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21. William John Mckell: Boilermaker,
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22. The Price of Health: Australian
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23. The Empire of Political Thought:
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24. Cabinet Government in Australia,
 
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25. British Policy in the South Pacific,
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26. Australia, Oceania, & Antarctica:
 
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27. The Tree and the Canoe: History
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28. Reimagining the American Pacific:
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29. Pacific Islands Regional Integration
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30. Patrons, Clients, and Empire:
 
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31. Critical Issues in Philippine
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32. Doing Business And Investing in
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33. State of Suffering: Political
 
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34. Caribbean and Oceania Countries
 
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35. Asia and the Pacific (Handbooks
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36. The Eighth Land: The Polynesian
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37. Rule of Law, Legitimate Governance
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38. Missouri Investment and Business
 
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39. Bad Colonists: The South Seas
 
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21. William John Mckell: Boilermaker, Premier, Governor-General
by C Cunneen
Paperback: 304 Pages (2000-09-01)
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22. The Price of Health: Australian Governments and Medical Politics 1910-1960 (Studies in Australian History)
by James A. Gillespie
Paperback: 380 Pages (2002-06-30)
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Asin: 0521523222
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This bookprovides background to the current debate on health policy by studying the political conflict over it in Australia from 1910 to 1960. It looks at both state and national levels to identify the main structures and forces that shaped the system of publicly-subsidized private practice, which is now most obvious in the fee-for-service scheme. ... Read more


23. The Empire of Political Thought: Indigenous Australians and the Language of Colonial Government (Empires in Perspective)
by Bruce Buchan
Hardcover: 262 Pages (2008-07-31)
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Asin: 185196925X
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Empire of Political Thought investigates how European colonists in Australia represented the indigenous peoples they found there, and how they governed them using Western political thought. Buchan argues that an ideological framework drawn from Western traditions rendered indigenous peoples familiar to Europeans. Rather than effacing indigenous difference, colonists employed a conceptual language that recognised those differences but assimilated them and rendered them as deficiencies. This is the first study to link the imperial government in Australia with comparative colonial contexts in North America. The contemporary relevance of this book is underscored by the continuing efforts of Indigenous peoples in Australia and elsewhere to articulate their visions of political and cultural self-government and self-determination. ... Read more


24. Cabinet Government in Australia, 1901-2006: Practice, Principles, Performance
by Patrick Weller
Paperback: 304 Pages (2007-02-01)
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Asin: 0868408743
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This book presents the first comprehensive study of the development of the central institution of Australian government over the first century of its life. Based on the author's archival research and 30 years of experience writing about central government in Australia, it provides an understanding of both the history and the working of the institution.

Patrick Weller has written a detailed history, as well as a politics primer. It is packed with political insights and anecdotes, with lively portraits of prime ministers and their cabinet colleagues along with the airing of many fascinating details of memos and meetings long buried in the archives. No prime minister escapes his forensic examination. Cabinet Government in Australia will provide the first comprehensive account of the development of the institution of cabinet in Australia, and should long stand as the principle source for understanding how Australia is governed. ... Read more


25. British Policy in the South Pacific, 1786-1893: A Study in British Policy towards the South Pacific Islands prior to the Establishment of Governments by ... to the Establishment of Governments By)
by John M. Ward
 Hardcover: 368 Pages (1976-12-08)
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Asin: 0837188210
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This book traces British policy towards the South Pacific islands from 1786 through 1893, emphasizing the official attitude towards the missionaries and other British residents, the loss of the East India Company monopoly, the first attempts at island government, and the establishment of colonial rule. ... Read more


26. Australia, Oceania, & Antarctica: A Continental Overview of Environmental Issues (The World's Environments)
by Kevin Hillstrom, Laurie Collier Hillstrom
Hardcover: 269 Pages (2003-11-19)
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Asin: 1576076946
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They are vast, distant, and scarcely populated. Yet the environments of Australia, Oceania, and Antarctica are facing the same threats confronting the rest of the planet, as well as some unique ones of their own. How have human-introduced species impacted Australia's natural order? What new global conventions are helping close Antarctica's ozone hole? And how is global climate change threatening the South Pacific's species-rich coral reefs?

The region's governments are grappling with the spectre of global warming, which, if not meaningfullly addressed by industrialized nations half a world away, could produce rising sea levels capable of engulfing several states of Oceania and partially submerging portions of many other inhabited islands. Australia, Oceania, and Antarctica tackles the difficult issues, tough problems, and political controversies surrounding these lands of extremes.

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27. The Tree and the Canoe: History and Ethnogeography of Tanna (South Sea Books)
by Joel Bonnemaison
 Hardcover: 392 Pages (1994-10)
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Asin: 0824815254
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28. Reimagining the American Pacific: From <I>South Pacific</I> to Bamboo Ridge and Beyond (New Americanists)
by Rob Wilson
Paperback: 320 Pages (2000-01-01)
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Asin: 0822325233
Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars
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In this compelling critique Rob Wilson explores the creation of the “Pacific Rim” in the American imagination and how the concept has been variously adapted and resisted in Hawai‘i, the Pacific Islands, New Zealand, and Australia. Reimagining the American Pacific ranges from the nineteenth century to the present and draws on theories of postmodernism, transnationality, and post-Marxist geography to contribute to the ongoing discussion of what constitutes “global” and “local.”
Wilson begins by tracing the arrival of American commerce and culture in the Pacific through missionary and imperial forces in the nineteenth century and the parallel development of Asia/Pacific as an idea. Using an impressive range of texts—from works by Herman Melville, James Michener, Maori and Western Samoan novelists, and Bamboo Ridge poets to Baywatch, films and musicals such as South Pacific and Blue Hawaii, and native Hawaiian shark god poetry—Wilson illustrates what it means for a space to be “regionalized.” Claiming that such places become more open to transnational flows of information, labor, finance, media, and global commodities, he explains how they then become isolated, their borders simultaneously crossed and fixed. In the case of Hawai’i, Wilson argues that culturally innovative, risky forms of symbol making and a broader—more global—vision of local plight are needed to counterbalance the racism and increasing imbalance of cultural capital and goods in the emerging postplantation and tourist-centered economy.
Reimagining the American Pacific leaves the reader with a new understanding of the complex interactions of global and local economies and cultures in a region that, since the 1970s, has been a leading trading partner of the United States. It is an engaging and provocative contribution to the fields of Asian and American studies, as well as those of cultural studies and theory, literary criticism, and popular culture.


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5-0 out of 5 stars Global,national and local forces finely articulated
Global, US national, and local forces are finely articulated in this rich study of the literatures of Hawai'i and the counter-canons of Pacific possibility.While drenched in academic discourse and theory-speak, Wilson's wry humor and lyricism come through in chapter after chapter revealing the contestatory forces of an American Pacific coming unglued in the post-imperial era.This is an important work, deftly wrought, building upon and transforming what cultural studies can be in the trajectories of Birmingham into Asia/Pacific contexts. ... Read more


29. Pacific Islands Regional Integration And Governance
Paperback: 266 Pages (2006-03-30)
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30. Patrons, Clients, and Empire: Chieftaincy and Over-rule in Asia, Africa, and the Pacific
by Colin Newbury
Hardcover: 344 Pages (2003-04-10)
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Asin: 0199257817
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This is a wide-ranging comparative study of relationships between the indigenous leadership of traditional states and colonizing Europeans from the seventeenth to the twentieth century. It challenges stereotypes of despotic imperial power in Asian, African, and Pacific colonies and seeks to answer the fundamental question: how were European officials able to govern so many societies over such a long period of time? Colin Newbury examines the politics of pre-colonial state structures, their subversion by merchants and administrators, and the use made of indigenous leaders, and assesses the legacy of these colonial hierarchies. ... Read more


31. Critical Issues in Philippine Research: A Selected and Annotated Literature Review on the Women's Movement, Conflict in Luzon's Cordillera, Muslim Autonomy, ... Asia Studies), Occasional Paper No. 19.)
by James Norman Dalrymple Anderson, Robert Ronald Reed, Gaspar L. Sardalla
 Paperback: 221 Pages (1996-06)
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32. Doing Business And Investing in Australia (World Business, Investment and Government Library)
by Ibp Usa
Paperback: 300 Pages (2009-01-01)
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33. State of Suffering: Political Violence and Community Survival in Fiji
by Susanna Trnka
Paperback: 214 Pages (2008-11)
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How do ordinary people respond when their lives are irrevocably altered by terror and violence? Susanna Trnka was residing in an Indo-Fijian village in the year 2000 during the Fijian nationalist coup. The overthrow of the elected multiethnic party led to six months of nationalist aggression, much of which was directed toward Indo-Fijians. In State of Suffering , Trnka shows how Indo-Fijians' lives were overturned as waves of turmoil and destruction swept across Fiji.

Describing the myriad social processes through which violence is articulated and ascribed meaning-including expressions of incredulity, circulation of rumors, narratives, and exchanges of laughter and jokes-Trnka reveals the ways in which the community engages in these practices as individuals experience, and try to understand, the consequences of the coup. She then considers different kinds of pain caused by political chaos and social turbulence, including pain resulting from bodily harm, shared terror, and the distress precipitated by economic crisis and social dislocation.

Throughout this book, Trnka focuses on the collective social process through which violence is embodied, articulated, and silenced by those it targets. Her sensitive ethnography is a valuable addition to the global conversation about the impact of political violence on community life. ... Read more


34. Caribbean and Oceania Countries Chambers of Commerce Directory
 Paperback: 300 Pages (2009-03-20)
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35. Asia and the Pacific (Handbooks to the Modern World)
 Hardcover: 1928 Pages (1991-02)
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Asin: 0816016224
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This two-volume resource focuses on what is perhaps the world's most diverse region. Combining overviews of each nation in the region with general analyses, "Asia and the Pacific" offers a new understanding of the Asian continent as well as the constituent states of Australasia and the Pacific Island nations. The diversity and dynamics of the world are addressed in full, along with its ancient and highly sophisticated cultures, from the economic dominance of Japan to the world's most rapidly industrializing economies now concentrated around the Pacific Rim. Contrasted with this newly emerging affluence is the region's chronic problem of poverty, overpopulation and occasional conflict. The handbook examines the specific characteristics of each country in the region as well as the general features of the four areas that it comprises - Southeast Asia, South Asia, Australasia and the Pacific. ... Read more


36. The Eighth Land: The Polynesian Discovery and Settlement of Easter Island
by Thomas S. Barthel
Hardcover: 383 Pages (1986-04)
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Asin: 0824805534
Average Customer Review: 2.0 out of 5 stars
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2-0 out of 5 stars Much speculation on little evidence poorly presented
This 372-page hardback consisting of 10 chapters totalling 286 pages, two appendices of 24 and 46 pages respectively, a lengthy bibliography and a good index, is an attempt at reconstituting the prehistory of Polynesian migration to Easter Island in the light of the evidence from a modern indigenous manuscript ("Manuscript E") of uncertain authorship, reproduced in full in the second appendix, pp. 304-356, the first mention of which dates only from 1954 or 1955. Its translation, alas, instead of being presented with the original text, is scattered, piecemeal, throughout the diverse chapters of the book, so that only the most dedicated reader will likely go through the immensely time-consuming task of verifying it. This is all the more galling that, in many places, Barthel himself marks his own translation as doubtful (?). Evidence is drawn from other sources, sometimes without any translation at all (viz p.150, six verses, pp. 76 to 92: eighty-four verses without a single translation!), or with only partial translations (viz p.146, five verses, only two translated),or some in Spanish, without any English (viz p.196, fourteen verses with only a Spanish translation). Even the opening, p. vi, consisting of 10 verses (evaru kainga / etahi i ravaa...), is only accompanied by a German translation! Barthel's interpretations are thus, for all practical purposes, unverifiable by any but the most dedicated and knowledgeable reader with a great deal of time to spare. Or should I say waste? Indeed, in the last chapter, Barthel derives from Manuscript E the exact dates of Hotu Matua's migration to Easter Island: departure from Hiva on April 25, arrival at Rano Kau on June 10, arrival at Anakena on July 23, etc. Those dates are calculated as if there were a regular correspondence between the ancient Easter Island calendar and ours, valid year in, year out. But there can be no such correspondence, because the ancient Easter Island calendar was lunisolar (like the Jewish and ancient Greek ones), with twelve lunar months of 29 or 30 days, and a thirteenth embolismic month inserted about every third year to keep with the seasons. This book is valuable only insofar as it gives the full text of Manuscript E in transcription (a straight photographic reproduction would have been better). Barthel's one seminal, indispensable work - Grundlagen zur Entzifferung der Osterinselschrift - remains, alas, untranslated. ... Read more


37. Rule of Law, Legitimate Governance And Development in the Pacific
by Iutisone Salevao
Paperback: 195 Pages (2006-02-28)
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Asin: 0731537211
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38. Missouri Investment and Business Guide (US Business and Investment Library)
Paperback: 328 Pages (2004-01-01)
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Ultimate investment and business guide for conducting business in the state. Business, investment and export-import opportunities. State economy, government structure, mineral resources, technology, government, political and business contacts and more... ... Read more


39. Bad Colonists: The South Seas Letters of Vernon Lee Walker and Louis Becke
by Nicholas Thomas, Richard Eves
 Hardcover: 192 Pages (1999-01-01)
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In Bad Colonists Nicholas Thomas and Richard Eves provide a window into the fantasies and realities of colonial life by presenting separate sets of letters by two late-nineteenth-century British colonists of the South Pacific: Vernon Lee Walker and Louis Becke. Thomas and Eves frame the letters—addressed mostly to the colonists’ mothers—with commentary that explores colonial degeneration in the South Pacific. Using critical anthropology and theories of history-making to view the letter as artifact and autobiography, they examine the process whereby men and women unraveled in the hot, violent, uncivil colonial milieu.
An obscure colonial trader, Walker wrote to his mother in England from Australia, the New Hebrides (now Vanuatu), and New Caledonia—and also from ships in between those places—during the 1870s and 1880s. Becke was a trader, too, but he was also a successful author of popular fiction that drew on his experiences in the Pacific. Written from Micronesia in the early 1880s, Becke’s letters are like Walker’s in that they report one setback after another. Both collections vividly evoke the day-to-day experiences of ordinary late-nineteenth-century colonists and open up new questions concerning the making and writing of selves on the colonial periphery.
Exposing insecurities in an epoch normally regarded as one of imperial triumph, Bad Colonists will appeal to students and scholars of anthropology, colonial history, cultural studies, and Pacific history and culture.
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40. Highlanders and Foreigners in the Upper Ramu: The Kainantu Area 1919-1942
by Robin Radford
 Hardcover: 220 Pages (1987-05)
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Isbn: 0522842992
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