New Flags Flying: Pacific leadership by Ian Johnstone and Michael Powles (editors)

$20.00 NZD

Category: Pacific | Reading Level: very good

"From 1960 to 1990, islands across the Pacific gained independence or self-government. In the years following this, Ian Johnstone and Michael Powles interviewed the Pacific people in key leadership positions in the lead-up to and achievement of independence. This book presents a nation-by-nation history of this change from being colonial subjects to citizens of Pacific nations from the point of view of the leaders involved. Accompanied by photographs and background information about the Pacific nations, the book explores the leaders’ views on independence and the process of gaining it. The accompanying CD contains excerpts from the interviews"--Publisher information ...Show more

Sexual Encounters - Pacific Texts, Modern Sexualities by Lee Wallace

$20.00 NZD

Category: Pacific | Reading Level: very good

The Expedition of the St.Jean-Baptiste to the Pacific 1769-1770 from Journals of Jean de Surville and Guillaume Labe by John Dunmore

$30.00 NZD

Category: Nautical | Reading Level: very good

Storms and Dreams: Louis De Bougainville: Soldier, Explorer, Statesman by John Dunmore

$30.00 NZD

Category: Naval | Reading Level: very good

Louis-Antoine Comte de Bougainville (1729-1811) is best known for his circumnavigation of the globe from 1766 to 1769. Throughout a long and distinguished life, however, he participated in many of the turning points of world history: the birth of the United States, the fall of French Canada, the opening of the Pacific, the French revolution and the Revolutionary Wars, the crowning of Napoleon and the modernisation of France . Bougainville was also a witty and charming courtier, becoming one of Napoleon's senators. A true Man of the Enlightenment, he was gifted in navigation, seamanship, soldiering, mathematics, longitude and latitude – many of the arts that made his age one of most productive and creative in modern history. John Dunmore, a distinguished historian and an expert in French Pacific exploration, brings the man and his era to life in this vivid and elegantly written biography. ...Show more

The Coast Watchers by Eric Feldt

$20.00 NZD

Category: Australia | Reading Level: good

Isles of the Frigate Bird by Ronald Syme

$20.00 NZD

Category: Pacific | Reading Level: very good

Sacred Queens and Women of Consequence - Rank, Gender, and Colonialism in the Hawaiian Islands by Jocelyn Linnekin

$15.00 NZD

Category: Pacific | Series: Women and Culture Ser. | Reading Level: very good

Sacred Queens and Women of Consequence is a pathbreaking examination of the contact encounter in Hawaii from the perspective of Hawaiian women. Jocelyn Linnekin offers a reconstruction of Hawaiian women's authority and status before contact with the West and examines changes in their cultural valuation and social position during the first century of Western contact. Through a detailed analysis of women's roles in exchange, production, kinship, and politics during the political and economic transformations of the nineteenth century, Linnekin challenges the view that Polynesian women were doomed to a peripheral status by the ritual logic of pollution. She demonstrates how Hawaiian women maintained their position as points of access to land and power, while frequently resisting the constraints of the tabu system as well as later Western-influenced attempts to abridge their authority.This book is a unique and important contribution to the scholarship on Hawaiian history as well as to the growing literature on women and colonialism and women and social stratification. It will appeal to scholars and students who work in the areas of gender studies, social stratification, cultural change, Oceania, and historical anthropology. ...Show more

Omai, Pacific Envoy by E H McCormick

$45.00 NZD

Category: Pacific | Reading Level: very good

The Betrayal of Liliuokalani - Last Queen of Hawaii, 1838-1917 by Helena G. Allen

$10.00 NZD

Category: Pacific | Reading Level: very good

Hawaii's Story by Hawaii's Queen by Lilliuokalani

$10.00 NZD

Category: Pacific | Reading Level: very good

The Legends and Myths of Hawaii: The Fables and Folk-lore of a strange people by David Kalakaua; R. M. Daggett (Editor, Illustrator); David Kala King

$12.00 NZD

Category: Pacific | Reading Level: very good

The history of Hawaii describes the era of human settlements in the Hawaiian Islands. That history begins sometime between 124 and 800 CE, with some theories dating the earliest Polynesian settlements to the 10th or even 13th century. Around 1200, Tahitian explorers found and began settling the area. Th is began the rise of the Hawaiian civilization. It remained isolated from the rest of the world for another 500 years ...Show more

Hawaiian Historical Legends by William D. Westervelt

$10.00 NZD

Category: Pacific | Reading Level: very good