TY - BOOK AU - Bennett,Judith A. TI - Wealth of the Solomons: A History of a Pacific Archipelago, 1800-1978 SN - 9780824850722 AV - DU850 .B46 1987eb U1 - 993/.5 19 PY - 2023///] CY - Honolulu : PB - University of Hawaii Press, KW - HISTORY / Oceania KW - bisacsh N1 - Frontmatter --; EDITOR'S NOTE --; CONTENTS --; FIGURES --; PHOTOS --; TABLES --; PREFACE --; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS --; MEASUREMENTS AND SPELLING --; CHAPTER 1 The Solomon Islands in 1800 --; CHAPTER 2 The ship men (c. 1800-1860) --; CHAPTER 3 The traders and their masters (c. 1860-1900) --; CHAPTER 4 The attractions of trade (c. 1860-1900) --; CHAPTER 5 The colonial government and pacification (c. 1896-1920) --; CHAPTER 6 The colonial government and land alienation (c. 1900-1920) --; CHAPTER 7 The colonial government and labor (c. 1900-1930)167 --; CHAPTER 8 The plantation (c. 1900-1930) --; CHAPTER 9 Producers and consumers (c. 1900-1930) --; CHAPTER 10 Weathering the storm (c. 1930-1942) --; CHAPTER 11 A rumor of utopia: The western and central Solomons (c. 1930-1942) --; CHAPTER 12 More rumors: The eastern Solomons (c. 1930-1942) --; CHAPTER 13 World War II and aftermath (c. 1942-1955) --; CHAPTER 14 Independence: Coming, ready or not! (1955-1978) --; Epilogue --; APPENDIXES --; APPENDIX 1 Whaling contacts and sightings, c. 1800-1890 --; APPENDIX 2 Castaways, deserters, and runaway convicts in the Solomon Islands, c. 1820-1870 --; APPENDIX 3 Items of trade, where mentioned, of whaling ships and other non-trading vessels, 1798-1860 --; APPENDIX 4 Exports and shipping from Solomon Islands to port of Sydney, c. 1854-1896 --; APPENDIX 5 Location of resident traders and non-Melanesian staff, c. 1860-1900 --; APPENDIX 6 Violent conflicts between Solomon Islanders and Europeans engaged in trading, c. 1860-1896 --; APPENDIX 7 Resident commissioners and district officers before World War II, by districts --; APPENDIX 8 Petitions to Resident Commissioner, 1912 --; ABBREVIATIONS --; NOTES --; BIBLIOGRAPHY --; INFORMANTS --; GENERAL INDEX --; INDEX OF SHIPS; restricted access UR - https://doi.org/10.1515/9780824850722 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780824850722 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780824850722/original ER -