When Women Ruled the Pacific: Power and Politics in Nineteenth-Century Tahiti and Hawai‘i 1496231805, 9781496231802

Throughout the nineteenth century British and American imperialists advanced into the Pacific, with catastrophic effects

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When Women Ruled the Pacific: Power and Politics in Nineteenth-Century Tahiti and Hawai‘i
1496231805, 9781496231802

Giants ruled the earth thousands of years ago. The evidence is astounding. Here it is. Around the world we find evidence

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