Download or read book New Guinea written by Clive Moore and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 2003-07-31 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New Guinea, the world's largest tropical island, is a land of great contrasts, ranging from small glaciers on its highest peaks to broad mangrove swamps in its lowlands and hundreds of smaller islands and coral atolls along its coasts. Divided between two nations, the island and its neighboring archipelagos form Indonesia’s Papua Province (or Irian Jaya) and the independent nation of Papua New Guinea, both former European colonies. Most books on New Guinea have been guided by these and other divisions, separating east from west, prehistoric from historic, precontact from postcontact, colonial from postcolonial. This is the first work to consider New Guinea and its 40,000-year history in its entirety. The volume opens with a look at the Melanesian region and argues that interlocking exchange systems and associated human interchanges are the "invisible government" through which New Guinea societies operate. Succeeding chapters review the history of encounters between outsiders and New Guinea's populations. They consider the history of Malay involvement with New Guinea over the past two thousand years, demonstrating the extent to which west New Guinea in particular was incorporated into Malay trading and raiding networks prior to Western contact. The impact of colonial rule, economic and social change, World War II, decolonization, and independence are discussed in the final chapter.

Download or read book The Journal of the Royal Geographical Society written by Royal Geographical Society and published by . This book was released on 1874 with total page 544 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book The Journal of the Royal Geographic Society of London written by Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain) and published by . This book was released on 1874 with total page 542 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes list of members.

Download or read book Discoveries and Surveys in New Guinea and the D Entrecasteaux Islands written by John Moresby and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2021-11-09 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Discoveries and Surveys in New Guinea and the D'Entrecasteaux Islands" is a historical account of one of the great discoveries of the Australian continent. The report was written by John Moresby, a British naval officer who explored the coast of New Guinea and was the first European to discover the site of Port.

Download or read book The First Discovery of Australia and New Guinea written by George Collingridge and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2019-11-26 with total page 115 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The First Discovery of Australia and New Guinea" by George Collingridge is a narrative of Portuguese and Spanish Discoveries in the Australasian Regions, between the Years 1492-1606, with Descriptions of their Old Charts. This study of the Discovery of Australia shows that early Portuguese navigators were the first Europeans to sight Australia between 1521 and 1524, well before the arrival of Dutch navigator Willem Janszoon in 1606 on board the Duyfken who is generally considered to be the discoverer.

Download or read book Unpacking the Collection written by Sarah Byrne and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2011-06-27 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Museum collections are often perceived as static entities hidden away in storerooms or trapped behind glass cases. By focusing on the dynamic histories of museum collections, new research reveals their pivotal role in shaping a wide range of social relations. Over time and across space the interactions between these artefacts and the people and institutions who made, traded, collected, researched and exhibited them have generated complex networks of material and social agency. In this innovative volume, the contributors draw on a broad range of source materials to explore the cross-cultural interactions which have created museum collections. These case studies contribute significantly to the development of new theoretical frameworks to examine broader questions of materiality, agency, and identity in the past and present. Grounded in case studies from individual objects and museum collections from North America, Europe, Africa, the Pacific Islands, and Australia, this truly international volume juxtaposes historical, geographical, and cross-cultural studies. This work will be of great interest to archaeologists and anthropologists studying material culture, as well as researchers in museum studies and cultural heritage management.

Download or read book The First Discovery of Australia and New Guinea Being the Narrative of Portuguese and Spanish Discoveries in the Australasian Regions Between the Years 1492 1606 With Descriptions of Their Old Charts written by George Collingridge and published by Library of Alexandria. This book was released on 1906-01-01 with total page 107 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book New discoveries concerning the world and its inhabitants In two parts Part I containing a circumstantial account of all the Islands in the South Sea that have been lately discovered comprehending all the discoveries made in the voyages of Commodore Byron Captains Wallis Carteret and Cook together with those of M De Bougainville Part II containing a summary account of Captain Cook s attempts to discover a Southern Continent in 1773 1774 and 1775 etc written by and published by . This book was released on 1778 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Journal of the Royal Geographical Society written by Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain) and published by . This book was released on 1834 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes list of members.

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Download or read book Papua a Handbook to Its History Inhabitants Physical Features and Resources Etc written by William Charles Pritchard and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Social History of the Races of Mankind Second Division Papuo and Malayo Melanesians written by Americus Featherman and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2024-04-24 with total page 526 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1887.