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This book is a volume in the Penn Press Anniversary Collection. To mark its 125th anniversary in 2015, the University of Pennsylvania Press rereleased more than 1, 100 titles from Penn Press's distinguished backlist from 1899-1999 that had fallen out of print. Spanning an entire century, the Anniversary Collection offers peer-reviewed scholarship in a wide range of subject areas.

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The South Pacific since 1513' is a chronicle of over 1200 principal events in Australia, New Zealand, Polynesian and Melanesian islands, New Guinea, and Robinson Crusoe Island. This book is a comprehensive history and research tool.

In the 400 years from Magellan's entrance into Pacific waters to 1920, the lives of the people of the South Pacific were utterly transformed. Pacific people died from exotic diseases from Europe and America. Missionaries changed the belief systems and lives. By 1920 every island in the South Seas had been claimed as a colony or protectorate of a power such as Britain, France or the US. The coming of westerners, as this book points out, was not...

A natural and cultural history of the leech, which despite its loathsome reputation is actually one of humanity's most enduring and beneficial companions.

The infamous Bounty mutiny of 1790 culminated in nine mutineers taking up residence on the small Pitcairn Island in the South Pacific. Rivalry over Polynesian women soon led to homicidal strife and, by 1808 John Adams was the only mutineer alive. Beginning with a background look at the circumstances surrounding the mutiny, this volume provides a detailed history of the Pitcairn islanders from the original settlement to the opening years of the...