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Table of contents
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- The Text in Its Context: An Introduction
- Part I. General Regional
- 1. Fatal Choices? Morrell’s and Scarr’s Imperial Histories
- 2. On Douglas Oliver’s The Pacific Islands
- 3. Oskar Spate’s Trilogy
- 4. Where theWaves Fall—or, Playing the Generalist Game
- Part II. Methodologies
- 5. Voyagers and Navigators: The Sharp-Lewis Debate
- 6. The Evolution of Marshall Sahlins
- 7. Revisioning the Pacific: Bernard Smith in the South Seas
- 8. More Celebrated than Read: TheWork of Norma McArthur
- 9. Two Pacific Biographies: Hubert Murray and Father Damien
- Part III. Activities
- 10. The Missionary Position: Messengers of Grace and TheWorks of Ta’unga
- 11. Of Islands and Sandalwood: Shineberg, Maude, and the Hidden History of Trade
- 12. Unsettling New Zealand History: The Revisionism of Sinclair and Ward
- 13. Passage across the Sea: Indentured Labor to Fiji and from the Solomons
- 14. Trumpet and Road: Two Classic Cargo Texts
- Part IV. Island Groups
- 15. Living in Archives and Dreams: The Histories of Kuykendall and Daws
- 16. On Hezel’s The First Taint of Civilization
- 17. On Greg Dening’s Islands and Beaches
- 18. Disentangling Samoan History: The Contributions of Gilson and Davidson
- 19. The Last Unknown: Gavin Souter and the Historiography of New Guinea
- Contributors
- Index