Pacific Nations and Territories

Pacific Nations and Territories
Author: Reilly Ridgell
Publisher: Bess Press
Total Pages: 192
Release: 1995
Genre: History
ISBN: 9781573060011

Provides a background in Pacific geography, culture, and history, plus an overview of the different Pacific island groups.

Schooling in the Pacific Islands

Schooling in the Pacific Islands
Author: R. Murray Thomas
Publisher: Elsevier
Total Pages: 353
Release: 2016-01-26
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1483148556

Schooling in the Pacific Islands: Colonies in Transition is the third book in a three-volume series describing education in selected countries of Oceania and the Asian regions bordering the Pacific. Organized into 10 chapters, this book begins with a general outlook on the colonization and schooling in Oceania. Subsequent chapters detail Oceania schools' social and historical backgrounds, the goals of education, the structure and size of the schooling enterprise, administration and finance, curriculum development, the supply of educational personnel, and problems and prospects for the future. Individual island countries covered include Papua New Guinea, Micronesia, New Caledonia and the Society Islands, Vanuatu, Fiji, American Samoa and Western Samoa, Tonga, and The Cook Islands.

International Status in the Shadow of Empire

International Status in the Shadow of Empire
Author: Cait Storr
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 321
Release: 2020-09-17
Genre: Law
ISBN: 1108498507

This book offers a new account of Nauru's imperial history and examines its significance in the history of international law.

Leadership in the Pacific Islands

Leadership in the Pacific Islands
Author: Donald R. Shuster
Publisher: National Centre for Development Studies Research S Acific St
Total Pages: 176
Release: 1998
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN:

Remaking Micronesia

Remaking Micronesia
Author: David L. Hanlon
Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
Total Pages: 332
Release: 1998-03-01
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780824820114

America's efforts at economic development in the Caroline, Mariana, and Marshall Islands proved to be about transforming in dramatic fashion people who occupied real estate deemed vital to American strategic concerns. Called "Micronesians," these island people were regarded as other, and their otherness came to be seen as incompatible with American interests. And so, underneath the liberal rhetoric that surrounded arguments, proposals, and programs for economic development was a deeper purpose. America's domination would be sustained by the remaking of these islands into places that had the look, feel, sound, speed, smell, and taste of America - had the many and varied plans actually succeeded. However, the gap between intent and effect holds a rich and deeply entangled history. Remaking Micronesia stands as an important, imaginative, much needed contribution to the study of Micronesia, American policy in the Pacific, and the larger debate about development. It will be an important source of insight and critique for scholars and students working at the intersection of history, culture, and power in the Pacific.