A Great Collection of Hard to Find Histories
4 stars
I could've saved myself so much time hunting down the few English-language academic volumes on Pacific Island history by picking up this book. It not only covers many regional histories in its different chapters written by academics, but also includes excellent reference sections for further reading. So many chapters deserve a call out: colonial Samoa (Holger Droessler), citrus schemes and land use in the Cook Islands (Hannah Cutting-Jones), expropriation of Ainu Mosir (Katsuya Hirano), the Tuamotu Archipelago (William Cavert), Kona Coffee (Edward Dallam Melillo), shifting nomenclatures and spatial reconfiguration in Hawaii Kai (N. Ha'alilio Solomon), and nuclear testing in the Pacific (Frank Zelko). Highly recommend the whole book
I could've saved myself so much time hunting down the few English-language academic volumes on Pacific Island history by picking up this book. It not only covers many regional histories in its different chapters written by academics, but also includes excellent reference sections for further reading. So many chapters deserve a call out: colonial Samoa (Holger Droessler), citrus schemes and land use in the Cook Islands (Hannah Cutting-Jones), expropriation of Ainu Mosir (Katsuya Hirano), the Tuamotu Archipelago (William Cavert), Kona Coffee (Edward Dallam Melillo), shifting nomenclatures and spatial reconfiguration in Hawaii Kai (N. Ha'alilio Solomon), and nuclear testing in the Pacific (Frank Zelko). Highly recommend the whole book