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Ruth Mandujano López, "Steamships Across the Pacific: Maritime Journeys between Mexico, China, and Japan, 1867–1914" (U Hong Kong Press, 2025)
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Apr 09, 2026 |
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Gregory Smits, "The Ryukyu Islands: A New History from the Stone Age to the Present" (U Chicago Press, 2026)
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Mar 30, 2026 |
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Mike Pitts, "Island at the Edge of the World: The Forgotten History of Easter Island" (Bloomsbury, 2025)
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Mar 11, 2026 |
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Allison Powers, "Arbitrating Empire: United States Expansion and the Transformation of International Law" (Oxford UP, 2024)
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Feb 23, 2026 |
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Jacqueline Couti and Anny Dominique Curtius, "Women, Theory, Praxis, and Performativities: Transoceanic Entanglements in Francophone Settings" (Liverpool UP, 2025)
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Feb 03, 2026 |
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Jason Roberts, "We Stay the Same: Subsistence, Logging, and Enduring Hopes for Development in Papua New Guinea" (U Arizona Press, 2024)
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Feb 02, 2026 |
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Q. Edward Wang, "Staple to Superfood: A Global History of the Sweet Potato" (Columbia UP, 2025)
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Jan 14, 2026 |
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Joanna Siekiera, "International Law and Security in Indo-Pacific: Strategic Design for the Region" (Routledge, 2025)
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Dec 20, 2025 |
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Aaron Smale, "Tairāwhiti: Pine, Profit and the Cyclone" (Bridget Williams, 2024)
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Dec 09, 2025 |
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Jessica Urwin, "Contaminated Country: Nuclear Colonialism and Aboriginal Resistance in Australia" (U of Washington Press, 2025)
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Sep 09, 2025 |
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K. Ian Shin, "Imperial Stewards: Chinese Art and the Making of America's Pacific Century" (Stanford UP, 2025)
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Aug 23, 2025 |
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Nicholas Thomas, "Voyagers: The Settlement of the Pacific" (Apollo, 2020)
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Jul 20, 2025 |
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Kelly A. Spring, "SPAM: A Global History" (Reaktion, 2025)
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Jul 16, 2025 |
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Coll Thrush, "Wrecked: Unsettling Histories from the Graveyard of the Pacific" (University of Washington Press, 2025)
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Jun 03, 2025 |
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Tuomas Tammisto, "Hard Work: Producing Places, Relations and Value on a Papua New Guinea Resource Frontier" (Helsinki UP, 2024)
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Apr 05, 2025 |
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David Oakeshott, "Schooling, Conflict and Peace in the Southwestern Pacific: Becoming Enemy Friends" (Bristol UP, 2024)
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Mar 26, 2025 |
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Kathrin Bartha-Mitchell, "Cosmological Readings of Contemporary Australian Literature: Unsettling the Anthropocene" (Routledge, 2024)
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Feb 28, 2025 |
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Educational Inequality in Fijian Higher Education
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Feb 25, 2025 |
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David R. Saunders, "Chasing Archipelagic Dreams: The Expansion of Foreign Influence in Sabah amid the End of Empire, 1945–1965" (Cornell UP, 2024)
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Feb 25, 2025 |
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Angela Wanhalla et al., "Te Hau Kainga: The Maori Home Front during the Second World War" (Auckland UP, 2024)
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Feb 02, 2025 |
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Adrian de Leon, "Bundok: A Hinterland History of Filipino America" (UNC Press, 2023)
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Jan 11, 2025 |
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Dean Itsuji Saranillio, "Unsustainable Empire: Alternative Histories of Hawai‘i Statehood" (Duke UP, 2018)
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Jan 06, 2025 |
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China and the Indo-Pacific: Policies and Global Implications
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Dec 27, 2024 |
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Emily Mitchell-Eaton, "New Destinations of Empire: Mobilities, Racial Geographies, and Citizenship in the Transpacific United States" (U Georgia Press, 2024)
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Dec 22, 2024 |
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Julian Hanna, "Island" (Bloomsbury, 2024)
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Nov 21, 2024 |
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Juan José Rivas Moreno, "The Capital Market of Manila and the Pacific Trade, 1668-1838" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2024)
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Oct 07, 2024 |
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Sarah Miller-Davenport, "Gateway State: Hawai’i and the Cultural Transformation of American Empire" (Princeton UP, 2019)
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Sep 01, 2024 |
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The Dragon and the Nguzunguzu
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Aug 19, 2024 |
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Mavis Kerinaiua and Laura Rademaker, "Tiwi Story: Turning History Downside Up" (NewSouth, 2023)
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Aug 18, 2024 |
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Roger Crowley, "Spice: The 16th-Century Contest that Shaped the Modern World" (Yale UP, 2024)
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Aug 01, 2024 |
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Michael J. Sheridan, "Roots of Power: The Political Ecology of Boundary Plants" (Routledge, 2023)
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Jul 31, 2024 |
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Kristie Flannery, "Piracy and the Making of the Spanish Pacific World" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2024)
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Jul 28, 2024 |
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Justin B. Stein, "Alternate Currents: Reiki’s Circulation in the Twentieth-Century North Pacific" (U Hawaii Press, 2023)
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Jul 27, 2024 |
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Derek Taira, "Forward without Fear: Native Hawaiians and American Education in Territorial Hawai'i, 1900-1941" (U Nebraska Press, 2024)
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Jul 27, 2024 |
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Anaïs Maurer, "The Ocean on Fire: Pacific Stories from Nuclear Survivors and Climate Activists" (Duke UP, 2023)
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Jul 23, 2024 |
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Sino-Pacific Relations: A Discussion with Rodolfo Maggio
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Jul 15, 2024 |
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Alfred Peredo Flores, "Tip of the Spear: Land, Labor, and US Settler Militarism in Guåhan, 1944–1962" (Cornell UP, 2023)
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Jul 14, 2024 |
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Joanna Siekiera, "21st Century as the Pacific Century: Culture and Security of Oceania States in Great Power Competition" (Warsaw UP, 2023)
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Jun 18, 2024 |
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Sidney Xu Lu, "The Making of Japanese Settler Colonialism" (Cambridge UP, 2019)
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Jun 14, 2024 |
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Miles M. Evers and Eric Grynaviski, "The Price of Empire: American Entrepreneurs and the Origins of America's First Pacific Empire" (Cambridge UP, 2024)
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Jun 07, 2024 |
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Martin Dusinberre, "Mooring the Global Archive: A Japanese Ship and Its Migrant Histories" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
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May 19, 2024 |
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Andrés Reséndez, "Conquering the Pacific: An Unknown Mariner and the Final Great Voyage of the Age of Discovery" (Mariner Books, 2022)
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Apr 27, 2024 |
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Nell Freudenberger, "The Limits" (Knopf, 2024)
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Apr 02, 2024 |
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Emily Conroy-Krutz, "Missionary Diplomacy: Religion and Nineteenth-Century American Foreign Relations" (Cornell UP, 2024)
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Mar 24, 2024 |
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Angela Wanhalla, "Of Love and War: Pacific Brides of World War II" (U Nebraska Press, 2023)
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Feb 25, 2024 |
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Daniel Immerwahr, "How to Hide an Empire: The History of the Greater United States" (FSG, 2019)
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Feb 11, 2024 |
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Kiribati in the Chinese Pacific: A Discussion with Rodolfo Maggio
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Feb 02, 2024 |
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Leanne Trapedo Sims, "Reckoning with Restorative Justice: Hawai'i Women's Prison Writing" (Duke UP, 2023)
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Jan 19, 2024 |
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Brandon Presser, "The Far Land: 200 Years of Murder, Mania and Mutiny in the South Pacific" (Icon Books, 2022)
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Jan 10, 2024 |
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Jeremy Yellen, "The Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere: When Total Empire Met Total War" (Cornell UP, 2019)
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Dec 26, 2023 |
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Jeremy Black, "A Brief History of the Pacific: The Great Ocean" (Robinson, 2023)
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Oct 02, 2023 |
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Jared Davidson, "Blood and Dirt: Prison Labour and the Making of New Zealand" (Bridget Williams Books, 2023)
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Sep 28, 2023 |
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A Better Way to Buy Books
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Sep 12, 2023 |
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L. M. Ratnapalan, "Robert Louis Stevenson and the Pacific: The Transformation of Global Christianity" (Edinburgh UP, 2023)
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Sep 09, 2023 |
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Clive Moore, "Making Mala: Malaita in Solomon Islands, 1870s–1930s" (Australia National UP, 2017)
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Sep 07, 2023 |
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Quito J. Swan, "Pauulu's Diaspora: Black Internationalism and Environmental Justice" (UP of Florida, 2020)
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Aug 17, 2023 |
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Steve Mentz, "An Introduction to the Blue Humanities" (Routledge, 2023)
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Jul 27, 2023 |
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Scott E. Simon, "Truly Human: Indigeneity and Indigenous Resurgence on Formosa" (U Toronto Press, 2023)
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Jul 20, 2023 |
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Lin Poyer, "War at the Margins: Indigenous Experiences in World War II" (U Hawaii Press, 2022)
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Jun 17, 2023 |
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Moon-Ho Jung, "Menace to Empire: Anticolonial Solidarities and the Transpacific Origins of the US Security State" (U California Press, 2022)
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Jun 14, 2023 |
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Christina Gerhardt, "Sea Change: An Atlas of Islands in a Rising Ocean" (U California Press, 2023)
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May 23, 2023 |
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Christen T. Sasaki, "Pacific Confluence: Fighting Over the Nation in Nineteenth-Century Hawai'i" (U California Press, 2022)
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Apr 28, 2023 |
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Peter Meihana, "Privilege in Perpetuity: Exploding a Pākehā Myth" (Bridget Williams Books, 2022)
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Apr 08, 2023 |
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Book Chat: Oceanic Writing
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Mar 09, 2023 |
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Shaping Civilisations: The Sea in Asian History
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Jan 26, 2023 |
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Amanda Hendrix-Komoto, "Imperial Zions: Religion, Race, and Family in the American West and the Pacific" (U Nebraska Press, 2022)
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Jan 03, 2023 |
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Quito J. Swan, "Pasifika Black: Oceania, Anti-Colonialism, and the African World" (NYU Press, 2022)
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Dec 20, 2022 |
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Elaine Pearson, "Chasing Wrongs and Rights: My Experience Defending Human Rights Around the World" (Simon & Schuster, 2022)
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Dec 16, 2022 |
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Tom Bratrud, "Fire on the Island: Fear, Hope and a Christian Revival in Vanuatu" (Berghahn Books, 2022)
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Dec 10, 2022 |
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Anna Dziedzic, "Foreign Judges in the Pacific" (Hart Publishing, 2021)
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Nov 25, 2022 |
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James Griffiths, "Speak Not: Empire, Identity and the Politics of Language" (Zed Books, 2021)
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Nov 15, 2022 |
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Thom van Dooren, "A World in a Shell: Snail Stories for a Time of Extinctions" (MIT Press, 2022)
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Nov 07, 2022 |
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John Richens, "Tik Merauke: An Epidemic Like No Other" (Melbourne UP, 2022)
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Sep 21, 2022 |
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Ugo Corte, "Dangerous Fun: The Social Lives of Big Wave Surfers" (U Chicago Press, 2022)
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Sep 07, 2022 |
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Lisa Uperesa, "Gridiron Capital: How American Football Became a Samoan Game" (Duke UP, 2022)
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Aug 16, 2022 |
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Nicholas Ferns, "Australia in the Age of International Development, 1945–1975: Colonial and Foreign Aid Policy in Papua New Guinea and Southeast Asia" (Palgrave MacMillan, 2020)
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Aug 05, 2022 |
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Nic Maclellan, "Grappling with the Bomb: Britain’s Pacific H-Bomb Tests" (ANU Press, 2017)
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Jul 27, 2022 |
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Holger Droessler, "Coconut Colonialism: Workers and the Globalization of Samoa" (Harvard UP, 2022)
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Jun 15, 2022 |
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Evyn Lê Espiritu Gandhi, "Archipelago of Resettlement: Vietnamese Refugee Settlers and Decolonization Across Guam and Israel-Palestine" (U California Press, 2022)
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May 23, 2022 |
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Mikaela Nyman and Rebecca Tobo Olul-Hossen, "Sista, Stanap Strong!: A Vanuatu Women's Anthology" (Te Herenaa Waka UP, 2021)
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Apr 21, 2022 |
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Nitasha Tamar Sharma, "Hawai'i Is My Haven: Race and Indigeneity in the Black Pacific" (Duke UP, 2021)
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Mar 30, 2022 |
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Sophie Chao, "In the Shadow of the Palms: More-Than-Human Becomings in West Papua" (Duke UP, 2022)
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Mar 29, 2022 |
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77* Polynesia, Sea of Islands: with Christina Thompson
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Mar 17, 2022 |
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Tamihana Te Rauparaha, "Record of the Life of the Great Te Rauparaha" (Auckland UP, 2021)
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Nov 16, 2021 |
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Emalani Case, "Everything Ancient Was Once New: Indigenous Persistence from Hawaiʻi to Kahiki" (U Hawaii Press, 2021)
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Aug 20, 2021 |
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Patricia O’Brien, "Tautai: Sāmoa, World History, and the Life of Ta’isi O.F. Nelson" (U Hawaii Press, 2017)
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Aug 12, 2021 |
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Buzzy Kerbox, "Making Waves" (Legacy Isle Publishing, 2019)
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Aug 11, 2021 |
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Emalani Case, "Everything Ancient Was Once New: Indigenous Persistence from Hawaiʻi to Kahiki" (U Hawaii Press, 2021)
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Jul 21, 2021 |
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Nicholas Thomas, "Voyagers: The Settlement of the Pacific" (Apollo, 2020)
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Jul 19, 2021 |
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Joy Schulz, "Hawaiian by Birth: Missionary Children, Bicultural Identity, and U. S. Colonialism in the Pacific" (U Nebraska Press, 2020)
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Jun 11, 2021 |
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Robert T. Tierney, "Tropics of Savagery: The Culture of Japanese Empire in Comparative Frame" (U California Press, 2010)
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Apr 22, 2021 |
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Candace Fujikane, "Mapping Abundance for a Planetary Future: Kanaka Maoli and Critical Settler Cartography in Hawai'i" (Duke UP, 2021)
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Apr 21, 2021 |
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David Abulafia, "The Boundless Sea: A Human History of the Oceans" (Allen Lane, 2019)
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Feb 10, 2021 |
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Emilia E. Skrzypek, "Revealing the Invisible Mine: Social Complexities of an Undeveloped Mining Project" (Berghahn, 2020)
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Feb 03, 2021 |
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Trading Birds of Paradise: A Brief History by Jude Philp
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Jan 28, 2021 |
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Lamont Lindstrom, "Tanna Times: Islanders in the World" (U Hawaii Press, 2021)
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Nov 24, 2020 |
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Jana K. Lipman, "In Camps: Vietnamese Refugees, Asylum Seekers, and Repatriates" (U California Press, 2020)
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Oct 30, 2020 |
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G. S. Rosenthal, "Beyond Hawai‘i: Native Labor in the Pacific World" (U California Press, 2018)
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Aug 18, 2020 |
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Maile Arvin, "Possessing Polynesians: The Science of Settler Colonial Whiteness in Hawai‘i and Oceania" (Duke UP, 2020)
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Aug 13, 2020 |
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John C. McManus, "Fire and Fortitude: The US Army in the Pacific War, 1941-1943 (Dutton Caliber, 2019)
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Aug 06, 2020 |
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Linda Goddard, "Savage Tales: The Writings of Paul Gauguin" (Yale UP, 2019)
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Jul 31, 2020 |
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JoAnna Poblete, "Balancing the Tides: Marine Practices in American Samoa" (U Hawai’i Press, 2020)
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Jul 28, 2020 |
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Matt Tomlinson, "God is Samoan: Dialogues Between Culture and Theology in the Pacific" (U Hawai‘i Press, 2020)
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Jun 23, 2020 |
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Chelsea McCracken, "A Grammar of Belep" (Walter de Gruyter, 2019)
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Apr 09, 2020 |
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Kirsten L. Ziomek, "Lost Histories: Recovering the Lives of Japan’s Colonial Peoples" (Harvard Asia Center. 2019)
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Mar 16, 2020 |
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Elise Berman, "Talking Like Children: Language and the Production of Age in the Marshall Islands" (Oxford UP, 2019)
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Mar 02, 2020 |
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Don Kulick, "A Death in the Rainforest: How a Language and a Way of Life Came to an End in Papua New Guinea" (Algonquin Books, 2019)
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Oct 07, 2019 |
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Rob Ruck, "Tropic of Football: The Long and Perilous Journey of Samoans to the NFL" (The New Press, 2018)
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Sep 17, 2019 |
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Dean Itsuji Saranillio, "Unsustainable Empire: Alternative Histories of Hawai‘i Statehood" (Duke UP, 2018)
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Aug 19, 2019 |
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Christina Thompson, "Sea People: The Puzzle of Polynesia" (Harper, 2019)
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Jul 25, 2019 |
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Sarah Miller-Davenport, "Gateway State: Hawai’i and the Cultural Transformation of American Empire" (Princeton UP, 2019)
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May 21, 2019 |
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Jessica Hardin, "Faith and the Pursuit of Health: Cardiometabolic Disorders in Samoa" (Rutgers UP, 2018)
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Mar 14, 2019 |
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Daniel Immerwahr, "How to Hide an Empire: The History of the Greater United States" (FSG, 2019)
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Mar 07, 2019 |
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Noenoe K. Silva, "Steel-Tipped Pen: Reconstructing Native Hawaiian Intellectual History" (Duke UP, 2017)
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Dec 10, 2018 |
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Seth Archer, “Sharks Upon the Land: Colonialism, Indigenous Health, and Culture in Hawai’i, 1778-1855” (Cambridge UP, 2018)
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Sep 04, 2018 |
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Christopher B. Patterson, “Transitive Cultures: Anglophone Literature of the Transpacific” (Rutgers UP, 2018)
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Mar 26, 2018 |
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John Ryan Fischer, “Cattle Colonialism: An Environmental History of the Conquest of California and Hawai’i” (UNC Press, 2015)
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Nov 13, 2017 |
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Marie Alohalani Brown, “Facing the Spears of Change: The Life and Legacy of John Papa Ii” (U. Hawaii Press, 2016)
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Oct 27, 2017 |
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Stephen Dupont, “Piksa Niugini” (Peabody Press/Radius Books, 2013)
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Oct 18, 2016 |
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Nicole Starosielski, “The Undersea Network” (Duke UP, 2015)
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Aug 25, 2015 |
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Matt Tomlinson, “Ritual Textuality: Pattern and Motion in Performance” (Oxford UP, 2014)
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Jan 06, 2015 |
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Vernadette V. Gonzalez, “Securing Paradise: Tourism and Militarism in Hawai’i and the Philippines” (Duke UP, 2013)
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Sep 22, 2014 |
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Daniel Sherman, "French Primitivism and the Ends of Empire, 1945-1975" (U Chicago Press, 2011)
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Dec 05, 2013 |
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Noelani Goodyear-Kapua, “The Seeds We Planted: Portraits of a Native Hawaiian Charter School” (University of Minnesota Press, 2013)
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Jul 08, 2013 |
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Paul Watson, “Up Pohnpei: A Quest to Reclaim the Soul of Football by Leading the World’s Ultimate Underdogs to Glory” (Profile Books, 2012)
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Mar 29, 2012 |