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The Southwest Pacific to 1900; a modern history: Australia, New Zealand, the islands, Antarctica
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- Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, [1963]
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- 558 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
- OCLC
- ocm00244084
- Includes bibliography.
- The area disclosed: the explorers -- The British foothold -- Search for a viable economy -- Toward continental occupation (1) -- Toward continental occupation (2) -- The pastoral economy -- A struggle for free government -- A transit of civilization -- New Zealand in Polynesia -- Toward British sovereignty in New Zealand -- The islands as no man's lands -- The islands enter world politics -- Quest into Antarctica -- The gold rush decade -- A new economic pattern -- A congeries of colonies -- Toward a continental commonwealth -- The Pakehas take New Zealand -- War and gold -- Progress and poverty -- King Dick's realm -- The partitioning of the islands (1) -- The partitioning of the islands (2) -- Era of limited interest