When Western scholars write about non-Western societies, do they inevitably perpetuate the
myths of European imperialism? Can they ever articulate the meanings and logics of non …

" With unparalleled knowledge of Polynesia's history, ecology, languages, and archaeology,
Patrick V. Kirch shows us how, when, and why Hawaiian society crossed the gulf from …

Scholars and researchers have long believed that the ability to irrigate is crucial to the
development of civilizations. In this book, archaeologist Patrick Kirch challenges this" …

Oceania is characterized by thousands of islands and archipelagoes amidst the vast
expanse of the Pacific. Although it is one of the few truly oceanic habitats occupied …

The sociopolitical system of late prehistoric Hawaii was among the most complex of any
Oceanic chiefdom, as indexed by such characteristics as scale, rate of energy extraction …

Historians and archaeologists define primary states—" cradles of civilization" from which all
modern nation states ultimately derive—as significant territorially-based, autonomous …

In 1778 Captain James Cook made his first visit to the Hawaiian Islands. The members of his
expedition and subsequent visitors brought to the previously isolated Hawaiian people new …

TWENTY years ago when Margaret Titcomb was finishing her manuscript for this book there
was little concern that the oceans of the earth might be endangered. Without doubt …

When Louis Antoine de Bougainville reached Tahiti in 1768, he was struck by the way in
which'All these people came crying out tayo, which means friend, and gave a thousand …

In the nineteenth century, the colonial territories of California and Hawai'i underwent
important cultural, economic, and ecological transformations influenced by an unlikely factor …