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1 online resource (515 p.) |
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Pacific Studies series |
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Pacific studies series.
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| Note |
Description based upon print version of record. |
| Contents |
Cover; Title; Acknowledgments; Contents; Illustrations; Foreword; 1: Tea, Iron and Sandalwood; 2: The Beginnings of the Trade; 3: The Isle of Pines 1841-1843; 4: The Loyalty Islands, New Caledonia and the New Hebrides 1842; 5: The Merchant Venturers 1843-1852; 6: The Job, the Ships and the People of the Trading Voyages; 7: James Paddon; 8: Robert Towns; 9: Trade, the Light and the Flag; 10: Buying Gold 1853-1865; 11: Sandalwood Profits; 12: The Sandalwood Trade in Melanesian Economics; 13: 'A Matter of Policy'; 14: Violence and Fraud on the Melanesian Frontier; 15: Migrant Labour |
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16: Massacres and MotivesConclusion; Appendix 1; Appendix 2; Appendix 3; Abbreviations; References; Bibliography; Index; Copyright |
| Summary |
Few Pacific history books have stood the test of time as well as They Came for Sandalwood, but Dorothy Shineberg's book, first published in 1967, has never been bettered. This fascinating account of the sandalwood trade describes the first regular contact between Europeans and the Melanesians of New Caledonia, the Loyalty Islands, and the New Hebrides (now Vanuatu). Shineberg studied the relationships and rivalries between European traders and European missionaries, between trader and trader, and between tribe and tribe among the indigeno. |
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Sandalwood trade -- New Caledonia -- Loyalty Islands.
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Sandalwood trade -- New Caledonia.
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Sandalwood trade -- Vanuatu.
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HISTORY / Oceania
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Sandalwood trade -- New Caledonia.
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Sandalwood trade -- New Caledonia -- Loyalty Islands.
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Sandalwood trade -- Vanuatu.
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| Genre |
Electronic books.
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Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Freading.
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| Related To |
Print version: Shineberg, Dorothy They Came for Sandalwood : A Study of the Sandalwood Trade in the South-West Pacific 1830?1865 Chicago : University of Queensland Press,c2014 9781921902284 |
| ISBN |
9781921902291 (electronic bk.) |
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1921902299 (electronic bk.) |
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