Oceania
Author | : Douglas L. Oliver |
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Release | : 1989 |
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Author | : Douglas L. Oliver |
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Release | : 1989 |
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Author | : William S. Livingston |
Publisher | : University of Texas Press |
Total Pages | : 262 |
Release | : 2014-08-04 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1477301240 |
Three forces—dwindling British power, rising American influence, and nationalism in a variety of forms—have transformed Australia, New Zealand, and the adjacent islands since 1919. In this volume, some of the most distinguished scholars of the Pacific region assess these significant historical changes. These essays deal with international relations, politics, changing social structures, and literature since World War I. The themes of the volume as a whole are social and humanistic; they concern the evolution of both a regional identity and separate national identities in the Southwest Pacific. The unique areal and thematic concentration of this book makes it essential reading for all those interested in the history, politics, and culture of the Pacific.
Author | : Roger C. Thompson |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 304 |
Release | : 1998 |
Genre | : Australia |
ISBN | : 9781875606542 |
Author | : Joanne Wallis |
Publisher | : Melbourne Univ. Publishing |
Total Pages | : 237 |
Release | : 2017-07-17 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 0522868231 |
Australia is much larger and has significantly more military and economic power than its Pacific Island neighbours. As a result, it is frequently described as having a natural right to lead in the region. Yet, Australia has found it difficult to effectively influence Pacific Island states in pursuit of its strategic interests. It provides the definitive account of how, and how effectively, Australia has sought to influence Pacific Island states in pursuit of its strategic interests since 1975, the year that Papua New Guinea, Australia’s former colonial territory, gained independence. Informed by interviews with key decision makers, Pacific Power? analyses why Australia has had difficulty exercising influence in the Pacific Islands and identifies how Australia can more effectively influence Pacific Island states in pursuit of its strategic interests, and how Australia can present itself more as a Pacific partner than power.
Author | : Shannon H. Harts |
Publisher | : 'The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc' |
Total Pages | : 34 |
Release | : 2020-12-15 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 1725322234 |
Australia and the Pacific Realm is a region unlike any other in the world. Made up of thousands of islands, from tiny atolls to the continent of Australia, this region is defined by the mighty ocean flowing between neighboring islands and countries. How did people come to inhabit the islands of this region? How do the islands differ from one another? Readers will have the full Oceania tour with this exciting book, which uses photographs, maps, and fact-filled text to paint an inspiring picture of Australia and the Pacific Realm.
Author | : Jane Hinchey |
Publisher | : Redback Publishing |
Total Pages | : 32 |
Release | : 2017-06-01 |
Genre | : Fiji |
ISBN | : 192563003X |
The Pacific Islands are thousands of islands, and represent numerous diverse cultures and languages. Find out what life is like in various Pacific Island nations. Discover the ethnic diversity, and how people live, work and play. What is the difference between Melanesia, Micronesia and Polynesia? Learn about the governments, history, culture and landscapes of countries like: - Fiji - Vanuatu - Nauru - Tonga - New Caledonia And find out more about Australias relationship with its Pacific Island neighbours. ABOUT THE AUSTRALIAN NEIGHBOURS SERIES This exciting series explores the landscapes, culture and people of Australias closest neighbours. Inside each book youll find current information, maps, statistics, fun facts, timelines and photographs. Every book is a valuable resource designed to support Australian students and teachers, and meet Australian National Curriculum requirements.
Author | : Greg Fry |
Publisher | : ANU Press |
Total Pages | : 419 |
Release | : 2019-10-25 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 1760463159 |
Since its origins in late eighteenth-century European thought, the idea of placing a regional frame around the Pacific islands has never been just an exercise in geographical mapping. This framing has always been a political exercise. Contending regional projects and visions have been part of a political struggle concerning how Pacific islanders should live their lives. Framing the Islands tells the story of this political struggle and its impact on the regional governance of key issues for the Pacific such as regional development, resource management, security, cultural identity, political agency, climate change and nuclear involvement. It tells this story in the context of a changing world order since the colonial period and of changing politics within the post-colonial states of the Pacific. Framing the Islands argues that Pacific regionalism has been politically significant for Pacific island states and societies. It demonstrates the power associated with the regional arena as a valued site for the negotiation of global ideas and processes around development, security and climate change. It also demonstrates the political significance associated with the role of Pacific regionalism as a diplomatic bloc in global affairs, and as a producer of powerful policy norms attached to funded programs. This study also challenges the expectation that Pacific regionalism largely serves hegemonic powers and that small islands states have little diplomatic agency in these contests. Pacific islanders have successfully promoted their own powerful normative framings of Oceania in the face of the attempted hegemonic impositions from outside the region; seen, for example, in the strong commitment to the ‘Blue Pacific continent’ framing as a guiding ideology for the policy work of the Pacific Islands Forum in the face of pressures to become part of Washington’s Indo-Pacific strategy.
Author | : Farida Fozdar |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 351 |
Release | : 2016-12-08 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 131719506X |
This volume offers a "southern," Pacific Ocean perspective on the topic of racial hybridity, exploring it through a series of case studies from around the Australo-Pacific region, a region unique as a result of its very particular colonial histories. Focusing on the interaction between "race" and culture, especially in terms of visibility and self-defined identity; and the particular characteristics of political, cultural and social formations in the countries of this region, the book explores the complexity of the lived mixed race experience, the structural forces of particular colonial and post-colonial environments and political regimes, and historical influences on contemporary identities and cultural expressions of mixed-ness.
Author | : Stephen Currie |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : Australia |
ISBN | : 9781590184967 |
The exploration of Australia and the islands of the Pacific Ocean, from the migrations of the Polynesian and native Australian peoples to the first successful crossing of the Australian interior in the 1860s.
Author | : Douglas L. Oliver |
Publisher | : University of Hawaii Press |
Total Pages | : 846 |
Release | : 1989-02-01 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9780824810191 |
"Part 1 of the book...deals with the geography of the region and with the biological, linguistic, and archaeological evidence concerning the origins of the Oceanians and their movements into and within the region. Part 2 describes the tools and techniques by which the recent (but not yet markedly Westernized) Oceanians satisfied their basic, pan-human needs, as qualified by their many different, culturally defined, perceptions of those needs...Finally, Part 3 focuses on the varieties of social structures within which those 'technical' activities took place." -from the Prologue