Paradise past : the transformation of the South Pacific, 1520-1920
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. The coming of westerners, as this book points out, was not entirely negative, as head-hunting, cannibalism, chronic warfare, human sacrifice, and other practices were diminished--but whole cultures were irreversibly changed or even eradicated
eBook, English, [2012]
McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, Jefferson, North Carolina, [2012]