HISTORY 104: Pacific History: An Introduction

Library Resources - Semester 1, 2012

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Books in the Short Loan Collection and electronic readings for this course are available by searching Readings & Exams.

Recommended Introductory Texts:

• Campbell, Ian C., Worlds Apart: A History of the Pacific Islands, Christchurch, 2003. Library copies
• Fischer, Stephen, A History of the Pacific Islands, London, 2002. Library copies

Recommended General Reference Works:

• Craig, Robert D. and Frank P. King, Historical Dictionary of Oceania, Westport, Conn., 1981. Library copies
• Crocombe, Ron, Pacific Neighbours: New Zealand's Relations with Other Pacific Islands, Christchurch, 1992. Library copies
• Crocombe, Ron, The South Pacific, Suva, 2008. Library copies
• Denoon, Donald and Philippa Mein-Smith, with Marivic Wyndham, eds, A History of Australia, New Zealand and the Pacific, Oxford, 2002. Library copies
• Hoadley, Steve, The South Pacific Foreign Affairs Handbook, Sydney, 1992. Library copies
• Lal, Brij and Kate Fortune, eds, The Pacific Islands: An Encyclopedia, Honolulu, 2000. Library copies

General Histories of the Pacific Region:

• Campbell, Ian C., A History of the Pacific Islands, Christchurch, 1992. Library copies
• Davidson, J.W. and Deryck Scarr, eds, Pacific Island Portraits, Canberra, 1970. Library copies
• Denoon, Donald et al., eds, The Cambridge History of the Pacific Islanders, Cambridge, 1997. Library copies
• Hooper, Anthony et al., eds, Class and Culture in the South Pacific, Auckland, 1988. Library copies
• Howe, K.R., Where the Waves Fall, Sydney, 1991. Library copies
• Howe, K.R., Robert C. Kiste, Brij V. Lal, eds, Tides of History: The Pacific Islands in the Twentieth Century, Sydney, 1994. Library copies
• Morrell, W.P., Britain in the Pacific Islands in the Nineteenth Century, Oxford, 1960. Library copies
• Oliver, Douglas L., The Pacific Islands, rev. edn, New York, 1989. Library copies
• Scarr, Deryck, The History of the Pacific Islands: Kingdoms of the Reefs, Melbourne, 1990. Library copies
• Scarr, Deryck, A History of the Pacific Islands: Passages through Tropical Time, London, 2001. Library copies
• Thompson, Roger C., The Pacific Basin since 1945: A History of the Foreign Relations of the Asian, Australian and American Rim States and the Pacific Islands, London, 2001. Especially chapters 5 and 8. Library copies
• Waddell, Eric, Vijay Naidu, and Epali Hau'ofa, eds, A New Oceania: Rediscovering Our Sea of Islands, Suva, 1993. Library copies

Reference books are an excellent place to start your research. You should then go on to read more in-depth journal articles and books.

• Craig, Robert D. and Frank P. King, Historical Dictionary of Oceania, Westport, Conn., 1981. Library copies
• Craig, Robert D., Historical Dictionary of Polynesia, Lanham, 2002. Library copies
• Dunmore, John, Who's Who in Pacific Navigation, Melbourne, 1992. Library copies
• The Journal of Pacific History Bibliography, Canberra, 1988-1997. Library copies
• Turner, Ann, Historical Dictionary of Papua New Guinea, 2nd edn, Lanham, 2001. Library copies
• Wuerch, William L. and Dirk Anthony Ballendorf, Historical Dictionary of Guam and Micronesia, Metuchen, 1994. Library copies

Library catalogue search tips

• Search for variant spellings: colonization or colonisation
• Use truncation symbols to find variant word endings: Search for Samoa* to find Samoa, Samoan, Samoans
• Search for synonyms and related terms: monarchy or royalty
  or to find all the word variants: monarch* or royal*
• Use quotation marks to find phrases: "London Missionary Society"

Search Examples
Pacific AND colonisation
Pacific AND (colonisation OR colonization)
(Pacific OR polynesia* OR melanesia*) AND (colonisation OR colonization)
Samoa* AND (christianity OR missionar*)
Tonga* AND (monarch* OR royal*)

Subject Headings

These general topics often have more specific subdivisions, for example:
   Tonga
   Tonga - History
   Tonga - History - Sources

The subject heading Oceania refers to the island groups of Melanesia, Micronesia, and Polynesia.
The subject heading Islands of the Pacific refers to all the islands of the Pacific Ocean including the North Pacific.

Journals

• Journal of the Polynesian Society
• Pacific Studies
• The Contemporary Pacific
• Journal of Pacific History

To find more articles you can use an online index or a database.

• Index New Zealand An index with abstracts from New Zealand journals, magazines and newspapers.
• Hawaii-Pacific Journal Index An index with abstracts from Pacific journals and magazines.
• Project Muse A collection of full-text journals covering many different subjects including Pacific Studies.

More databases are listed on the History resource pages.

Websites

• Te Puna Web Directory
  Websites with Pacific information.

Exam papers for HISTORY 104.