Culture contact in the Pacific :  essays on contact, encounter, and response / 
edited by Max Quanchi and Ron Adams ; contributors, Ron Adams [and others]. 
 - Cambridge ;  New York :  Cambridge University Press,  1993. 
 - xiv, 186 pages :  illustrations ;  25 cm 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references and index. 
<br/><br/> Pre-European Pacific Society: --  The origins of pacific peoples --  Pre-European societies in the Pacific Islands --  European 'discovery' of the Pacific: --  European discovery or multiple discoveries --  Being discovered: perceptions and control of strangers --  Islanders and Europeans in the Nineteenth Century: --  Trade interaction --  Religious interaction --  Labour recruiting and indenture --  Response and change in polynesian societies --  From Colonialism to Independence: --  Patterns of colonial rule --  The path to independence --  Non-colonial influences and issues --  The Changing Image of the Pacific: --  The changing image of the Pacific.  Part I.  1.  2.  Part II.  3.  4.  Part III.  5.  6.  7.  8.  Part IV.  9.  10.  11.  Part V.  12. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>0521422841 9780521422840 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>92017851  
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Pacific Islanders--Cultural assimilation.<br/>Pacific Islanders--History.<br/>Acculturation--History.--Oceania
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Geographic Terms: </label><br/>Oceania--Discovery and exploration.<br/>Europe--Colonies--Oceania.
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>303.48/295