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The Pacific Islands: Environment and Society.(Review)
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The Contemporary Pacific
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September 22, 2000
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Copyright informationCOPYRIGHT 2000 University of Hawaii Press. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)
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The Pacific Islands: Environment and Society, edited by Moshe Rapaport. Honolulu: Bess Press, 1999. ISBN 1-57306-083-6, cloth; 1-57306-042-9, paper; vi + 442 pages, maps, photographs, tables, notes, bibliography, index, and Island Gazetteer. Cloth, US$49.95; paper, US$39.95.
Humboldt tried to write, in several volumes, about the entire cosmos, but since the late nineteenth century geographers have learned to be more circumspect and have confined their efforts to single regions. However, there comes a time when even the classic regions of nineteenth-century geography can no longer be covered properly by a single author, and the Pacific Islands may now have entered this ...
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