The people trade : Pacific Island laborers and New Caledonia, 1865-1930

The people trade : Pacific Island laborers and New Caledonia, 1865-1930 /

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The story of the people from the New Hebrides (Vanuatu) and the Solomon Islands who left their homes to work in the French colony of New Caledonia has long remained a missing piece of Pacific Islands history. Now Dorothy Shineberg has brought these laboreres to life by painstakingly assembling fragm...

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Main Author: Shineberg, Dorothy (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Honolulu : Center for Pacific Islands Studies, School of Hawaiian, Asian, and Pacific Studies, University of Hawai'i : University of Hawai'i Press, ©1999.
Series:Pacific islands monograph series ; no. 16.
Subjects:
Indentured servants > Vanuatu > History.
Pacific Islanders > Vanuatu > History.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Cultural Policy.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Popular Culture.
Indentured servants
Pacific Islanders
Arbeiter
Rekrutierung
Soziale Situation
Contractarbeiders.
Main d'œuvre engagée à long terme > Nouvelle-Calédonie > Histoire.
Travail forcé > Nouvelle-Calédonie > Histoire > 19e siècle.
Travail forcé > Nouvelle-Calédonie > Histoire > 20e siècle.
Travail forcé > Vanuatu > Histoire > 20e siècle.
Travail forcé > Vanuatu > Histoire > 19e siècle.
Océaniens > 19e siècle.
Océaniens > 20e siècle.
Geschichte 1865-1930.
Vanuatu
Neukaledonien
Ozeanien
Electronic book.
History
Online Access:Connect to this title online (unlimited users allowed)
Table of Contents:
  • pt. 1. Recruiting for New Caledonia. 1. The Pacific Island Labor Trade and New Caledonia. 2. The Colony Established. 3. Entrepreneurial Recruiting in the 1870s. 4. The Kidnapping Inquiries and the Suspension of the Labor Trade, 1880-1882. 5. Settlers Triumphant: The Labor Trade Revived. 6. The New Century
  • pt. 2. Profile of Recruits. 7. Men and Motives. 8. The Women. 9. The Children
  • pt. 3. At the Workplace. 10. Work in New Caledonia. 11. Living and Working in New Caledonia: By Law or Custom? 12. "Perpetual Theft" 13. Sickness and Death. 14. "Hebrideans" in Colonial Society. 15. Life after Indenture. 16. "Nothing More Convenient."

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