First [and Second] Missionary Voyage[s] to the South-Sea

First [and Second] Missionary Voyage[s] to the South-Sea
Title First [and Second] Missionary Voyage[s] to the South-Sea PDF eBook
Author William Wilson
Publisher
Pages 398
Release 1805
Genre Missions
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The Growth and Collapse of Pacific Island Societies

The Growth and Collapse of Pacific Island Societies
Title The Growth and Collapse of Pacific Island Societies PDF eBook
Author Patrick Vinton Kirch
Publisher University of Hawaii Press
Pages 409
Release 2007-04-30
Genre Social Science
ISBN 082486476X

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Were there major population collapses on Pacific Islands following first contact with the West? If so, what were the actual population numbers for islands such as Hawai‘i, Tahiti, or New Caledonia? Is it possible to develop new methods for tracking the long-term histories of island populations? These and related questions are at the heart of this new book, which draws together cutting-edge research by archaeologists, ethnographers, and demographers. In their accounts of exploration, early European voyagers in the Pacific frequently described the teeming populations they encountered on island after island. Yet missionary censuses and later nineteenth-century records often indicate much smaller populations on Pacific Islands, leading many scholars to debunk the explorers’ figures as romantic exaggerations. Recently, the debate over the indigenous populations of the Pacific has intensified, and this book addresses the problem from new perspectives. Rather than rehash old data and arguments about the validity of explorers’ or missionaries’ accounts, the contributors to this volume offer a series of case studies grounded in new empirical data derived from original archaeological fieldwork and from archival historical research. Case studies are presented for the Hawaiian Islands, Mo‘orea, the Marquesas, Tonga, Samoa, the Tokelau Islands, New Caledonia, Aneityum (Vanuatu), and Kosrae.

Supplement to the Catalogue for the Public Library of New South Wales, Sydney, Reference Department

Supplement to the Catalogue for the Public Library of New South Wales, Sydney, Reference Department
Title Supplement to the Catalogue for the Public Library of New South Wales, Sydney, Reference Department PDF eBook
Author Public Library of New South Wales. Reference Dept
Publisher
Pages 324
Release 1897
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Catalogue of the Free Public Library, Sydney

Catalogue of the Free Public Library, Sydney
Title Catalogue of the Free Public Library, Sydney PDF eBook
Author New South Wales. Library
Publisher
Pages 328
Release 1897
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The History of the Tahitian Mission, 1799-1830, Written by John Davies, Missionary to the South Sea Islands

The History of the Tahitian Mission, 1799-1830, Written by John Davies, Missionary to the South Sea Islands
Title The History of the Tahitian Mission, 1799-1830, Written by John Davies, Missionary to the South Sea Islands PDF eBook
Author C.W. Newbury
Publisher Taylor & Francis
Pages 275
Release 2017-05-15
Genre History
ISBN 1317028716

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In the wake of the navigators who finally opened up the Pacific came missionaries, traders and finally administrators. In the early decades of the 19th century Polynesia was a rich field for the curious and the calculating, for writers and adventurers. The pioneer European settlers in Eastern Polynesia were ministers and mechanics sent out on the crest of an Evangelical wave the merged with the currents and eddies of trade and whaling to break down the isolation of the islands and their inhabitants. Among the pioneers was Welshman John Davies (1772-1855) who spent just over 50 years of his life on Tahiti and neighbouring islands. He witnessed the rise of the Pomare dynasty, conversion to Christianity, reaction to attempts at theocratic government, and the gradual encroachment of alien commerce and European rule. His colleagues have made their contribution to the history and anthropology of Polynesia. Davies himself, teacher, linguist and careful observer, wrote his own story of the Mission, its personalities and their contact with the Polynesians, from the early phase of disillusionment through three decades of political and economic change, destruction and reconstruction. From this contact there emerged the uneasy compromise of missionary and indigenous beliefs and institutions that characterized Tahiti and its neighbours before and after the advent of French administration. Davies's manuscript History is here edited and annotated, supplemented by the writings of other missionaries and presented as a contribution to the literature of the Pacific. This is a new print-on-demand hardback edition of the volume first published in 1961.

The Dayspring

The Dayspring
Title The Dayspring PDF eBook
Author
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Pages 300
Release 1872
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The Acts of the Apostles

The Acts of the Apostles
Title The Acts of the Apostles PDF eBook
Author P.D. James
Publisher Canongate Books
Pages 93
Release 1999-01-01
Genre Bibles
ISBN 0857861077

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Acts is the sequel to Luke's gospel and tells the story of Jesus's followers during the 30 years after his death. It describes how the 12 apostles, formerly Jesus's disciples, spread the message of Christianity throughout the Mediterranean against a background of persecution. With an introduction by P.D. James