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Title: The People Trade: Pacific Island Laborers and New Caledonia, 1865-1930. (Book Reviews).
Author: Jacqueline Leckie
Publication: The Contemporary Pacific (Refereed)
Date: March 22, 2002
Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
Volume: 14 Issue: 1 Page: 253(2)Article Type: Book ReviewDistributed by Thompson Gale
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The People Trade: Pacific Island Laborers and New Caledonia, 1865-1930, by Dorothy Shineberg. Pacific Islands Monograph Series 16. Honolulu: Center for Pacific Islands Studies and University of Hawai i Press, 1999. ISBN 0-8248-2101-7; xxiii + 309 pages, tables, figures, photos, maps, appendix, notes, references, index, US$45. In 1967 Dorothy Shineberg's They Came for Sandalwood: A Study of the Sandalwood Trade in the South Pacific, 1830-1865 marked one of the earliest academic publications in Pacific labor history. It became a foundational text on Pacific labor and more generally within Pacific historiography. Over thirty years later, Shineberg has again significantly contributed to the advance of Pacific labor history with this richly detailed study of Oceanian migrant laborers in New Caledonia...
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