Donald Denoon is Professor of Pacific Islands History in the Research School of Pacific Studies, Australian National University. His previous books include "Southern Africa Since 1800" (with Balam Nyeko, 1972 and 1984 ), "Settler Capitalism" (1981), "The Cambridge History of the Pacific Islanders" (Ed. 1997), and "Getting Under the Skin: the Bougainville Copper Agreement and the Creation of the Panguna Mine" (2000).
Dr Philippa Mein Smith teaches New Zealand and Australian history, and social history of medicine in the Department of History, University of Canterbury, New Zealand. Her previou...