The Plantation Dream: Developing British New Guinea And Papua 1884-1942 by D. C Lewis

The Plantation Dream provides the first detailed analysis of land settlement by Europeans and the early vicissitudes of plantation agriculture in British new Guinea and Papua up until the outbreak of war in the Pacific in 1942. It also becomes a history of 'planter Papua', the now vanished world of a few hundred white settlers who made their home in 'the first grandchild of Empire' - as teh former British New Guinea become when it passed to the new Commonwealth as Australia's first overseas territory. Having assembled a remarkable range of private papers, reminiscences and archival source material the author examines the colonial enterprise in Papua in both economic and human terms.

Publisher:	The Journal of Pacific History
Year:	1996
Binding:	Paperback
ISBN:	9780959547788
Condition:	Very Good
Description:	Owner's Name inside; Heavy. Contains a loose letter to owner from another academic disputing some points made in the book. No answering letter!

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SKU: 1589264
Location: Pacific