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Day of Two Suns: U.S. Nuclear Testing and the Pacific Islanders
ISBN: 9780941533836 / Angielski / Miękka / 318 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Between 1946 and 1958, the U.S. conducted some 66 nuclear bomb tests in the Marshall Islands. In 1959, this scattering of coral atolls was again chosen as the testing site for a new generation of weapons long-range missiles fired in the U.S. Then in 1984 a missile fired from California was intercepted by one from Kwajalein atoll: SDI, or Star Wars, was declared a realizable dream. As military researcher Owen Wilkes has noted: "If we could shut down the Pacific Missile Range, we could cut off half the momentum of the nuclear race." This is the story of the preparations for war which every day...
Between 1946 and 1958, the U.S. conducted some 66 nuclear bomb tests in the Marshall Islands. In 1959, this scattering of coral atolls was again chose...
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65,30 zł |
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Rationales of Ownership: Transactions and Claims to Ownership in Contemporary Papua New Guinea
ISBN: 9780954557201 / Angielski / Twarda / 156 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. What constitutes a resource, and how do people make claims on them? Contributions from social anthropology and law in this major research project offer conceptual clarification in the context of material, intellectual, and cultural resources in Papua, New Guinea. (Anthropology)
What constitutes a resource, and how do people make claims on them? Contributions from social anthropology and law in this major research project offe...
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366,91 zł |
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Rationales of Ownership: Transactions and Claims to Ownership in Contemporary Papua New Guinea
ISBN: 9780954557218 / Angielski / Miękka / 156 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. What constitutes a resource, and how do people make claims on them? In a burgeoning discourse of property, the authors offer conceptual clarification in the context of material, intellectual and cultural resources in Papua New Guinea.
What constitutes a resource, and how do people make claims on them? In a burgeoning discourse of property, the authors offer conceptual clarification ...
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146,77 zł |
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Mutiny of the Bounty and Story of Pitcairn Island 1790 - 1894
ISBN: 9781410208460 / Angielski / Miękka / 276 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. History of the true mutiny of the HMS Bounty in 1789, the settlement at Pitcairn Island and the lives of various settlers. Includes the wreck of the Cornwallis. the wreck of the Oregon and the visit of the missionary ship Pitcairn with photos and accounts of residents, island industries, etc.The author's father was the second oldest man of the community at the time of his death, in September 1893, and was a grandson of John Adams, one of the mutineers of the Bounty, whose death took place in 1829. She has thus had the best of advantages for obtaining a correct knowledge of the island history....
History of the true mutiny of the HMS Bounty in 1789, the settlement at Pitcairn Island and the lives of various settlers. Includes the wreck of the C...
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122,06 zł |
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Polynesian Interconnections: Samoa to Tahiti to Hawaii
ISBN: 9781411602274 / Angielski / Miękka / 128 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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98,50 zł |
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Polynesian Interconnections: Dwayne Johnson as King Kamehameha. 2nd Edition
ISBN: 9781411602731 / Angielski / Miękka / 147 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. POLYNESIAN INTERCONNECTIONS celebrate the unity of one Polynesian family related to Europeans, Asians and Aborigines Africans through their ancient heritage and genetics. The term Polynesian means many islands or many races. The Polynesians came from an ancient family of intermixed races and today we share our ohana with all peoples of the world. We are one family, the human family, the Polynesian family. To the world we say ALOHA and may the love and spirit of family bring happiness and prosperity into our lives.
POLYNESIAN INTERCONNECTIONS celebrate the unity of one Polynesian family related to Europeans, Asians and Aborigines Africans through their ancient he...
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102,97 zł |
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Tahiti: Polynesian Peasants and Proletarians
ISBN: 9781412806404 / Angielski / Miękka / 158 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Polynesian island of Tahiti is in the imagination an island paradise, an idyllic world inhabited by noble savages, carefree and uncomplicated. Tahiti separates myth from reality. Finney describes and analyzes the forces of change that have confronted Tahiti and its inhabitants in the modern world. As the author notes in the introduction, "Neither isolation in the South Pacific, nor the romantic aura invested in them by philosophers and escapists of the West, has saved Tahitians from intense involvement in the twin processes of industrialization and urbanization."
The Polynesian island of Tahiti is in the imagination an island paradise, an idyllic world inhabited by noble savages, carefree and uncomplicated. Tah...
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230,81 zł |
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Island at the End of the World: The Turbulent History of Easter Island
ISBN: 9781861892829 / Angielski / Miękka / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. On a long stretch of green coast in the South Pacific, hundreds of enormous, impassive stone heads stand guard against the ravages of time, war, and disease that have attempted over the centuries to conquer Easter Island. Steven Roger Fischer offers the first English-language history of Easter Island in Island at the End of the World, a fascinating chronicle of adversity, triumph, and the enduring monumentality of the island's stone guards. A small canoe with Polynesians brought the first humans to Easter Island in 700 CE, and when boat travel in the South Pacific drastically...
On a long stretch of green coast in the South Pacific, hundreds of enormous, impassive stone heads stand guard against the ravages of time, war, and d...
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110,19 zł |
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Fiji and the Franchise: A History of Political Representation, 1900-1937
ISBN: 9780595450213 / Angielski / Miękka / 360 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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104,61 zł |
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Fiji and the Franchise: A History of Political Representation, 1900-1937
ISBN: 9780595692217 / Angielski / Twarda / 360 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Fiji by the year 1900 after a generation as a British Crown Colony was a multi-racial nation with a combined indentured and free Indian component, which was about to expand on a large scale, and contest political predominance with indigenous Fijians and a small but dominant European minority among other ethnic groups.Drawn from primary sources, and packed with original quotations and statistics, "Fiji and the Franchise" illuminates the history of the struggle that followed. This book introduces modern readers to life in the Fiji islands from 1900 to 1937, when the ultimate question for its...
Fiji by the year 1900 after a generation as a British Crown Colony was a multi-racial nation with a combined indentured and free Indian component, whi...
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148,29 zł |
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Consequential Damages of Nuclear War: The Rongelap Report
ISBN: 9781598743456 / Angielski / Twarda / 312 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The hydrogen test-bomb Bravo, dropped on the Marshall Islands in 1954, had enormous consequences for the Rongelap people. Anthropologists Barbara Rose Johnston and Holly Barker provide incontrovertible evidence of physical and financial damages to individuals and cultural and psycho-social damages to the community through use of declassified government documents, oral histories and ethnographic research, conducted with the Marshallese community within a unique collaborative framework. Their work helped produce a $1 billion award by the Nuclear Claims Tribunal and raises issues of bioethics,...
The hydrogen test-bomb Bravo, dropped on the Marshall Islands in 1954, had enormous consequences for the Rongelap people. Anthropologists Barbara Rose...
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813,27 zł |
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Consequential Damages of Nuclear War: The Rongelap Report
ISBN: 9781598743463 / Angielski / Miękka / 312 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The hydrogen test-bomb Bravo, dropped on the Marshall Islands in 1954, had enormous consequences for the Rongelap people. Anthropologists Barbara Rose Johnston and Holly Barker provide incontrovertible evidence of physical and financial damages to individuals and cultural and psycho-social damages to the community through use of declassified government documents, oral histories and ethnographic research, conducted with the Marshallese community within a unique collaborative framework. Their work helped produce a $1 billion award by the Nuclear Claims Tribunal and raises issues of bioethics,...
The hydrogen test-bomb Bravo, dropped on the Marshall Islands in 1954, had enormous consequences for the Rongelap people. Anthropologists Barbara Rose...
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230,81 zł |
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Stealing People's Names
ISBN: 9780521385046 / Angielski / Twarda / 238 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Among the people of Avatip, a community in the Sepik region of Papua New Guinea, the most prestigious and valued forms of wealth are personal names. In this intriguing study, Simon Harrison analyzes the significance of names in the context of Avatip ritual, cosmology, and concepts of the person, and shows how the Avatip system of names parallels the gift-exchange systems of many other Melanesian societies. In ritualized debates, which form the arena of Avatip political life, rival leaders and the groups they represent struggle in oratorical contests for the possession of strategic names, and...
Among the people of Avatip, a community in the Sepik region of Papua New Guinea, the most prestigious and valued forms of wealth are personal names. I...
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483,44 zł |
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Sir Edward Seaward's Narrative Of His Shipwreck And Discovery Of Certain Islands In The Caribbean Sea (1878)
ISBN: 9780548703243 / Angielski / Miękka / 640 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. With A Detail Of Many Extraordinary And Highly Interesting Events In His Life, From The Year 1733 To 1749.
With A Detail Of Many Extraordinary And Highly Interesting Events In His Life, From The Year 1733 To 1749.
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224,79 zł |
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Narratives of Nation in the South Pacific
ISBN: 9789057020858 / Angielski / Twarda / 245 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. It is striking that in many Pacific nations, 'national' narratives are subordinate to other fundamental historical imaginings, such as those concerning local political dynasties and conversion to Christianity. While leaders in Pacific states have frequently sought to legitimate new nations through local 'tradition' and 'custom', these constructions of identity frequently mask divisions arising from gender, hierarchy, and other social relationships. These studies from Papua New Guinea, Vanuatu, Samoa and the Cook Islands add much to our knowledge of historical imaginings and contemporary...
It is striking that in many Pacific nations, 'national' narratives are subordinate to other fundamental historical imaginings, such as those concernin...
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682,09 zł |
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Politics and State-Building in Solomon Islands
ISBN: 9780731538188 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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135,07 zł |
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Hawaii Remembered: Postcards from Paradise
ISBN: 9780764322198 / Angielski / Postcard book or pack / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Experience the beautiful colors and exotic flavors that help define Hawaii as paradise. Luscious postcards from the early 20th century draw readers through alluring days of Hawaiis history as a booming tourist, agricultural, and, most importantly, Polynesian cultural center. General history and more than 350 actual hand-tinted photos capture the allure of native villages, early city life, the first resort hotels, and natural wonders including volcanoes, waterfalls, and amazing flora and palm-studded vistas. The images portray the unique cast-net fishing aquaculture of Hawaii, their outrigger...
Experience the beautiful colors and exotic flavors that help define Hawaii as paradise. Luscious postcards from the early 20th century draw readers th...
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120,62 zł |
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Exploring the Explorers: Spaniards in Oceania, 1519-1794
ISBN: 9780719077791 / Angielski / Twarda / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Exploring the Explorers: Spaniards in Oceania 1519-1794' is the first study of cross-cultural engagements between the indigenous peoples of the Pacific and Spanish explorers during the early modern period. Bridging disciplines, the book sets out to analyse in detail eight main voyages and their aims and outcomes, looking at the different patterns of contact and the use of gift-giving and bartering as social cement.
This fascinating and original study will broaden the investigation of world exploration and Pacific ethnography, as many of the sources from these voyages are scarcely known... Exploring the Explorers: Spaniards in Oceania 1519-1794' is the first study of cross-cultural engagements between the indigenous peoples of the Pacifi...
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469,46 zł |
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Island World: A History of Hawai'i and the United Statesvolume 8
ISBN: 9780520261679 / Angielski / Miękka / 328 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Brilliantly mixing geology, folklore, music, cultural commentary, and history, Gary Y. Okihiro overturns the customary narrative in which the United States acts upon and dominates Hawai'i. Instead, Island World depicts the islands' press against the continent, endowing America's story with fresh meaning. Okihiro's reconsidered history reveals Hawaiians fighting in the Civil War, sailing on nineteenth-century New England ships, and living in pre-gold rush California. He points to Hawai'i's lingering effect on twentieth-century American culture--from surfboards, hula, sports, and films,...
Brilliantly mixing geology, folklore, music, cultural commentary, and history, Gary Y. Okihiro overturns the customary narrative in which the United S...
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138,08 zł |
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Arguing Over the American Lake
ISBN: 9781603441254 / Angielski / Twarda / 354 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Hal M. Friedman analyzes the major issues concerning the Pacific Basin that confronted the executive branch departments between 1945 and 1947.
Hal M. Friedman analyzes the major issues concerning the Pacific Basin that confronted the executive branch departments between 1945 and 1947.
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350,86 zł |
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