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New Guinea: Crossing Boundaries and History.(Book Review)
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The Contemporary Pacific
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September 22, 2005
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New Guinea: Crossing Boundaries and History, by Clive Moore. Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, 2003. ISBN 0-8248-2485-7; xiv + 274 pages, figures, maps, photographs, notes, bibliography, index. Cloth, US$50.00.
In this well-organized and carefully researched book, Clive Moore surveys the history of the entire island of New Guinea. In eight chapters and an introduction, supported by an impressive 636-item bibliography, Moore, reader in history and head of the history department at University of Queensland, Australia, presents a "big picture" of a region that has often been portrayed in fragmented terms: whole books about half an island, or about only one of a thousand ...