New Guinea : crossing boundaries and history /
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...
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Honolulu :
University of Hawai'i Press,
2003.
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Table of Contents:
- Environment and people: 40,000-5,000 B.P.
- Cultural spheres and trade systems: the last 5,000 years
- West New Guinea and the Malay world
- West New Guinea: European trade and settlment, 1520s-1880
- The nineteenth century: trade, settlement, and missionaries
- The nineteenth century: exploration and colonisation
- Interpreting early contact
- Twentieth century: colonialism and independence.