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OverviewA 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, traders, and missionaries mixed were largely harmonious, but this was undermined by later arrivals and larger populations. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Caroline RalstonPublisher: University of Queensland Press Imprint: University of Queensland Press Dimensions: Width: 12.70cm , Height: 1.50cm , Length: 19.70cm Weight: 0.308kg ISBN: 9781921902314ISBN 10: 1921902310 Pages: 288 Publication Date: 01 October 2014 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsReviewsAuthor InformationCaroline Ralston lectured in the department of politics and history at Macquarie University, Australia and is a coeditor of Sanctity and Power: Gender in Polynesian History. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |