End of the Line: A History of Railways in Papua New Guinea
ISBN: 9789980840967 / Angielski / Miękka / 178 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Papua New Guinea is commonly thought to be a land without railways. At the very least, railways do not immediately come to mind as a topic for historical research in Papua New Guinea. Nevertheless, we set out to document and record something of the history of local railways in 1971, initially as individual projects. Inevitably, our interest in the topic of railways brought us together and we have been working collaboratively on our research since 1980.
At first the task was to identify and document the railways which have operated in Papua New Guinea. To our surprise, we now have records of... Papua New Guinea is commonly thought to be a land without railways. At the very least, railways do not immediately come to mind as a topic for histori...
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Lost Kingdom: Hawaiia's Last Queen, the Sugar Kings, and Americaa's First Imperial Venture
ISBN: 9780802120700 / Angielski / Miękka / 415 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "Only one American state was formally a sovereign monarchy. In this compelling narrative, the award-winning journalist Julia Flynn Siler chronicles how this Pacific kingdom, creation of a proud Polynesian people, was encountered, annexed, and absorbed." --Kevin Starr, historian, University of Southern California Around 200 A.D., intrepid Polynesians paddled thousands of miles across the Pacific and arrived at an undisturbed archipelago. For centuries, their descendants lived with almost no contact from the Western world but in 1778 their profound isolation was shattered with the arrival...
"Only one American state was formally a sovereign monarchy. In this compelling narrative, the award-winning journalist Julia Flynn Siler chronicles ho...
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Voyagers of the Titanic
ISBN: 9780061876868 / Angielski / Miękka / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. It has been one hundred years since the sinking of the passenger liner Titanic in the North Atlantic, yet worldwide fascination with the epic tragedy remains as strong as ever. With Voyagers of the Titanic, Richard Davenport-Hines gives us a magnificent history of the people intimately connected with the infamous ship--from deal-makers and industry giants, like J.P. Morgan, who built and operated it; to Molly Brown, John Jacob Astor IV, and other glittering aristocrats who occupied its first class cabins; to the men and women traveling below decks hoping to find a better... It has been one hundred years since the sinking of the passenger liner Titanic in the North Atlantic, yet worldwide fascination with the e... |
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Fijian-English Dictionary: With Notes on Fijian Culture and Natural History
ISBN: 9789829804716 / Angielski / Miękka / 342 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Southeast Asia Program, Cornell University, recommends Ronald Gatty's Fijian-English Dictionary as the most up-to-date lexicographic source for the language, a reliable, practical guide that includes helpful notes on word usage and Fijian culture. The Southeast Asia Program, Cornell University, recommends Ronald Gatty's Fijian-English Dictionary as the most up-to-date lexicographic ... |
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The Echo of Things: The Lives of Photographs in the Solomon Islands
ISBN: 9780822354963 / Angielski / Twarda / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "The Echo of Things" is a compelling ethnographic study of what photography means to the people of Roviana Lagoon in the western Solomon Islands. Christopher Wright examines the contemporary uses of photography and expectations of the medium in Roviana, as well as people's reactions to photographs made by colonial powers in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. For Roviana people, photographs are unique objects; they are not reproducible, as they are in Euro-American understandings of the medium. Their status as singular objects contributes to their ability to channel ancestral...
"The Echo of Things" is a compelling ethnographic study of what photography means to the people of Roviana Lagoon in the western Solomon Islands. Chri...
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492,49 zł |
The Echo of Things: The Lives of Photographs in the Solomon Islands
ISBN: 9780822355106 / Angielski / Miękka / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "The Echo of Things" is a compelling ethnographic study of what photography means to the people of Roviana Lagoon in the western Solomon Islands. Christopher Wright examines the contemporary uses of photography and expectations of the medium in Roviana, as well as people's reactions to photographs made by colonial powers in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. For Roviana people, photographs are unique objects; they are not reproducible, as they are in Euro-American understandings of the medium. Their status as singular objects contributes to their ability to channel ancestral...
"The Echo of Things" is a compelling ethnographic study of what photography means to the people of Roviana Lagoon in the western Solomon Islands. Chri...
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126,88 zł |
Education in Pacific Island States: Reflections on the Failure of 'Grand Remedies'
ISBN: 9780866382298 / Angielski / Miękka / 72 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Victor Levine asks a fundamental question of increasing importance to a globalizing region: How can Pacific Island states provide decent public education to their children? Based on broad international experience, he examines the evidence regarding what does and does not work in public education. While the literature suggests numerous instances of declining quality in Pacific public-education systems, Levine finds some basis for optimism about what is possible. The underlying causes for generally declining standards do not point to a single factor. And additional funding is not necessarily...
Victor Levine asks a fundamental question of increasing importance to a globalizing region: How can Pacific Island states provide decent public educat...
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Papua New Guinea: Initiation and Independence
ISBN: 9781921902185 / Angielski / Miękka / 268 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. First published in 1976, "Papua New Guinea" was the first book to interpret the key events that led to the nation s independence in 1975. In the book, journalist Don Woolford, a correspondent for the Australian Associated Press in Papua New Guinea, describes the ferment and excitement of the 1960s and 1970s, chronicling the former Australian territory s political development from the first general election for a representative House of Assembly in 1964 through independence. Key figures in the transition, including Michael Somare, John Guise, Albert Maori Kiki, and Josephine Abaijah, make an...
First published in 1976, "Papua New Guinea" was the first book to interpret the key events that led to the nation s independence in 1975. In the book,...
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150,31 zł |
The Indian Ocean in World History
ISBN: 9780195337877 / Angielski / Miękka / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Indian Ocean remains the least studied of the world's geographic regions. Yet there have been major cultural exchanges across its waters and around its shores from the third millennium B.C.E. to the present day. Historian Edward A. Alpers explores the complex issues involved in cultural exchange in the Indian Ocean Rim region over the course of this long period of time by combining a historical approach with the insights of anthropology, art history, ethnomusicology, and geography. The Indian Ocean witnessed several significant diasporas during the past two millennia, including...
The Indian Ocean remains the least studied of the world's geographic regions. Yet there have been major cultural exchanges across its waters and aroun...
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Tupaia: Captain Cook's Polynesian Navigator
ISBN: 9780313387487 / Angielski / Twarda / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Tupaia was the brilliant Polynesian navigator and translator who sailed with Captain James Cook from Tahiti, piloted the "Endeavour" across the South Pacific, and interceded on behalf of the European voyagers with the warrior Maori of New Zealand. As a man of high social ranking, Tupaia was also invaluable as an intermediary, interpreting local rituals and ceremonies. Joseph Banks, the botanist with Cook's expedition, is famous for describing the manners and customs of the Polynesian people in detail. Much of the credit for this information rightfully belongs to Tupaia--indeed, he could... Tupaia was the brilliant Polynesian navigator and translator who sailed with Captain James Cook from Tahiti, piloted the "Endeavour" across the Sou... |
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Theatre in Dublin, 1745-1820: A Calendar of Performances
ISBN: 9781611461107 / Angielski / Twarda / 737 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Theatre in Dublin,1745 1820: A Calendar of Performances is the first comprehensive, daily compendium of more than 18,000 performances that took place in Dublin s many professional theatres, music halls, pleasure gardens, and circus amphitheatres between Thomas Sheridan s becoming the manager at Smock Alley Theatre in 1745 and the dissolution of the Crow Street Theatre in 1820. The daily performance calendar for each of the seventy-five seasons recorded here records and organizes all surviving documentary evidence pertinent to each evening s entertainments, derived from all known sources, but...
Theatre in Dublin,1745 1820: A Calendar of Performances is the first comprehensive, daily compendium of more than 18,000 performances that took place ...
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The Pacific
ISBN: 9780415851312 / Angielski / Miękka / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Donald Freeman explores the place of the Pacific Ocean in human history, drawing together the physical, economic, cultural and political history of the Pacific Area, from prehistory through to the present day.
Donald Freeman explores the place of the Pacific Ocean in human history, drawing together the physical, economic, cultural and political history of th...
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Invasion Rabaul: The Epic Story of Lark Force, the Forgotten Garrison, January-July 1942
ISBN: 9780760345917 / Angielski / Miękka / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The riveting first book in Bruce Gamble's critically acclaimed Rabaul trilogy, originally published in hardcover entitled Darkest Hour, which chronicles the longest battle of World War II. January 23, 1942, New Britain. It was 2:30 a.m., the darkest hour of the day and, for the tiny Australian garrison sent to defend this Southwest Pacific island, soon to be the darkest hour of the war. Lark Force, comprising of 1,500 soldiers and six nurses, faced a vastly superior Japanese amphibious unit poised to overrun Rabaul, capital of Australia's mandated territories. Invasion... The riveting first book in Bruce Gamble's critically acclaimed Rabaul trilogy, originally published in hardcover entitled Darkest Hour, w... |
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Health, Medicine, and the Sea: Australian Voyages, C.181560
ISBN: 9781784993610 / Angielski / Miękka / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Health, medicine, and the sea explores how convicts, emigrants and the surgeons responsible for their welfare created medical knowledge at sea in the first half of the nineteenth century. What was it like for Eliza Baldwinson, a young London thief, to experience (and survive) cholera, fever and scurvy as she sailed through strange oceans? Why did Henry Wellings, a young father from North West England, trace his family's voyage - and his son's illness - on a hand-drawn map of the world? What possessed Charles Cameron, an eager naval surgeon, to pillage his ship's gunpowder stores in an attempt...
Health, medicine, and the sea explores how convicts, emigrants and the surgeons responsible for their welfare created medical knowledge at sea in the ...
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The Menehune of Polynesia and Other Mythical Little People of Oceania (Facsimile Reprint)
ISBN: 9781616462147 / Angielski / Miękka / 106 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Anthropologist and folklorist Katharine Luomala's (1907-1992) "The Menehune of Polynesia ..." was published as a bulletin of the Bernice P. Bishop Museum in 1951. This paper examined the stories and myths of little people in Hawaii and other island cultures throughout Oceania. She discusses potential origins for these tales and notes shared characteristics between the folk stories of different people groups. Students of folklore will find much of interest, as will anthropological mystery enthusiasts.
Anthropologist and folklorist Katharine Luomala's (1907-1992) "The Menehune of Polynesia ..." was published as a bulletin of the Bernice P. Bishop Mus...
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85,39 zł |
Local Story: The Massie-Kahahawai Case and the Culture of History
ISBN: 9780824828257 / Angielski / Twarda / 184 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Massie-Kahahawai case of 1931-1932 shook the Territory of Hawai'i to its very core. Thalia Massie, a young Navy wife, alleged that she had been kidnapped and raped by "some Hawaiian boys" in Waikiki. A few days later, five young men stood accused of her rape. Mishandling of evidence and contradictory testimony led to a mistrial, but before a second trial could be convened, one of the accused, Horace Ida, was kidnapped and beaten by a group of Navy men and a second, Joseph Kahahawai, lay dead from a gunshot wound. Thalia's husband, Thomas Massie; her mother, Grace Fortescue; and two... The Massie-Kahahawai case of 1931-1932 shook the Territory of Hawai'i to its very core. Thalia Massie, a young Navy wife, alleged that she had been... |
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Navigating the Spanish Lake: The Pacific in the Iberian World, 1521-1898
ISBN: 9780824838249 / Angielski / Twarda / 200 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Navigating the Spanish Lake examines Spain's long presence in the Pacific Ocean (1521-1898) in the context of its global empire. Building on a growing body of literature on the Atlantic world and indigenous peoples in the Pacific, this pioneering book investigates the historiographical "Spanish Lake" as an artifact that unites the Pacific Rim (the Americas and Asia) and Basin (Oceania) with the Iberian Atlantic. Incorporating an impressive array of unpublished archival materials on Spain's two most important island possessions (Guam and the Philippines) and foreign policy in the South Sea,... Navigating the Spanish Lake examines Spain's long presence in the Pacific Ocean (1521-1898) in the context of its global empire. Building on a grow... |
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Kua'āina Kahiko: Life and Land in Ancient Kahikinui, Maui
ISBN: 9780824839550 / Angielski / Twarda / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In early Hawai'i, kua'aina were the hinterlands inhabited by na kua'aina, or country folk. Often these were dry, less desirable areas where much skill and hard work were required to wrest a living from the lava landscapes. The ancient district of Kahikinui in southeast Maui is such a kua'aina and remains one of the largest tracts of undeveloped land in the islands. Named after Tahiti Nui in the Polynesian homeland, its thousands of pristine acres house a treasure trove of archaeological ruins--witnesses to the generations of Hawaiians who made this land their home before it was abandoned... In early Hawai'i, kua'aina were the hinterlands inhabited by na kua'aina, or country folk. Often these were dry, less desirable areas where much sk... |
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283,26 zł |
Tupaia: The Remarkable Story Of Captain Cook's Polynesian Navigator (Large Print 16pt)
ISBN: 9781459672093 / Angielski / Miękka / 604 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The remarkable story of Tupaia, Captain Cook's Polynesian navigator. Winner of NZ Post 2012 Best General Non - fiction Book Award. Tupaia, lauded by Europeans as 'an extraordinary genius', sailed with Captain Cook from Tahiti, piloted the Endeavour about the South Pacific, and interceded with Maori in NZ. Tupaia, a gifted linguist, a brilliant o...
The remarkable story of Tupaia, Captain Cook's Polynesian navigator. Winner of NZ Post 2012 Best General Non - fiction Book Award. Tupaia, lauded by E...
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269,30 zł |
Major Law and Policy Issues in the South China Sea: European and American Perspectives. Edited by Yann-Huei Song, Keyuan Zou
ISBN: 9781409455943 / Angielski / Twarda / 326 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Major law and policy issues in the South China Sea are discussed mainly from the perspectives of leading American and European scholars in the study of the complex South China Sea disputes. The issues include regional maritime cooperation and regime building, Southeast Asian countries responses to the Chinese assertiveness, China s historic claims, maritime boundary delimitation and excessive maritime claims, military activities and the law of the sea, freedom of navigation and its impact on the problem, the dispute between Vietnam and China, confidence-building measures and U.S.-Taiwan-China...
Major law and policy issues in the South China Sea are discussed mainly from the perspectives of leading American and European scholars in the study o...
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710,82 zł |