pacific islands monograph series list

1. The First Taint of Civilization: A History of the Caroline and Marshall Islands in Pre-Colonial Days, 1521–1885, by Francis X Hezel, SJ (1983).
2. Where the Waves Fall: A New South Sea Islands History from First Settlement to Colonial Rule, by K R Howe (1984), UH Press edition out of print. Copublished with Allen & Unwin, Sydney.
3. Wealth of the Solomons: A History of a Pacific Archipelago, 1800–1978, by Judith A Bennett (1987).
4. Nan’yō: The Rise and Fall of the Japanese in Micronesia, 1885–1945, by Mark R Peattie (1988).
5. Upon a Stone Altar: A History of the Island of Pohnpei to 1890, by David Hanlon (1988), out of print.
6. Missionary Lives: Papua, 1874–1914, by Diane Langmore (1989), out of print.
7. Tungaru Traditions: Writings on the Atoll Culture of the Gilbert Islands, by Arthur F Grimble, edited by H E Maude (1989). Copublished with Melbourne University Press.
8. The Pacific Theater: Island Representations of World War II, edited by Geoffrey M White and Lamont Lindstrom (1989). Copublished with Melbourne University Press.
9. Bellona Island Beliefs and Rituals, by Torben Monberg (1991).
10. Not the Way It Really Was: Constructing the Tolai Past, by Klaus Neumann (1992).
11. Broken Waves: A History of the Fiji Islands in the Twentieth Century, by Brij V Lal (1992).
12. Woven Gods: Female Clowns and Power in Rotuma, by Vilsoni Hereniko (1995).
13. Strangers in Their Own Land: A Century of Colonial Rule in the Caroline and Marshall Islands, by Francix X Hezel, SJ (1995 [cloth] out of print; reissued [paper] 2003).
14. Guardians of Marovo Lagoon: Practice, Place, and Politics in Maritime Melanesia, by Edvard Hviding (1996).
15. My Gun, My Brother: The World of the Papua New Guinea Colonial Police, 1920–1960, by August I K Kituai (1998).
16. The People Trade: Pacific Island Laborers and New Caledonia, 1865–1930, by Dorothy Shineberg (1998).
17. Law and Order in a Weak State: Crime and Politics in Papua New Guinea, by Sinclair Dinnen (2000).
18. An Honorable Accord: The Covenant between the Northern Mariana Islands and the United States, by Howard P Willens and Deanne C Siemer (2001).
19. Colonial Dis-Ease: US Navy and Health Policies and the Chamorros of Guam, 1898–1941, by Anne Perez Hattori (2004).
20. Imagining the Other: The Representation of the Papua New Guinean Subject, by Regis Tove Stella (March 2007).
21. Songs from the Second Float: A Musical Ethnography of Takū Atoll, Papua New Guinea, by Richard Moyle (July 2007).
22. The Other Side: Ways of Being and Place in Vanuatu, by John Patrick Taylor (July 2008)
23. Jean-Marie Tjibaou, Kanak Witness to the World: An Intellectual Biography, by Eric Waddell (September 2008)
24. Repositioning the Missionary: Rewriting the Histories of Colonialism, Native Catholicism, and Indigeneity in Guam, by Vicente M Diaz (July 2010)
25. Cultures of Commemoration: The Politics of War, Memory, and History in the Mariana Islands, by Keith L Camacho (February 2011)
26. Colonialism, Maasina Rule, and the Origins of Malaitan Kastom, by David Akin (forthcoming)
27. The Kanak Awakening: The Rise of Nationalism in New Caledonia, by David Chappell (forthcoming)

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