TY - BOOK AU - Rutherford,Noel TI - Friendly Islands: a history of Tonga SN - 0195505190 : PY - 1977/// CY - Melbourne, New York PB - Oxford University Press KW - Tonga KW - History N1 - Includes bibliographic references (pages 277-285) and index; The creation myth --; Archaeology and prehistory; Jens Poulsen --; Oral tradition and prehistory; as told to Noel Rutherford by Ve'ehala and Tupou Posesi Fanua --; The maritime explorers; Robert Langdon --; Tongan society at the time of European contact; H. G. Cummins --; The coming of foreigners; Niel Gunson --; The Wesleyan mission; Sione Latukefu --; The Catholic mission; Hugh Laracy --; George Tupou I and Shirley Baker; Noel Rutherford --; George Tupou II and the British protectorate; 'Eseta Fusitu'a and Noel Rutherford --; Queen Salote Tupou III; A. H. Wood and Elizabeth Wood Ellem --; Contemporary Tonga: the background of social and cultural change; George E. Marcus --; Contemporary Tonga: an economic survey; John R. Baker ER -