This book is a study of New Zealand shaking off its quasi-colonial dependence on Britain. Has New Zealand moved beyond its colonial heritage? Is it now time to remove the Union Jack from the national flag and change to a Republic? Hall analyses the three decades after World War II when changes...

"Not in Narrow Seas is a major contribution to the history of Aotearoa New Zealand. It covers everything from the traditional gift-based Maori economy to the Ardern government's attempt to deal with the economic challenges of global warming, and is the first economic history to underline the...

"In the century from the death of Captain James Cook in 1779 to the rise of the sugar plantations in the 1870s, thousands of Kanaka Maoli (Native Hawaiian) men left Hawai'i to work on ships at sea and in na 'aina 'e (foreign lands)--in California, the Arctic Ocean, the equatorial islands, and...

The short history of humans in Hawai'i -- Voyaging and settlement -- The rise of competing Hawaiian states -- Guns, germs, and sandalwood -- Globalization and the emergence of a mature natural state -- Treaties, powerful elites, and the overthrow -- Colonial political economy: Hawai'i as a U.S....

Statistiken zur Entwicklung der Bevölkerung, des Transport- und Kommunikationswesens, der Industrie, Landwirtschaft, Beschäftigung und Staatshaushalte, des Außenhandels, Bildungswesens und Klimas in den einzelnen Ländern. (SWP/DÜI)