Culture Contact in the Pacific

Culture Contact in the Pacific

Editorial Reviews
Book Description
The authors have brought together a collection of works from specialists in Pacific History from across Australia and throughout the Pacific. The individual contributions were specifically written to meet the needs of senior history courses in Australia. Max Quanchi and Ron Adams are well-known educationists who have specialised in the pacific. They have extensively travelled and studied in the Pacific and have spent many years teaching history to secondary and fertiary students. The result is an authoritative text for all senior History and Australian Studies students who need to understand the Pacific region.

Culture Contact in the Pacific: Essays on Contact, Encounter and Response,Max Quanchi,Ron Adams,Cambridge University Press,0521422841,Acculturation,Cultural And Social Anthropology,Cultural assimilation,Discovery and exploration,Education,General,History,Intercultural Communication,Oceania,Pacific Islanders,Sociology,Teaching Methods & Materials - Social Science,Australian & Pacific history,History / World,History of other lands,Pacific Ocean

Books Report:

1. Dead Countries of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries
2. Dead Reckoning: Tales of the Great Explorers 1800-1900
3. Deciphering Global Epidemics : Analytical Approaches to the Disease Records of World Cities, 1888-1912 (Cambridge Studies in Historical Geography)
4. Dictators in the Mirror of Medicine: Napoleon, Hitler, Stalin
5. Earliest English Kings
6. Economic Voting (Routledge/ECPR Studies in European Political Science)
7. Economy and Nature in the Fourteenth Century : Money, Market Exchange, and the Emergence of Scientific Thought (Cambridge Studies in Medieval Life and Thought)
8. Eighteenth-Century Criminal Transportation
9. Embracing History's Lessons: What Every College Graduate Should Know
10. Empire and Culture : The French Experience, 1830-1940

Books Report

Recommended Books

1. China's Splendors
2. The Beginner's Guide Pastels: A Complete Step-By-Step Guide to Techniques and Materials
3. The Pig Poets: An Anthology of Porcine Poesy
4. Consumer Economics : Issues and Behaviors
5. Lending and Borrowing in Ancient Athens
6. Tillage for Sustainable Cropping
7. The Reception of Darwinism in the Iberian World : Spain, Spanish America and Brazil
8. Tight and Taut Submanifolds
9. Top Shelf Asks the Big Questions
10. Ties of Power
11. Vizslas
12. The Sweet Life: Reflections on Home and Garden
13. War As I Knew It
14. Virtual Politics : Faking Democracy in the Post-Soviet World
15. The Zoological Exploration of Southern Africa 1650-1790