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Record Nr.

UNINA9910324956203321

Autore

Newbury C. W (Colin Walter), <1929->

Titolo

Tahiti Nui : Change and Survival in French Polynesia, 1767–1945 / / Colin Newbury

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Honolulu : , : University Press of Hawaii, , 1980

©1980

ISBN

0-8248-8032-3

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xvi, 380 p.) : : ill. ;

Disciplina

996/.211

Soggetti

Electronic books.

Tahiti (French Polynesia : Island) Colonization

Tahiti (French Polynesia : Island) History

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di bibliografia

Bibliography: p. [349]-368.

Sommario/riassunto

Tahiti Nui is an account of the survival of a Polynesian society in the face of successive settlements of missionaries, traders, and administrators.Beginning with the first explorers and Captain Cook's scientific observations at Point Venus, Dr.