Possessing the Pacific : land, settlers, and indigenous people from Australia to Alaska

Resource Information

The work Possessing the Pacific : land, settlers, and indigenous people from Australia to Alaska represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in University of Liverpool. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Language Material, Books.

Label

Possessing the Pacific : land, settlers, and indigenous people from Australia to Alaska

Title remainder

land, settlers, and indigenous people from Australia to Alaska

Statement of responsibility

Stuart Banner

Creator

• Banner, Stuart, 1963-
• Banner, Stuart, 1963-

Subject

• Land settlement -- Northwest, Pacific -- History
• Land settlement -- Oceania -- History
• Northwest, Pacific -- Colonization | History
• Northwest, Pacific -- Race relations
• Oceania -- Colonization | History
• Oceania -- Race relations
• Indigenous peoples -- Land tenure -- Northwest, Pacific -- History
• Indigenous peoples -- Land tenure -- Oceania -- History
• Indigenous peoples -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- Northwest, Pacific -- History
• Indigenous peoples -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- Oceania -- History

Language

eng

Summary

Tells the story of colonial settlement in Australia, New Zealand, Fiji, Tonga, Hawaii, California, Oregon, Washington, British Columbia and Alaska, and how the settlers acquired vast amounts of land from the indigenous people. This acquisition still shapes the relations between whites and indigenous people in most of the world

Cataloging source

DLC

Illustrations

• illustrations
• maps

Index

index present

Literary form

non fiction