Where the Waves Fall: A New South Sea Islands History from First Settlement
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Where the Waves Fall: A New South Sea Islands History from First Settlement
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Where the Waves Fall: A New South Sea Islands History from First Settlement to Colonial Rule
by K R Howe
Historian’s views of the history of the Pacific Islands have changed considerably in recent years, with the Islanders themselves brought into the centre of the picture and the influence of the European explorers and colonisers interpreted not as they reflected imperial concerns but as they affected the lives of the island’s inhabitants.
Where the Waves Fall makes use of this approach to give a unique account of human settlement and cultural interchange in the Pacific islands. it follows the fortunes of the seafarers who discovered island after island in the world’s largest ocean, traces the development of their civilisations and examines in depth the interaction between them and the new comers – European explores, traders, beachcombers, missionaireies, mechants – who from the 16th century came in an increasing series of waves ‘upon the coral ringed shores of the South Seas’.
Paperback, 1988/91(84), 403pages, very good condition, fading in spine
