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Island off the Coast of Asia: Instruments of Statecraft in Australian Foreign Policy, by Clinton Fernandes (Rowman & Littlefield, 2018; Monash University Press, 2018)

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Island off the Coast of Asia: Instruments of Statecraft in Australian Foreign Policy, by Clinton Fernandes (Rowman & Littlefield, 2018; Monash University Press, 2018)

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Island off the Coast of Asia: Instruments of Statecraft in Australian Foreign Policy. By Clinton Fernandes. (Monash University Publishing)

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Island Geographies: Essays and conversations, edited by Elaine Stratford (Routledge, 2016)

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Island Geographies: Essays and conversations, edited by Elaine Stratford (Routledge, 2016)

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Islands and their environs - aerial, terrestrial, aquatic - may be understood as intensifiers, their particular and distinctive geographies enabling concentrated study of many kinds of challenges and opportunities. This edited collection...

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Indigenous Forest Management In the Andaman and Nicobar Islands, India, by Kavita Arora (Springer, 2018)

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Indigenous Forest Management In the Andaman and Nicobar Islands, India | Kavita Arora | Springer

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This authored book examines how far the existing regime of intellectual property rights can safeguard the rights of indigenous people. It explores forest management in the Andaman and Nicobar Islands, comparing the 'Joint Forest Management' resolution with the practices of indigenous people. ...

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Música de Chiloé: Folklore, Syncretism and Cultural Development in a Chilean Aquapelago, by Waldo Garrido, Dan Bendrups, and Philip Hayward (Routledge, 2019)

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Música de Chiloé: Folklore, Syncretism and Cultural Development in a Chilean Aquapelago, by Waldo Garrido, Dan Bendrups, and Philip Hayward (Routledge, 2019)

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The islands of Chiloé, in southern Chile, have developed a distinct culture over several centuries, blending indigenous traditions and Spanish settler heritage to create a vibrant pattern of folklore, music, dance, and related creative practices. This cultural heritage has become an important aspect of the islands' identity and is key to their successful marketing as a tourist destination.

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Indigenous Pacific Approaches to Climate Change: Pacific Island Countries, by Jenny Bryant-Tokalau (Palgrave Pivot, 2018)

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Indigenous Pacific Approaches to Climate Change: Pacific Island Countries, by Jenny Bryant-Tokalau (Palgrave Pivot, 2018)

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Indigenous Pacific Approaches to Climate Change - Pacific Island Countries | Jenny Bryant-Tokalau | Palgrave Macmillan

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This book demonstrates how local knowledge-practice-belief systems can be used to inform adaptation to disasters wherever they occur. ...

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The Moral Economy of Mobile Phones: Pacific Islands Perspectives, edited by Robert J. Foster and Heather A. Horst (ANU P, 2018)

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The Moral Economy of Mobile Phones: Pacific Islands Perspectives, edited by Robert J. Foster and Heather A. Horst (ANU P, 2018)

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The moral economy of mobile phones implies a field of shifting relations among consumers, companies and state actors, all of whom have their own ideas about what is good, fair and just.

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The Wake of the Whale: Hunter Societies in the Caribbean and North Atlantic, by Russell Fielding (Harvard UP, 2018)

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The Wake of the Whale: Hunter Societies in the Caribbean and North Atlantic, by Russell Fielding (Harvard UP, 2018)

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The Wake of the Whale - Russell Fielding | Harvard University Press

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Despite declining stocks and health risks, island communities in the Caribbean and North Atlantic still use traditional methods to hunt whales and dolphins for food. Russell Fielding presents the art, history, and purpose of whaling in these different cultures and describes what their future might look like as modern realities take hold.

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The Seychelles Since 1770: The History of a Slave and Post-Slavery Society, by Deryck Scarr (Revised edition; Hurst, 2018)

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The Seychelles Since 1770: The History of a Slave and Post-Slavery Society, by Deryck Scarr (Revised edition; Hurst, 2018)

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History of a Slave and Post-Slavery Society

A comprehensive history of the Seychelles, this volume traces its periods of colonisation by France and Britain, the immobile years of the twentieth century, the granting of independence in 1976, and the social changes precipitated by tourism in the late-1990s.

Deryck Scarr of the Emeritus Faculty at ANU in Canberra is the author of books on Seychelles, the Mascareignes, and Pacific Islands. He first worked in Suva's extensive archives in 1962-3 and has spent a good deal of time in Fiji since then.

'Scarr has produced an extremely readable book on the history of the Seychelle islands. There has been little written on this subject that is available to a wider public outside the Seychelles. [...] he has amassed a considerable amount of material derived from sources far and wide. [...] in bringing together such disparate sources, Scarr has been able to reconstruct an internal picture of Seychelles society during the period of slavery and post-slavery. [...] He has also masterfully captured the capriciousness of the Seychelles elite, as well as examining closely the nature and causes of their stranglehold over all aspects of life in the Seychelles under colonial rule.' - African Affairs

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A comprehensive history of the Seychelles, this volume traces its periods of colonisation by France and Britain, the immobile years of the twentieth century, the granting of independence in 1976, and the social changes precipitated by tourism in the late-1990s.

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Connectivity in Motion: Island Hubs in the Indian Ocean World, edited by Burkhard Schnepel and Edward A. Alpers (Palgrave Macmillan, 2018)

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Connectivity in Motion: Island Hubs in the Indian Ocean World, edited by Burkhard Schnepel and Edward A. Alpers (Palgrave Macmillan, 2018)

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Connectivity in Motion - Island Hubs in the Indian Ocean World | Burkhard Schnepel | Palgrave Macmillan

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This original collection brings islands to the fore in a growing body of scholarship on the Indian Ocean, examining them as hubs or points of convergence...

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Robert Louis Stevenson’s Pacific Impressions: Photography and Travel Writing, 1888-1894, by Carla Manfredi (Palgrave Macmillan, 2018)

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Robert Louis Stevenson’s Pacific Impressions: Photography and Travel Writing, 1888-1894, by Carla Manfredi (Palgrave Macmillan, 2018)

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Robert Louis Stevenson's Pacific Impressions - Photography and Travel Writing, 1888-1894 | Carla Manfredi | Palgrave Macmillan

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This book is about Robert Louis Stevenson and the journey that he and his family embarked on when they set sail for the Pacific Islands aboard the Casco in June 1888. This book will reproduce many of Stevenson's photographs alongside discussions about his life, travels, and photography....

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Identity, Language and Belonging on Jersey: Migration and the Channel Islands, by Jaine Beswick (Palgrave Macmillan, 2019)

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Identity, Language and Belonging on Jersey: Migration and the Channel Islands, by Jaine Beswick (Palgrave Macmillan, 2019)

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Identity, Language and Belonging on Jersey - Migration and the Channel Islands | Jaine Beswick | Palgrave Macmillan

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This book examines transnational identities, integration and linguistic practices on Jersey, the Channel Islands. Within the context of major historical events and migratory flows, it considers the significance of the multicultural small island space, and ideologies of identity and belonging....

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World Heritage Conservation in the Pacific: The Case of Solomon Islands, by Stephanie Clair Price (Palgrave Macmillan, 2018)

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World Heritage Conservation in the Pacific: The Case of Solomon Islands, by Stephanie Clair Price (Palgrave Macmillan, 2018)

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World Heritage Conservation in the Pacific - The Case of Solomon Islands | Stephanie Clair Price | Palgrave Macmillan

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​This book explores the challenges of contemporary cultural heritage conservation, the threats facing some sites in Asia Pacific and analyses the implementation and limits of the World Heritage Convention and its legal framework in the Pacific context....

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Liminality of the Japanese Empire: Border Crossings from Okinawa to Colonial Taiwan, by Hiroko Matsuda (U of Hawai'i P, 2018)

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Liminality of the Japanese Empire: Border Crossings from Okinawa to Colonial Taiwan, by Hiroko Matsuda (U of Hawai'i P, 2018)

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Home / Book / Liminality of the Japanese Empire: Border Crossings from Okinawa to Colonial Taiwan

296 pages | 11 b&w illustrations, 4 maps

Okinawa, one of the smallest prefectures of Japan, has drawn much international attention because of the long-standing presence of US bases and the people's resistance against them. In recent years, alternative discourses on Okinawa have emerged due to the territorial disputes over the Senkaku Islands, and the media often characterizes Okinawa as the borderland demarcating Japan, China (PRC), and Taiwan (ROC). While many politicians and opinion makers discuss Okinawa's national and security interests, little attention is paid to the local perspective toward the national border and local residents' historical experiences of border crossings.

Through archival research and first-hand oral histories, Hiroko Matsuda uncovers the stories of common people's move from Okinawa to colonial Taiwan and describes experiences of Okinawans who had made their careers in colonial Taiwan. Formerly the Ryukyu Kingdom and a tributary country of China, Okinawa became the southern national borderland after forceful Japanese annexation in 1879. Then, following Japanese victory in the First Sino-Japanese War and the cession of Taiwan in 1895, Okinawa became the borderland demarcating the Inner Territory from the Outer Territory. The borderland paradoxically created distinction between the two sides, while simultaneously generating interactions across them. Matsuda's analysis of the liminal experiences of Okinawan migrants to colonial Taiwan elucidates both Okinawans' subordinate status in the colonial empire, and their use of the border between the nation and the colony.

Drawing on the oral histories of former immigrants in Taiwan currently living in Okinawa or the Japanese Main Islands, Matsuda debunks the conventional view that Okinawan local history and Japanese imperial history are two separate fields by demonstrating the entanglement of Okinawa's modernity with Japanese colonialism. The first English-language book to use the oral historical materials of former colonial migrants and settlers-most of whom did not experience the Battle of Okinawa- Liminality of the Japanese Empire presents not only the alternative war experiences of Okinawans but also the way in which these colonial memories are narrated in the politics of war memory within the public space of contemporary Okinawa.

Hiroko Matsuda is associate professor at Kobe Gakuin University in Japan.

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Home / Book / Liminality of the Japanese Empire: Border Crossings from Okinawa to Colonial Taiwan 296 pages | 11 b&w illustrations, 4 maps Okinawa, one of the smallest prefectures of Japan, has drawn much international attention because of the long-standing presence of US bases and the people's resistance against them.

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Maritime Ryukyu, 1050–1650, by Gregory Smits (U of Hawai'i P, 2018)

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Maritime Ryukyu, 1050–1650, by Gregory Smits (U of Hawai'i P, 2018)

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Home / Book / Maritime Ryukyu, 1050-1650

Why do Ryukyu's official histories locate the origins of its early dynastic founders in Iheya and Izena, small islands located northwest of Okinawa? Why did the Ming court extend favorable trade terms to Ryukyuan rulers? What was the nature of Okinawa's enigmatic principalities, Sannan, Chūzan, and Hokuzan? When and how did the Ryukyu islands become united under a single ruler? Was this Ryukyuan state an empire, why did it go to war with the powerful Japanese domain of Satsuma in 1609, and what actually happened during that war? Answers to these and other key questions concerning early Ryukyuan history can be found in this bold reappraisal by a leading authority on the subject.

Conventional portrayals of early Ryukyu are based on official histories written between 1650 and 1750. Taking an interdisciplinary approach, Gregory Smits makes extensive use of scholarship in archaeology and anthropology and leverages unconventional sources such as the Omoro sōshi (a collection of ancient songs) to present a fundamental rethinking of early Ryukyu. Instead of treating Ryukyu as a natural, self-contained cultural or political community, he examines it as part of a maritime network extending from coastal Korea to the islands of Tsushima and Iki, along the western shore of Kyushu, and through the Ryukyu Arc to coastal China.

Smits asserts that Ryukyuan culture did not spring from the soil of Okinawa: He highlights Ryukyu's northern roots and the role of wakō (pirate-merchant seafarers) in the formation of power centers throughout the islands, uncovering their close historical connections with the coastal areas of western Japan and Korea. Unlike conventional Ryukyuan histories that open with Okinawa, Maritime Ryukyu starts with the northern island of Kikai, an international crossroads during the eleventh century. It also focuses on other important but often overlooked territories such as the Tokara islands and Kumejima, in addition to bringing the northern and southern Ryukyu islands into a story that all too often centers almost exclusively on Okinawa.

Readers interested in the history of the Ryukyu islands, premodern Japan, and East Asia, as well as maritime history, will welcome this original and persuasive volume.

Gregory Smits is professor of history and Asian studies at Pennsylvania State University.

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Home / Book / Maritime Ryukyu, 1050-1650 Why do Ryukyu's official histories locate the origins of its early dynastic founders in Iheya and Izena, small islands located northwest of Okinawa? Why did the Ming court extend favorable trade terms to Ryukyuan rulers? What was the nature of Okinawa's enigmatic principalities, Sannan, Chūzan, and Hokuzan?

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Coral and Concrete: Remembering Kwajalein Atoll between Japan, America, and the Marshall Islands, by Greg Dvorak (U of Hawai'i P, 2018)

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Coral and Concrete: Remembering Kwajalein Atoll between Japan, America, and the Marshall Islands, by Greg Dvorak (U of Hawai'i P, 2018)

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Home / Book / Coral and Concrete: Remembering Kwajalein Atoll between Japan, America, and the Marshall Islands

384 pages | 51 b&w illustrations, 3 maps

Coral and Concrete, Greg Dvorak's cross-cultural history of Kwajalein Atoll, Marshall Islands, explores intersections of environment, identity, empire, and memory in the largest inhabited coral atoll on earth. Approaching the multiple "atollscapes" of Kwajalein's past and present as Marshallese ancestral land, Japanese colonial outpost, Pacific War battlefield, American weapons-testing base, and an enduring home for many, Dvorak delves into personal narratives and collective mythologies from contradictory vantage points. He navigates the tensions between "little stories" of ordinary human actors and "big stories" of global politics-drawing upon the "little" metaphor of the coral organisms that colonize and build atolls, and the "big" metaphor of the all-encompassing concrete that buries and co-opts the past.

Building upon the growing body of literature about militarism and decolonization in Oceania, this book advocates a layered, nuanced approach that emphasizes the multiplicity and contradictions of Pacific Islands histories as an antidote to American hegemony and globalization within and beyond the region. It also brings Japanese, Korean, Okinawan, and American perspectives into conversation with Micronesians' recollections of colonialism and war. This transnational history-built upon a combination of reflective personal narrative, ethnography, cultural studies, and postcolonial studies-thus resituates Kwajalein Atoll as a pivotal site where Islanders have not only thrived for thousands of years, but also mediated between East and West, shaping crucial world events.

Based on multi-sited ethnographic and archival research, as well as Dvorak's own experiences growing up between Kwajalein, the United States, and Japan, Coral and Concrete integrates narrative and imagery with semiotic analysis of photographs, maps, films, and music, traversing colonial tropical fantasies, tales of victory and defeat, missile testing, fisheries, war-bereavement rituals, and landowner resistance movements, from the twentieth century through the present day. Representing history as a perennial struggle between coral and concrete, the book offers an Oceanian paradigm for decolonization, resistance, solidarity, and optimism that should appeal to all readers far beyond the Marshall Islands.

Greg Dvorak is associate professor at Waseda University in Tokyo, specializing in Pacific/Asian cultural studies and history.

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Home / Book / Coral and Concrete: Remembering Kwajalein Atoll between Japan, America, and the Marshall Islands 384 pages | 51 b&w illustrations, 3 maps Coral and Concrete, Greg Dvorak's cross-cultural history of Kwajalein Atoll, Marshall Islands, explores intersections of environment, identity, empire, and memory in the largest inhabited coral atoll on earth.

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The Cambridge Companion to 'Robinson Crusoe', edited by John Richetti (Cambridge UP, 2018)

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The Cambridge Companion to 'Robinson Crusoe', edited by John Richetti (Cambridge UP, 2018)

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The Cambridge Companion to 'Robinson Crusoe' edited by John Richetti

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Cambridge Core - English Literature 1700-1830 - The Cambridge Companion to 'Robinson Crusoe' - edited by John Richetti

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The Pretender of Pitcairn Island:Joshua W. Hill – The Man Who Would Be King Among the Bounty Mutineers, by Tillman W. Nechtman (Cambridge UP, 2018)

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The Pretender of Pitcairn Island:Joshua W. Hill – The Man Who Would Be King Among the Bounty Mutineers, by Tillman W. Nechtman (Cambridge UP, 2018)

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Pretender pitcairn island joshua w hill man who would be king among bounty mutineers | Global history

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Advance praise: 'Nechtman's The Pretender of Pitcairn Island intrigues, instructs, and entertains. It is at once an energetic dialogue with many generations of Pacific scholars, a detailed meditation on British colonialism and Oceanian histories, and a feat of literary storytelling with 'Man Who Would Be King' resonances, populated by colorful, tragic, and terrifying characters.'

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Truth and Reconciliation Commission Processes: Learning from the Solomon Islands, by Karen Brounéus (Rowman & Littlefield, 2018)

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Truth and Reconciliation Commission Processes: Learning from the Solomon Islands, by Karen Brounéus (Rowman & Littlefield, 2018)

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Heritage and Memory of War: Responses from Small Islands, edited by Gilly Carr and Keir Reeves (Routledge, 2018)

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Heritage and Memory of War: Responses from Small Islands, edited by Gilly Carr and Keir Reeves (Routledge, 2018)

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Heritage and Memory of War: Responses from Small Islands (Paperback) - Routledge

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Every large nation in the world was directly or indirectly affected by the impact of war during the course of the twentieth century, and while the historical narratives of war of these nations are well known, far less is understood about how small...

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Demilitarization and International Law in Context: The Åland Islands, by Sia Spiliopoulou Åkermark, Saila Heinikoski, Pirjo Kleemola-Juntunen (Routledge, 2018)

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Demilitarization and International Law in Context: The Åland Islands, by Sia Spiliopoulou Åkermark, Saila Heinikoski, Pirjo Kleemola-Juntunen (Routledge, 2018)

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Demilitarization and International Law in Context: The Åland Islands (Hardback) - Routledge

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The demilitarisation and neutralisation of the Åland Islands is a confirmation of, and an exception to, the collective security system in present-day international affairs. Its core idea is that there is no need for military presence in the...

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Caribbean Island Movements: Culebra's Trans-insularities, by Carlo A. Cubero (Rowman and Littelfield 2017)

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Caribbean Island Movements: Culebra's Trans-insularities, by Carlo A. Cubero (Rowman and Littelfield 2017)

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An ethnographic account of how the islanders of the Caribbean island of Culebra reproduce a sense of unique insular identity, while engaged in continuous practices of regional and global movements.

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From the Lighthouse: Interdisciplinary Reflections on Light, edited by Veronica Strang, Tim Edensor, Joanna Puckering (Routledge, 2018)

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From the Lighthouse: Interdisciplinary Reflections on Light, edited by Veronica Strang, Tim Edensor, Joanna Puckering (Routledge, 2018)

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From the Lighthouse: Interdisciplinary Reflections on Light (Hardback) - Routledge

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What is a lighthouse? What does it mean? What does it do? This book shows how exchanging knowledge across disciplinary boundaries can transform our thinking. Adopting an unconventional structure, this book involves the reader in a multivocal conversation...

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The Vulnerable Andaman and Nicobar Islands: A Study of Disasters and Response, by Poonam Tripathi (Routledge, 2018)

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The Vulnerable Andaman and Nicobar Islands: A Study of Disasters and Response, by Poonam Tripathi (Routledge, 2018)

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The Vulnerable Andaman and Nicobar Islands: A Study of Disasters and Response (Hardback) - Routledge

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This first full-length book addresses disasters in the context of vulnerability of the Andaman and Nicobar Islands that comprise 572 islands in the Bay of Bengal. It looks at the disasters that the islands have experienced in the last 200 years and...

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Three Mile Island: The Meltdown Crisis and Nuclear Power in American Popular Culture, by Grace Halden (Routledge, 2017)

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Three Mile Island: The Meltdown Crisis and Nuclear Power in American Popular Culture, by Grace Halden (Routledge, 2017)

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Three Mile Island: The Meltdown Crisis and Nuclear Power in American Popular Culture (Paperback) - Routledge

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Three Mile Island explains the far-reaching consequences of the partial meltdown of Pennsylvania's Three Mile Island power plant on March 28, 1979. Though the disaster was ultimately contained, the fears it triggered had an immediate and lasting...

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Into the Heart of Tasmania, A Search for Human Antiquity, by Rebe Taylor (Melbourne UP, 2017)

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Into the Heart of Tasmania, A Search for Human Antiquity, by Rebe Taylor (Melbourne UP, 2017)

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In 1908 English gentleman, Ernest Westlake, packed a tent, a bicycle and forty tins of food and sailed to Tasmania. On mountains, beaches and in sheep paddocks he collected over 13,000 Aboriginal stone tools. Westlake believed he had found the remnants of an extinct race whose culture was akin to the most ancient Stone Age Europeans.

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Vandemonian War: The Secret History of Britain’s Tasmanian Invasion, by Nick Brodie (Hardie Grant, 2017)

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Vandemonian War: The Secret History of Britain’s Tasmanian Invasion, by Nick Brodie (Hardie Grant, 2017)

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Britain formally colonised Van Diemen's Land in the early years of the nineteenth century. Small convict stations grew into towns. Pastoralists moved in to the aboriginal hunting grounds. There was conflict, there was violence. But, governments and gentlemen succeeded in burying the real story of the Vandemonian War for nearly two centuries.

The Vandemonian War had many sides and shades, but it was fundamentally a war between the British colony of Van Diemen's Land (Tasmania) and the Aboriginal people who lived in political and social contradiction to that colony.The Vandemonian War tells the largely untold story of how the British truly occupied Van Diemen's Land deploying regimental soldiers and special forces, armed convicts and mercenaries.

In the 1820s and 1830s the British deliberately pushed the Aboriginals out, driving them to the edge of existence. Far from localised fights between farmers and hunters of popular memory, this was a war of sweeping campaigns and brutal tactics, waged by military and paramilitary forces subject to a Lieutenant Governor who was also Colonel Commanding. The British won the Vandemonian War and then discretely and purposefully concealed it.

Historians failed to see through the myths and lies - until now. It is no exaggeration to say that the tribes of Van Diemen's Land were extirpated from the island. Whole societies were deliberately obliterated. This is ground breaking story, discovered in neglected handwriting nearly two centuries old, that redraws what we know about our history. The Vandemonian War is a dark stain on a former empire.
Nick Brodie on The Vandemonian War:
"If I had to identify a single moment, I'd say The Vandemonian War grew from a bit of archival lateral-thinking. I was sitting in the Tasmanian Archives and Heritage Office, wondering about the numerical coding pencilled on old documents I was reading. I knew what the numbers were - a filing system for inbound and outbound correspondence - but I also knew that none of the previous histories had ever mentioned them, or ever referred to the outbound series. I decided to find them, did, and this changed everything. The smaller book I had originally envisioned became a much bigger re-writing of the whole story, simply because the established history of frontier conflict in Van Diemen's Land was utterly wrong.

I found myself staring at the command-and-control structure of the colonial government. Colonial officials minutely orchestrated and documented a war against the Aboriginal peoples of Van Diemen's Land. With regiments of soldiers, paramilitary forces and mercenaries the colonial government deliberately harassed the Aboriginal people of Tasmania to the edge of extinction. Moreover, the Lieutenant Governor knew what he was doing and knew what effect it had. As I got into the detail of the archive, I could also see how the colonial government covered it up. They had committed genocide and gotten away with it.

The Vandemonian War is an answer to posterity's forgetfulness. This is the story of the war fought between the British Empire and the Aboriginal peoples of Van Diemen's Land as never told before. We follow the soldiers and convicts into the field, get to know Aboriginal guides and the politics of inter-Tribal relations, and see a famously 'humane' Lieutenant Governor directing it all."

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Britain formally colonised Van Diemen's Land in the early years of the nineteenth century. Small convict stations grew into towns. Pastoralists moved in to the aboriginal hunting grounds. There was conflict, there was violence. But, governments and gentlemen succeeded in burying the real story of the Vandemonian War for nearly two centuries.

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Re-Reading Education Policy and Practice in Small States: Issues of Size and Scale in the Emerging "Intelligent Society and Economy", by Tavis D. Jules and Patrick Ressler (Peter Lang, 2017)

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Re-Reading Education Policy and Practice in Small States: Issues of Size and Scale in the Emerging "Intelligent Society and Economy", by Tavis D. Jules and Patrick Ressler (Peter Lang, 2017)

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Travel and Tourism in the Caribbean: Challenges and Opportunities for Small Island Developing States, by Andrew Spencer (Springer, 2019)

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Travel and Tourism in the Caribbean: Challenges and Opportunities for Small Island Developing States, by Andrew Spencer (Springer, 2019)

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Travel and Tourism in the Caribbean - Challenges and | Andrew Spencer | Springer

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This book explores the distinct nuisances and obstacles that are brought on by the tourism and travel industry within the Caribbean ...

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Indian Ocean Islands: Illustrated Cases on Geopolitics, Ocean and Environment, edited by Christian Bouchard, Shafick Osman (Routledge, 2018)

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Indian Ocean Islands: Illustrated Cases on Geopolitics, Ocean and Environment, edited by Christian Bouchard, Shafick Osman (Routledge, 2018)

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Indian Ocean Islands: Illustrated Cases on Geopolitics, Ocean and Environment (Hardback) - Routledge

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Islands are intrinsic parts of the Indian Ocean Region's physical geography and human landscape. Historically, many have played substantial roles in the regional cultural and economic networks, as well as in the regional political developments...

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Barrier Dynamics and Response to Changing Climate, edited by Laura J. Moore and A. Brad Murray (Springer, 2018)

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Barrier Dynamics and Response to Changing Climate, edited by Laura J. Moore and A. Brad Murray (Springer, 2018)

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Barrier Dynamics and Response to Changing Climate | Laura J. Moore | Springer

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This edited volume provides observations on barrier responses to climate change, and assesses the vulnerabilities of barriers for future conditions. ...

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Island Compliance Risk and the Protocol of Global Finance: Governing Evil Money, by Kirk Harrison Taitt (Routledge, 2018)

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Island Compliance Risk and the Protocol of Global Finance: Governing Evil Money, by Kirk Harrison Taitt (Routledge, 2018)

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Island Compliance Risk and the Protocol of Global Finance: Governing Evil Money (Hardback) - Routledge

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Kirk Harrison Taitt examines the threat money laundering and terrorist financing pose to Caribbean island nations involved in international financial services, the role of compliance regimes in averting sanctions and the future of these nations at the...

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Erotic Islands: Art and Activism in the Queer Caribbean (Duke UP, 2018)

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Erotic Islands: Art and Activism in the Queer Caribbean (Duke UP, 2018)

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Arctic Ice Shelves and Ice Islands, edited by Luke Copland and Derek Mueller (Springer, 2017)

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Arctic Ice Shelves and Ice Islands, edited by Luke Copland and Derek Mueller (Springer, 2017)

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Arctic Ice Shelves and Ice Islands | Luke Copland | Springer

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First dedicated book on Arctic Ice Shelves and Ice Islands Most up-to-date knowledge of the distribution and characteristics of Arctic ice shelves...