TY - BOOK ID - 138075252 TI - Oceania : A Regional Study AU - Cooke, Melinda W. AU - Bunge, Frederica M. PY - 1984 PB - Washington, D.C. : U.S. G.P.O., DB - UniCat KW - Travel. KW - Islands of the Pacific. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:138075252 AB - The opening and closing chapters of this study pertain to the region as a whole--the first giving a broad cultural and historical overview of Oceania and the last treating the region from a strategic perspective. The three intervening chapters deal with geographical, historical, social, economic, political, and security aspects of particular contemporary societies. Areas covered are: Melanesia--Fiji, New Caledonia, Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands, and Vanuatu; Micronesia--Guam, Kiribati, Nauru, and Trust Territory of the Pacific Island; and Polynesia--American Samoa, Cook Islands, Easter Island, French Polynesia, Niue, Pitcairn Islands, Toielau, Tonga, Tuvalu, Wallis and Futuna, and Western Samoa. ER -