Tahiti Nui Change and Survival in French Polynesia, 1767-1945

• Yazar: Newbury, Colin W. (auth)
• Materyal Türü: Elektronik Kitap Bölümü
• Dil: İngilizce
• Baskı/Yayın Bilgisi: University of Hawai'i Press 2018
• Konular: Australasian & Pacific history
• Online Erişim: DOAB: download the publication; DOAB: description of the publication

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. Newbury has separated the various strands interw...