed Mt Popomanaseu, the highest mountain in Guadalcanal. However, his natural history collection of over 20,000 specimens, held by the British Museum of Natural History, has not been comprehensively examined. The British Solomon Islands Protectorate was established in order to control the Pacific Labour Trade and to counter possible expansion by French and German colonialists. It remaining an impoverished, largely neglected protectorate in the Western Pacific whose economic importance was large-scale copra production, with its copra considered the second-worst in the world. This book is a study of Woodford, the man, and what drove his desire to establish a colonial protectorate in the Solomon Islands. In doing so, it also addresses ongoing issues: not so much why the independent state broke down, but how imperfectly it was put together in the first place.

Book Tulagi

    Book Details:
  • Author : Clive Moore
  • Publisher : ANU Press
  • Release : 2019-09-24
  • ISBN : 1760463094
  • Pages : 501 pages

Download or read book Tulagi written by Clive Moore and published by ANU Press. This book was released on 2019-09-24 with total page 501 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tulagi was the capital of the British Solomon Islands Protectorate between 1897 and 1942. The British withdrawal from the island during the Pacific War, its capture by the Japanese and the American reconquest left the island’s facilities damaged beyond repair. After the war, Britain moved the capital to the American military base on Guadalcanal, which became Honiara. The Tulagi settlement was an enclave of several small islands, the permanent population of which was never more than 600: 300 foreigners—one-third of European origin and most of the remainder Chinese—and an equivalent number of Solomon Islanders. Thousands of Solomon Islander males also passed through on their way to work on plantations and as boat crews, hospital patients and prisoners. The history of the Tulagi enclave provides an understanding of the origins of modern Solomon Islands. Tulagi was also a significant outpost of the British Empire in the Pacific, which enables a close analysis of race, sex and class and the process of British colonisation and government in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

Book Hunting the Collectors

    Book Details:
  • Author : Susan Cochrane
  • Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
  • Release : 2014-11-10
  • ISBN : 1443871001
  • Pages : 354 pages

Download or read book Hunting the Collectors written by Susan Cochrane and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2014-11-10 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume investigates Pacific collections held in Australian museums, art galleries and archives, and the diverse group of 19th and 20th century collectors responsible for their acquisition. The nineteen essays reveal varied personal and institutional motivations that eventually led to the conservation, preservation and exhibition in Australia of a remarkable archive of Pacific Island material objects, art and crafts, photographs and documents. Hunting the Collectors benchmarks the importance of Pacific Collections in Australia and is a timely contribution to the worldwide renaissance of interest in Oceanic arts and cultures. The essays suggest that the custodial role is not fixed and immutable but fluctuates with the perceived importance of the collection, which in turn fluctuates with the level of national interest in the Pacific neighbourhood. This cyclical rise and fall of Australian interest in the Pacific Islands means many of the valuable early collections in state and later national repositories and institutions have been rarely exhibited or published. But, as the authors note, enthusiastic museum anthropologists, curators, collection managers and university-based scholars across Australia, and worldwide, have persisted with research on material collected in the Pacific. This volume is a very important one for anyone studying the art and material culture of the Pacific. It focuses on collections now in Australia. Even those well versed in museum collections from the Pacific will learn about many important but little-known collectors as well as better-known figures like the anthropologists F. E. Williams and Thomas Farrell, the husband of Queen Emma. This will be a treat for students and specialist alike. —Professor Robert L. Welsch, University of Dartmouth

Book Battlefield Tourism

Download or read book Battlefield Tourism written by Chris Ryan and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2007 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book will be of interest to tourism researchers generally, but also to those researchers in the areas of cultural studies, military histories, social/human geographers and historical geographers.

Book The Journal of Tourism Studies

Download or read book The Journal of Tourism Studies written by and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book University of California Union Catalog of Monographs Cataloged by the Nine Campuses from 1963 Through 1967  Subjects

Download or read book University of California Union Catalog of Monographs Cataloged by the Nine Campuses from 1963 Through 1967 Subjects written by University of California (System). Institute of Library Research and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 886 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Journal of Pacific Studies

Download or read book Journal of Pacific Studies written by and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book They Came for Savages

Download or read book They Came for Savages written by Ngaire Douglas and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a historical survey of tourism in Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands and Vanuatu. The author argues that colonial experience and its legacy have determined the direction of tourism development and its level of achievement in each country. - The reviewer E. K. Silverman believes that this book will be a lasting contribution to studies of tourism in the Pacific. (DÜI-Sen).

Book Memoirs of the Polynesian Society

Download or read book Memoirs of the Polynesian Society written by and published by . This book was released on 1951 with total page 588 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book University of California Union Catalog of Monographs Cataloged by the Nine Campuses from 1963 Through 1967  Authors   titles

Download or read book University of California Union Catalog of Monographs Cataloged by the Nine Campuses from 1963 Through 1967 Authors titles written by University of California (System). Institute of Library Research and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 876 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Guide to the Collections

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  • Author : National Library of Australia
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1982
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 552 pages

Download or read book Guide to the Collections written by National Library of Australia and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 552 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Body Ornaments of Malaita  Solomon Islands

Download or read book Body Ornaments of Malaita Solomon Islands written by Ben Burt and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 2009 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book reviews the significance of body ornaments in Kwara'ae society and the history of their disappearance under the social transformation of colonial rule and Christian conversion. It describes the materials, techniques and relationships by which ornaments were produced and exchanged and contains detailed drawings of the enormous variety of ornaments worn throughout Malaita.

Book Library of Congress Catalog  Motion Pictures and Filmstrips

Download or read book Library of Congress Catalog Motion Pictures and Filmstrips written by Library of Congress and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 712 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Australian national bibliography

Download or read book Australian national bibliography written by and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 1810 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book An American Anthropologist in Melanesia  Appendixes

Download or read book An American Anthropologist in Melanesia Appendixes written by Albert Buell Lewis and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: