The Kanak Awakening: The Rise of Nationalism in New Caledonia

by David A. Chappell and David A. Chappell

In 1853, France annexed the Melanesian islands of New Caledonia to establish a convict colony and strategic port of call. Unlike other European settler-dominated countries in the Pacific, the territory's indigenous people remained more numerous than immigrants for over a century. Despite military conquest, land dispossession, and epidemics, its thirty language groups survived on tribal reserves and nurtured customary traditions and identities...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0824838181
• ISBN13: 9780824838188
• Release Date: October 2013
• Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.49 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.1" x 9.3"