New Guinea : crossing boundaries and history / Clive Moore.
New Guinea : crossing boundaries and history / Clive Moore.
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Honolulu : University of Hawai'i Press, c2003.
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N995/33
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English
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xiv, 274 p. [16] p. of plates : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
Contents
Introduction: Interpreting Melanesia -- 1. Environment and People: 40,000 - 5,000 B.P. -- 2. Cultural Spheres and Trade Systems: The Last 5,000 Years -- 3. West New Guinea and the Malay World -- 4. West New Guinea: European Trade and Settlement, 1520-1880 -- 5. The Nineteenth Century: Trade, Settlem...
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Honolulu : University of Hawai'i Press, c2003.
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Hawaii
Date Published
c2003.
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"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 archipelago form Indonesia's Papua Province (or Irian...
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New Guinea : crossing boundaries and history / Clive Moore.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 227-261) and index.
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c2003.
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N995/33
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74VveNVO00Wd
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0824824857 (hardcover : alk. paper)
9780824824853 (hardcover : alk. paper)
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995
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991017135949702626
