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Journeys Towards Progress: Essays of a Geographer on Development and Change in Oceania
Paperback / softback
Main Details
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Journeys Towards Progress: Essays of a Geographer on Development and Change in Oceania
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| Authors and Contributors |
By (author) Ray Watters
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| Physical Properties |
| Format:Paperback / softback | | Pages:400 |
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| Category/Genre | Regional geography |
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| ISBN/Barcode |
9780864735966
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| Classifications | Dewey:330.995 |
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| Audience | | General | | Professional & Vocational | |
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Publishing Details |
| Publisher |
Te Herenga Waka University Press
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| Imprint |
Victoria University Press
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| Publication Date |
12 May 2008 |
| Publication Country |
New Zealand
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Description
Journeys Towards Progress is both a valuable study of the emerging world of 20th-century Oceania and the Pacific Rim, and an extended reflection on a scholarly life's work. Over 50 years of close observation has produced important studies of Oceanic countries including Fiji, Kiribati, Papua New Guinea and Vanuatu. Framing comments and substantial new introductory and concluding essays put these particular histories in wider contexts and look forward to the future.
Author Biography
Ray Watters was for many years before his retirement Professor of Geography at Victoria University. His many publications include a collection of historical geography essays, Land and Society in New Zealand (1965), the landmark book Koro: Economic Development and Social Change in Fiji (1969), a widely quoted and respected book on Latin America, Poverty and Peasantry in Peru's Southern Andes, 1963-90 (1994), and a co-edited collection Asia-Pacific: New geographies of the Pacific Rim (1997).
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