The people trade : Pacific Island laborers and New Caledonia, 1865-1930 /
The story of the people from the New Hebrides (Vanuatu) and the Solomon Islands who left their homes to work in the French colony of New Caledonia has long remained a missing piece of Pacific Islands history. Now Dorothy Shineberg has brought these laboreres to life by painstakingly assembling fragm...
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| Format: | eBook Electronic |
| Language: | English |
| Imprint: | Honolulu : Center for Pacific Islands Studies, School of Hawaiian, Asian, and Pacific Studies, University of Hawai'i : University of Hawai'i Press, ©1999. |
| Series: | Pacific islands monograph series ;
no. 16. |
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| Online Access: | Click here for full text at JSTOR |
Table of Contents:
- pt. 1. Recruiting for New Caledonia. 1. The Pacific Island Labor Trade and New Caledonia. 2. The Colony Established. 3. Entrepreneurial Recruiting in the 1870s. 4. The Kidnapping Inquiries and the Suspension of the Labor Trade, 1880-1882. 5. Settlers Triumphant: The Labor Trade Revived. 6. The New Century
- pt. 2. Profile of Recruits. 7. Men and Motives. 8. The Women. 9. The Children
- pt. 3. At the Workplace. 10. Work in New Caledonia. 11. Living and Working in New Caledonia: By Law or Custom? 12. "Perpetual Theft" 13. Sickness and Death. 14. "Hebrideans" in Colonial Society. 15. Life after Indenture. 16. "Nothing More Convenient."