Grass huts and warehouses

From the examination of the political, economic and social developments of five small port towns - Honolulu, Papeete, Kororareka, Levuka and Apia - the picture that emerges falls short of paradise. jealousies, petty quarrels, political manoeuverings, followed the early settlers to their island havens. This book exmines the shifts in community power, the development of trade and commerce, race relations and daily life in the five towns before formal Western control was imposed.

שנה

2014

שפה

English

הוצאה

University of Queensland Press

מהדורות

1

ISBN

9781921902321

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