Book reviews

• Published in: The Journal of Pacific history 1980, Vol.15 (4), p.235-248
• Main Authors: Gunson, W. N., Howe, K. R., Lacey, Roderic, Tinker, Hugh, Finney, Ben, Macdonald, Barrie, Jupp, James, Hempenstall, Peter J., Beckett, Jeremy, Thornley, A. W.
• Format: Review
• Language: English
• ISSN: 0022-3344; 1469-9605
• DOI: 10.1080/00223348008572407

Samuel Marsden. The Great Survivor. By A. T. YARWOOD. Melbourne. Melbourne University Press, 1977. XVI, 341 pp. $A18.60. Pacific Islanders Under German Rule. A Study in the Meaning of Colonial Resistance. By PETER J. HEMPENSTALL. Canberra, Australian National University Press, 1978. xii, 264 pp, index, bibliog. $A19.50. Kiribati: Aspects of History (Taraan Karakin: Kiribati). By ALAIMA TALU and others. Tarawa, Ministry of Education, Training and Culture, 1979. xviii, 212 pp. $F4.00 hardcover; $F3.00 paperback. Rama's Banishment: a centenary tribute to the Fiji Indians 1879-1979. Edited by VIJAY MISHRA. Auckland, Heinemann Education Books (NZ). viii, 144 pp. $NZ9.95. 'Artificial Curiosities'. By ADRIENNE L. KAEPPLER. Special Publication 65. Honolulu, Bishop Museum Press, 1978. xvi, 294 pp, 626 illus. $US27.50. Cook Voyage Artifacts in Leningrad, Berne and Florence Museums. By ADRIENNE L. KAEPPLER. Special Publication 66. Honolulu, Bishop Museum Press, 1978. 186 pp, 260 illus. $US15.00. Symbols of Sovereignty: feather girdles of Tahiti and Hawaii. By ROGER C. ROSE. Pacific Anthropological Records No. 28. Hololulu, Bishop Museum Press, 1978. viii, 69 pp. $US6.00. Australia, New Zealand, and the Pacific Islands since the First World War. Edited by WILLIAM S. LIVINGSTON and WM ROGER LOUIS. Austin & London, University of Texas Press, 1979. x, 249 pp, index. Canberra, Australian National University Press. $A19.50. The Constitution of Papua New Guinea. By JOHN GOLDRING. Sydney, The Law Book Company, 1978. xxxvii, 281 pp, table of cases and organic laws, bibliography. $A8.50. Papua New Guinea Portraits: The Expatriate Experience. Edited by JAMES GRIFFIN. Canberra, Australian National University Press, 1978. xxxi, 269 pp. $A18.50 (cloth), $A9.95 (paper). Islanders and Aborigines at Cape York: An ethnographic reconstruction based on the 1848-1850 'Rattlesnake' Journals of O. W. Brierly and information he obtained from Barbara Thompson. By DAVID R. MOORE. Canberra, Australian Institute of Aboriginal Studies, 1979. xii, 340 pp, index, bibliog. $A14.95 (cloth), $A9.95 (paper). Overseas Missions of the Australian Methodist Church. Vol. II, Fiji; Vol. III, Fiji-Indian and Rotuma. By A. HAROLD WOOD. Melbourne, Aldersgate Press, 1978. viii, 410 pp, app., bibliog., index, $A19.50; viii, 146 pp, app., bibliog., index, $A9.60.