Paradise Past: The Transformation of the South Pacific, 1520-1920

by Robert W. Kirk

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. Exotic diseases from Europe and America, particularly the worldwide influenza pandemic, were deadly for islanders. Ardent missionaries changed the belief systems and lives of nearly all Polynesians, Aborigines, and those Papuans and Melanesians living in areas accessible to westerners. By 1920 every island...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0786469781
• ISBN13: 9780786469789
• Release Date: November 2012
• Publisher: McFarland & Company
• Length: 296 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.9" x 9.9"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher