New Guinea: Crossing Boundaries and HistoryUniversity of Hawaii Press, 31 lug 2003 - 288 pagine New Guinea, the world's largest tropical island, is a land of great contrasts, ranging from small glaciers on its highest peaks to broad mangrove swamps in its lowlands and hundreds of smaller islands and coral atolls along its coasts. Divided between two nations, the island and its neighboring archipelagos form Indonesia’s Papua Province (or Irian Jaya) and the independent nation of Papua New Guinea, both former European colonies. Most books on New Guinea have been guided by these and other divisions, separating east from west, prehistoric from historic, precontact from postcontact, colonial from postcolonial. |
Sommario
Environment and People 400005000 BP | 11 |
Cultural Spheres and Trade Systems The Last 5000 Years | 30 |
West New Guinea and the Malay World | 53 |
West New Guinea European Trade and Settlement 15201880 | 70 |
The Nineteenth Century Trade Settlement and Missionaries | 99 |
The Nineteenth Century Exploration and Colonization | 130 |
Interpreting Early Contact | 150 |
The Twentieth Century Colonialism and Independence | 175 |
Notes | 201 |
Bibliography | 223 |
Index | 259 |