Product Description: Alan and Judy meet as teachers in the Australian Territory of Papua and New Guinea, where they embrace Independence - and each other - before returning to Australia and separating. A generation later their daughter Rebecca joins the campaign for an independent Irian Jaya...read more

Product Description: When it came in September 1975, Papua New Guinea’s independence was marked by both anxiety and elation. In the euphoric aftermath, decolonisation was declared a triumph and immediate events seemed to justify that confidence. By the 1990s, however, events had taken a turn for the worse and there were doubts about the capacity of the State to function...read more

Product Description: Book by Denoon, Donald

'The Cambridge History of the Pacific Islanders makes a landmark contribution to our understanding of this expansive and diverse region. Donald Denoon has assembled an outstanding team of scholars to produce a history that is as lively and provocative asit is rigorous and comprehensive. While it acknowledges the great diversity of Pacific peoples' cultures and experiences, the book looks for common patterns and related themes, presenting them in an insightful and innovative way.'--BOOK JACKET.

Product Description: This book concerns the development of institutional medicine, medical practice and health care during the initial colonisation and later colonial rule of Papua New Guinea. It discusses the relationship between public health and the medical profession and colonial bureaucracy, and also analyses the profession's social and technical ideas which determined the kinds of health policies and programmes attempted...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

This book challenges the conventional view of Japanese society as being monocultural and homogenous. Unique for its historical breadth and interdisciplinary orientation, this study extends from the prehistoric phase to the present. It challenges the notion that Japan's monoculture is being challenged only because of internationalism, arguing that cultural diversity has always existed in Japan. It is a provocative discussion of identity politics around the question of "Japaneseness". The paperback edition has a new epilogue. (view table of contents)

This book provides an arresting interpretation of the history of Australia, New Zealand and the Pacific from the earliest settlements to the present. Usually viewed in isolation, these societies are covered here in a single account, in which the authors show how the peoples of the region constructed their own identities and influenced those of their neighbours. By broadening the focus to the regional level, this volume develops analyses - of economic, social and political history - which transcend national boundaries. The result is a compelling work which both describes the aspirations of European settlers and reveals how the dispossessed and marginalized indigenous peoples negotiated their own lives as best they could. The authors demonstrate that these stories are not separate but rather strands of a single history. (view table of contents)

Product Description: The creation of the giant Panguna copper mine in Bougainville shadowed the birth of an independent Papa New Guinea. Panguna needed land on a grand scale, and when villagers refused to sell, the government expropriated their land. This works covers the conflicts that beset the Panguna project...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This book is a comparative study of settler societies in Argentina, Chile, Uruguay, South Africa, Australia, and New Zealand. It describes the economic, social, and political changes which occurred during the nineteenth century.