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History of Micronesia a Collection of Source Documents: Volume 5--Focus on the Mariana Mission, 1670-1673
ISBN: 9780920201053 / Angielski / Twarda / 704 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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402,37 |
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History of Micronesia a Collection of Source Documents: Volume 10--Exploration of the Carolines, 1696-1709
ISBN: 9780920201107 / Angielski / Twarda / 20 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This volume is part of a series on the history of the North Pacific. It contains primary source material (official reports, private letters) and extracts from rare books, translated from various languages.
This volume is part of a series on the history of the North Pacific. It contains primary source material (official reports, private letters) and extra...
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402,37 |
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Carolinians Drift to Guam: 1715-1728
ISBN: 9780920201121 / Angielski / Twarda / 704 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. These volumes are a continuation of a series on the history of the North Pacific. Each contains primary source material (official reports, private letters) and extracts from rare books, translated from various languages.
These volumes are a continuation of a series on the history of the North Pacific. Each contains primary source material (official reports, private let...
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402,37 |
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Mostly Palau, 1783-1793
ISBN: 9780920201152 / Angielski / Twarda / 700 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Volume 15 contains nine parts, including reprints of three rare books: Account of the Pelew Islands, edited by Keate; Supplement to Said Account, by the Reverend Hockin; and Narrative of Amasa Delano. The logbook and narrative of Captain McCluer, who visited Palau in 1791 and stayed for fifteen months in 1793-1794, is published here for the first time.
Volume 15 contains nine parts, including reprints of three rare books: Account of the Pelew Islands, edited by Keate; Supplement to Said Account, by t...
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402,37 |
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The Malaspina Expedition, 1793-1795
ISBN: 9780920201169 / Angielski / Twarda / 703 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Volume 16 contains all known documents about the first scientific expedition to the Pacific. The Malaspina Expedition visited Guam in 1792 and was led by Commander Alexandro Malaspina. His work and that of his twelve officers appear in this volume. Administrative records are also included. Notable among these are documents concerning a visit to Guam by Carolinian canoes from Lamotrek and a vocabulary of the Carolinian language.
Volume 16 contains all known documents about the first scientific expedition to the Pacific. The Malaspina Expedition visited Guam in 1792 and was led...
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402,37 |
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Last Discoveries: 10 Islands, 1795-1807: A Collection of Source Documents
ISBN: 9780920201176 / Angielski / Twarda / 704 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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402,37 |
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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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58,13 |
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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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320,17 |
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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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128,07 |
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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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106,51 |
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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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89,85 |
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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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227,80 |
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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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101,81 |
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Mindanao. Su Historia Y Geografía
ISBN: 9788498167115 / Hiszpański / Miękka / 144 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Crnica sobre la segunda isla ms grande de Filipinas.
Crnica sobre la segunda isla ms grande de Filipinas.
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69,58 |
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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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91,29 |
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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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129,40 |
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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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799,90 |
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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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227,80 |
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The Mariana Islands: 1884-1887 Random Notes
ISBN: 9781878453884 / Angielski / Twarda / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. At various times during the nineteenth century, administrators, missionaries, and government officials had stressed the poor economic conditions of the Marina Islands, pleading for the implementation of administrative and economic reforms. But the cost that reforms for those remote colonies represented to an impoverished government, coupled with the immediacy of domestic and foreign problems, impeded their implementation or reduced them to a minimum.
At various times during the nineteenth century, administrators, missionaries, and government officials had stressed the poor economic conditions of th...
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140,54 |
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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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447,15 |
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