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Cooling the Tropics: Ice, Indigeneity, and Hawaiian Refreshment The Journal of Pacific History (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2024-08-07 Kale Kanaeholo
Published in The Journal of Pacific History (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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MANUSCRIPT XLIV: Inaugural Lecture: History, Lies and Mythology – the Historian and the Community The Journal of Pacific History (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2024-07-28 Alan Ward, Introduced by Adrian Muckle
Alan Ward (1935–2014) delivered his inaugural professorial address at the University of Newcastle, New South Wales, on 23 March 1988. Following his 1987 promotion to Professor, a position he held u...
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Tonga and the British Empire in the Great War: Loyalty and Neutrality The Journal of Pacific History (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2024-07-21 Peter J. Yearwood
The historiography of Tonga in the First World War is very sparse. It is dominated by Elizabeth Wood-Ellem’s authoritative biography of Queen Salote (Tupou III). She does not make use of the Coloni...
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From Copra Sequestration to Outboard Engine Trawling: Changes in the Carbon Footprint of Ontong Java Atoll, Solomon Islands The Journal of Pacific History (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2024-06-27 Tim Bayliss-Smith, Andreas Egelund Christensen
The colonial economy of Ontong Java Atoll, Solomon Islands, was centred on the sale of sun-dried copra. Atoll livelihoods depended on the ‘solar income’ freely available for growing coconuts and dr...
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Leading from the Frontline: A History of Pacific Climate Diplomacy The Journal of Pacific History (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2024-06-27 Wesley Morgan, Salā George Carter, Fulori Manoa
Pacific Island states have, for decades, considered climate change a threat to their security. In 1991, island leaders declared global warming and sea level rise as serious environmental threats, a...
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Five Centuries of Settlement Dynamics and Mobility in the Northern Raja Ampat Islands of West Papua The Journal of Pacific History (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2024-05-23 Dylan Gaffney, Daud Tanudirjo, Laura Arnold, Wolter Gaman, Tristan Russell, Erlin Djami, Abdul Macap
We explore changes to settlement and mobility in the northern Raja Ampat Islands (Waigeo, Gam, and Batanta) over the past five centuries, a time when speakers of several Austronesian languages were...
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Decolonizing Regional Politics in Oceania: Re-examining the Historical Record The Journal of Pacific History (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2024-05-05 Stephanie Lawson
Contemporary scholarship on the decolonization of regional organizations in Oceania has emphasized the agency of Indigenous leaders and the extent to which they led the charge to both decolonize th...
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Making Local Sense of a Global Disease: The 1918 Influenza Pandemic in Guam The Journal of Pacific History (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2024-04-16 Anne Perez Hattori
At the end of October 1918, influenza arrived on Guam aboard a US Navy vessel. It struck quickly and dramatically, killing 5 per cent of the Island’s population in a six-week span. Indeed, more Cha...
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The Story of Fai‘ota: Resolving an Ancient Conflict in Malaita, Solomon Islands The Journal of Pacific History (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2024-04-16 John Omani, Ben Burt
The people of Malaita in Solomon Islands identify with their ancestors through genealogical histories that shape relationships among families and clans. In 2020, John Omani, one of the authors of t...
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Remembering the Medical Tultul of Papua New Guinea The Journal of Pacific History (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2024-03-27 Alfred L. Scherzer
The existence of the medical tultul of Papua New Guinea is traced from inception during the German colonial period in 1903, as one part in a system of local village officials, until displacement in...
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Inaugural Brij Lal Memorial Lecture: Belonging, and Banishment from and in the Sea of Islands The Journal of Pacific History (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2024-03-27 Jacqueline Leckie
This is a written version of the Inaugural Brij Lal Memorial Lecture delivered for the Pacific History Association (PHA) conference at Warrnambool on 4 November 2023. It is in memory of Brij V. Lal...
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Looking for Lost Proficiency in East Polynesian Voyaging Traditions and Ethnology The Journal of Pacific History (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2024-03-25 Atholl Anderson
The lost proficiency hypothesis holds that ancient voyaging technology in East Polynesia was superior to that recorded historically. It provides an indispensable assumption for modern experimental ...
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Walter Niel Gunson (1930–2023) The Journal of Pacific History (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2024-03-20 Phyllis S. Herda
Published in The Journal of Pacific History (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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Customary Paths Toward Denuclearization and Decolonization: Mā‘ohi and Kanak Activists Passing Through lo Larzac The Journal of Pacific History (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2024-03-20 Clémence Maillochon
Networks of opposition to French nuclear testing were nourished by transnational solidarities. By the end of the 1970s, links between Kanak and Mā‘ohi expanded through trans-Pacific organizations s...
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Art/Story of the Niuklia Fri Pasifik: On Doing Creative Pacific Histories The Journal of Pacific History (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2024-02-26 Talei Luscia Mangioni
The transgressive spirit, critical flair, and cultural power of Pacific grassroots movements are too often ignored or relegated to the footnotes within the discipline of Pacific history. Through a ...
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Geschichtlos No More: The Trans-imperiality of German Colonial Expertise The Journal of Pacific History (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2024-02-20 Viktor M. Stoll
Published in The Journal of Pacific History (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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‘We will not Relax our Efforts’: The Anti-Nuclear Stance of Civil Society and Government in Post-Independence Fiji The Journal of Pacific History (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2024-02-14 Dimity Hawkins
In the years immediately following independence, Fiji took advantage of its position as the first Pacific Island country in the United Nations to highlight the harms of French nuclear testing. Buil...
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Robert Philp and the Politics of Development The Journal of Pacific History (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2024-01-16 Zach Wallis
Published in The Journal of Pacific History (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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Documents on Australian Foreign Policy: Australia and Papua New Guinea; The Transition to Self-government, 1970–1972; Documents on Australian Foreign Policy: Australia and Papua New Guinea; The Push to Independence, 1972–1975 The Journal of Pacific History (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2024-01-16 Stephanie Lawson
Published in The Journal of Pacific History (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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Introduction: Resistance and Survival – The Nuclear Era in the Pacific The Journal of Pacific History (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2024-01-07 Nic Maclellan
For many decades, historians, researchers, and participants have documented the history of the nuclear era in the Pacific Islands. They have highlighted the legacy of health and environmental impac...
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MANUSCRIPT XLIII: Petition to the United Nations Trusteeship Council from the Marshallese People, 20 April 1954 The Journal of Pacific History (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2023-12-27 Nic Maclellan
Anti-nuclear protests in the Pacific Islands began in the 1950s. There were a series of petitions throughout the decade as Islanders living under colonial administration sought assistance from the ...
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The Gallows of Girmit (1886–1919) The Journal of Pacific History (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2023-12-24 Margaret Mishra
Little is known about capital punishment in Fiji in the context of indenture. This paper examines cases of condemned Indians who migrated as indentured labourers (girmitiyas). It compiles and analy...
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‘Our Pacific Through Native Eyes’: Māori Activism in the Nuclear Free and Independent Pacific Movement, 1980–5 The Journal of Pacific History (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2023-12-18 Marco de Jong
The Nuclear Free and Independent Pacific movement (NFIP) developed a grassroots regionalism in opposition to nuclear colonialism in the Pacific. This article concerns Māori interactions with other ...
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Reframing Suffrage Narratives: Pacific Women, Political Voice, and Collective Empowerment The Journal of Pacific History (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2023-12-15 Sonia Palmieri, Elise Howard, Kerryn Baker
Dominant narratives of women’s suffrage have been shaped in ways that marginalize Pacific women’s experiences. Such narratives have emphasized the struggles of Global North women to achieve individ...
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Eight Months in the Cook Islands The Journal of Pacific History (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2023-12-15 Tim Jones
Tim Jones spent eight months working as a digital librarian and archivist at the University of the South Pacific (USP) Cook Islands Campus. He describes the work he did there on the USP’s archival ...
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On Two Different Personalities from Old Rapa Nui: Personal Effects of ‘ariki mau Nga‘ara (? – ca. 1859) and ‘Prophetess’ María Angata Veri Tahi (ca. 1853–1914) – Part II: Angata’s Bible The Journal of Pacific History (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2023-12-15 Tomi S. Melka, Robert M. Schoch
In Part I of this article, we discussed an English caplock pistol that reportedly belonged to the Easter Island (Rapa Nui) King Nga‘ara (? – ca. 1859) and the birdmen motif found on the pistol grip...
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Polynesian Agency and the Establishment of the French Centre for Pacific Tests The Journal of Pacific History (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2023-12-15 Renaud Meltz, Alexis Vrignon
Since the 1960s, the installation of the Centre for Pacific Tests (Centre d’expérimentation du Pacifique or CEP) in French Polynesia has given rise to important debates concerning the agency of the...
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Troubles and Puzzles: The 2022 General Elections in Papua New Guinea The Journal of Pacific History (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2023-12-15 Terence Wood, Maholopa Laveil, Michael Kabuni
This paper focuses on the 2022 general elections in Papua New Guinea, covering both electoral quality and election outcomes. Overall, the 2022 elections were very troubled. In parts of the country,...
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The Constitution That Never Was: Revisiting Fiji’s 2012 Draft The Journal of Pacific History (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2023-12-10 Jill Cottrell Ghai, Yash Pal Ghai
The authors take the view that the draft constitution prepared by the Fiji Constitution Commission in 2012, but rejected by the government in favour of the government-drafted 2013 document, deserve...
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‘Between Two Worlds’: The Origins, Operation, and Future of the 2013 Fiji Constitution The Journal of Pacific History (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2023-12-01 Anthony J. Regan, Coel Kirkby, Romitesh Kant
This article analyses the origins, practice, and prospects of the 2013 Fiji Constitution, which delivers on aspects of Brij Lal’s hopes for a civilian government under a liberal democratic constitu...
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A Fish Named Tahiti: Myths and Power in Ancient Polynesia (Tahiti, Ra‘iātea, Hawai‘i, Aotearoa New Zealand) The Journal of Pacific History (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2023-11-24 Vehia Wheeler
Published in The Journal of Pacific History (Ahead of Print, 2023)
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John Dunmore (1923–2023) The Journal of Pacific History (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2023-11-24 Raylene Ramsay
Published in The Journal of Pacific History (Vol. 59, No. 1, 2024)
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Queen Kaʻahumanu of Hawaiʻi: A Biography The Journal of Pacific History (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2023-11-19 Kale Kanaeholo
Published in The Journal of Pacific History (Ahead of Print, 2023)
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Paradox and Pity: What We Can Learn From Fiji’s Urban Squatter Settlements The Journal of Pacific History (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2023-11-19 Geir Henning Presterudstuen
This article discusses what might be gained from placing informal urban settlements at the centre of analyses of contemporary Fiji. Holding around 20 percent of the total population and growing rap...
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The Indigenous Rights Challenge to Common and Equal Citizenship in the ‘New’ Fiji The Journal of Pacific History (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2023-11-19 Robert Norton, Eta Varani
For most of its postcolonial history, Fiji’s government was under iTaukei (Indigenous Fijian) control, viewed by iTaukei as the guardian of their status and rights. However, iTaukei-headed governme...
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Fiji’s Foreign Relations, 2006–23 The Journal of Pacific History (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2023-11-19 Stewart Firth
From the time he assumed control over Fiji after the 2006 coup, military commander and self-appointed prime minister Frank Bainimarama was determined to assert Fiji’s independent stance in foreign ...
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A Political History of the Subject: Brij V. Lal on Leadership The Journal of Pacific History (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2023-11-14 Jack Corbett
Brij V. Lal was the most prolific writer on post-colonial politics in Fiji. Many of these writings concerned political leaders and the nature of political leadership. Biographies of A.D. Patel and ...
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Editors’ Introduction: Brij V. Lal and the Contemporary Politics of Fiji The Journal of Pacific History (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2023-11-09 Doug Munro, Jon Fraenkel
This special issue of the Journal of Pacific History brings together several scholars, who were close to Professor Brij Lal, to write on the contemporary politics of Fiji. Brij died on 25 December ...
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Coconut Colonialism: Workers and the Globalization of Samoa The Journal of Pacific History (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2023-11-08 Victoria Stead
Published in The Journal of Pacific History (Ahead of Print, 2023)
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The Anatomy of Frank Bainimarama’s Defeat at the Fiji December 2022 Election The Journal of Pacific History (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2023-10-30 Jon Fraenkel
Fiji’s 14 December 2022 election saw the defeat of 2006 coup leader turned civilian prime minister Frank Bainimarama’s FijiFirst Party, and victory for an opposition coalition led by Sitiveni Rabuk...
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Imperial Resurgence: How French Polynesia Was Chosen as the Site for the French Centre for Pacific Tests (CEP) The Journal of Pacific History (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2023-08-11 Renaud Meltz, Alexis Vrignon, Sylvain Mary
ABSTRACT This paper addresses the question of how French Polynesia was selected as the site for the French Centre for Pacific Tests in the 1960s. We argue that the Centre’s construction constituted an imperial resurgence for French Polynesia, marking the encounter and reconfiguration of different and previously unfamiliar worldviews. The article elucidates the rationales behind the choice of French
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Beyond These Shores: Aotearoa and the World The Journal of Pacific History (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2023-08-08 Ingjerd Hoëm
Published in The Journal of Pacific History (Vol. 58, No. 4, 2023)
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On Two Different Personalities from Old Rapa Nui: Personal Effects of ‘ariki mau Nga‘ara (? – ca. 1859) and ‘Prophetess’ María Angata Veri Tahi (ca. 1853–1914) – Part I: The Pistol of Nga‘ara The Journal of Pacific History (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2023-08-07 Tomi S. Melka, Robert M. Schoch
ABSTRACT Two artefacts located in private collections are the focus of this study. A caplock pistol and a Holy Bible, both dating from the middle of the 19th century and originating from England, are examined in order to be coaxed to ‘speak’. They belonged to Nga‘ara and María Angata Veri Tahi respectively, who are among the most recognized Indigenous personalities of pre- and post-1864 Rapa Nui (Easter
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‘Renegade’ Resistance and Colonial Rule in German Samoa The Journal of Pacific History (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2023-07-18 Matthew P. Fitzpatrick
While German Samoa has appeared to some historians as a colony that demonstrates the benevolence of liberal colonial government, this article argues that Germany’s administration of Samoa should no...
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Voyages: Stories of an Ocean People The Journal of Pacific History (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2023-07-01 Max Quanchi
Published in The Journal of Pacific History (Vol. 58, No. 4, 2023)
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Morning Star Rising: The Politics of Decolonization in West Papua The Journal of Pacific History (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2023-06-27 Jenny Munro
Published in The Journal of Pacific History (Vol. 58, No. 4, 2023)
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Brij V. Lal (1952–2021) The Journal of Pacific History (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2023-05-28 Clive Moore
Published in The Journal of Pacific History (Vol. 58, No. 3, 2023)
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Maisin Recollections of the Kokoda Campaign, 1942-3 The Journal of Pacific History (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2023-04-04 John Barker
The contributions of Papua New Guinean labourers in the brutal Kokoda Track campaign of 1942–3 have long been acknowledged, yet firsthand accounts are extremely rare. During fieldwork in Maisin vil...
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Nungon, Patrol Officers, and Missionaries: Differing Narratives about Two Key Events in the History of Nungon People of New Guinea The Journal of Pacific History (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2023-03-27 Martin Soukup
ABSTRACT The objective of the paper is an analysis of selected historical events that took place in Uruwa Valley among Nungon people. The events – relocation of a village and religious conflict – still affect the life of the community. The author has partially reconstructed the events using archival materials, especially patrol reports, and printed documents. The course of reconstructed events differs
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Making Law in Papua New Guinea: The Colonial Origins of a Postcolonial Legal System The Journal of Pacific History (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2023-03-22 Alex Golub
Published in The Journal of Pacific History (Vol. 58, No. 4, 2023)
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Suva Stories: A History of the Capital of Fiji The Journal of Pacific History (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2023-03-21 Clive Moore
Published in The Journal of Pacific History (Vol. 58, No. 4, 2023)
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E Vaine Toa, E Rangatira: Marjorie Tuainekore Crocombe (D.Litt), 1930–2022 The Journal of Pacific History (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2023-03-18 Debi Futter-Puati
Published in The Journal of Pacific History (Vol. 58, No. 2, 2023)
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Wharenui Harikoa The Journal of Pacific History (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2023-03-18 Pounamu Jade William Emery Aikman
Published in The Journal of Pacific History (Vol. 58, No. 3, 2023)
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The Beharell Patrol of 1938: The First Government Patrol Across the Land of Kubo People (Nomad District, Western Province, Papua New Guinea) The Journal of Pacific History (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2023-03-18 Monica Minnegal, Peter D. Dwyer
ABSTRACT In 1938, John S. Beharell led the first colonial government patrol into the then ‘uncontrolled’ land of Kubo people east of the Strickland River. That patrol is not referred to in reports of subsequent patrols a decade and more later. Nor does it appear in published histories of the area. That is unfortunate, for Beharell encountered a social landscape that differed from the landscape documented
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In Memory of Times to Come: Ironies of History in Southeastern Papua New Guinea The Journal of Pacific History (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2023-03-15 Aletta Biersack
Published in The Journal of Pacific History (Vol. 58, No. 4, 2023)
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The Last White Canoe of the Lau of Malaita, Solomon Islands The Journal of Pacific History (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2023-03-06 Ian Frazer
Published in The Journal of Pacific History (Vol. 58, No. 4, 2023)
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The Ambiguous History of Matthew and Hunter Islands: Tracing the Roots of Vanuatu and French Claims The Journal of Pacific History (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2023-01-14 Lili Song, Morsen Mosses, Geraldine Giraudeau
ABSTRACT Matthew and Hunter Islands (MHIs) are two small uninhabited islands located between Vanuatu and New Caledonia. Both Vanuatu and France claim sovereignty over the MHIs and vast maritime zones around them. This article examines the history of sovereignty claims to the MHIs. Although existing literature often refers to an annexation of the MHIs by France in 1929 and a 1976 transfer of the MHIs
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Placental Politics: CHamoru Women, White Womanhood, and Indigeneity under U.S. Colonialism in Guam The Journal of Pacific History (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2022-12-28 Barbara Andersen
Published in The Journal of Pacific History (Vol. 58, No. 3, 2023)
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Uncovering Pacific Pasts: Histories of Archaeology in Oceania The Journal of Pacific History (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2022-12-26 Charles J.T. Radclyffe
Published in The Journal of Pacific History (Vol. 58, No. 3, 2023)
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Corrections: An Update to ‘The Making of Tupaia’s Map’ The Journal of Pacific History (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2022-12-22 Lars Eckstein, Anja Schwarz
ABSTRACT This article offers an update to research presented in a long essay, entitled ‘The Making of Tupaia’s Map’, first published in early 2019 in the Journal of Pacific History. Its starting point is a voyaging path from Rarotonga to Pukapuka in the northern Cook Islands depicted on Tupaia’s charts which we had missed in our earlier research. While making a number of adjustments and corrections