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Melanesia

Here are entered works on the division of Oceania which consists of New Caledonia, Vanuatu, Solomon Islands, Admiralty Islands, Bismarck Archipelago, and Fiji.

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• Melanesia -- Antiquities
• Melanesia -- Bibliography
• Melanesia -- Description and travel
• Melanesia -- Economic conditions
• Melanesia -- Economic policy
• Melanesia -- Ethnography
• Melanesia -- Gazetteers
• Melanesia -- History
• Melanesia -- Languages
• Melanesia -- Monographs 940112
• Melanesia -- Native races
• Melanesia -- Pictorial works
• Melanesia -- Politics and government
• Melanesia -- Religious life and customs
• Melanesia -- Rural conditions
• Melanesia -- Social life and customs
• Melanesia -- Social policy
• Bismarck Archipelago (Papua New Guinea)
• New Guinea
• Fiji
• Solomon Islands
• Vanuatu
• Agriculture -- Melanesia
• Agriculture and state -- Melanesia
• Anthropologists -- Melanesia
• Anthropology, Cultural -- Melanesia
• Beef cattle -- Melanesia
• Bishops -- Melanesia
• Botany -- Melanesia
• Catholic Church -- Melanesia
• Church of England -- Melanesia
• City planning -- Melanesia
• Customary law -- Melanesia
• Decolonization -- Melanesia
• Education and state -- Melanesia
• Entrepreneurship -- Melanesia
• Environmental policy -- Melanesia
• Environmental protection -- Melanesia
• Ethnology -- Melanesia
• Excavations (Archaeology) -- Melanesia
• Folklore -- Melanesia
• Forest management -- Melanesia
• Forests and forestry -- Melanesia
• Gajdusek, D. Carleton (Daniel Carleton), 1923-2008 -- Travel -- Melanesia
• Gender identity -- Melanesia
• Human capital -- Melanesia
• Human ecology -- Melanesia
• Kinship -- Melanesia
• Kuru -- Melanesia
• Labor policy -- Melanesia
• Labor supply -- Melanesia
• Medical geography -- Melanesia
• Missionaries -- Melanesia
• Missions -- Melanesia
• Musical instruments -- Melanesia
• Names, Geographical -- Melanesia
• Natural resources -- Melanesia
• Non-formal education -- Melanesia
• Pidgin English -- Melanesia
• Polynesian languages -- Melanesia
• Pottery, Prehistoric -- Melanesia
• Reconciliation -- Political aspects -- Melanesia
• Sex role -- Melanesia
• Shields -- Melanesia
• Supply-side economics -- Melanesia
• Sustainable development -- Melanesia
• Tropical medicine -- Melanesia
• Truth commissions -- Melanesia
• Urbanization -- Melanesia
• Women -- Melanesia
• Women in development -- Melanesia
• Wood-carving -- Melanesia
• Zoology -- Melanesia

• Melanesia, beyond diversity (Research School of Pacific Studies, Australian National University ;, 1982), by Hank Nelson, Ronald James May, and Australian National University. Research School of Pacific Studies (page images at HathiTrust)
• Crime and custom in savage society (Harcourt, Brace & Co. ;, 1926), by Bronislaw Malinowski (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• A Melanesia bibliography : selected references for Fiji, Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands, Vanuatu, New Caledonia and Irian Jaya (Pacific Islands Development Program, East-West Center, 1984), by Terence A. Wesley-Smith, Michael P. Hamnett, and Pacific Islands Development Program (East-West Center) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Islands of enchantment, many sided Melanesia seen through many eyes (Macmillan and co., limited, 1911), by Florence Coombe (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Essays on the depopulation of Melanesia (The University press, 1922), by W. H. R. Rivers (page images at HathiTrust)
• Peoples & problems of the Pacific (T.F. Unwin, ltd., 1927), by J. Macmillan Brown (page images at HathiTrust)
• Kinship and social organisation (Constable & co., ltd., 1914), by W. H. R. Rivers (page images at HathiTrust)
• Dictionary and grammar of the language of Saʻa and Ulawa, Solomon islands (Carnegie institution of Washington, 1918), by Walter G. Ivens (page images at HathiTrust)
• Island peoples of the western Pacific : Micronesia and Melanesia (Smithsonian Institution, 1943), by Herbert W. Krieger (page images at HathiTrust)
• Melanesian and Micronesian journal : return expeditions to the New Hebrides, Caroline Islands, and New Guinea : July 29, 1965 to December 20, 1965 (Laboratory of Central Nervous System Studies, National Institute of Neurological Disoders and Stroke, National Institutes of Health, 1993), by D. Carleton Gajdusek and Laboratory of Central Nervous System Studies (U.S.) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Gems from the coral islands; or, Incidents of contrast between savage and Christian life of the South sea islanders. (Ward and Co., 1856), by William Gill (page images at HathiTrust)
• The light of Melanesia : a record of fifty years' mission work in the South Seas, written after a personal visitation made by request of John Selwyn, late Bishop of Melanesia (Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, 1904), by H. H. Montgomery (page images at HathiTrust)
• The light of Melanesia ; a record of thirty-five years mission work in the South seas; written after a personal visitation made by request of the Right Rev. John Selwyn, D.D., late bishop of Melanesia (London [etc.] : Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, 1896., 1896), by H. H. Montgomery (page images at HathiTrust)
• Dix années en Mélanésie ; étude historique et religieuse (E. Vitte, 1925), by A. Monfat (page images at HathiTrust)
• The light of Melanesia; a record of fifty years mission work in the South seas (Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge;, 1908), by H. H. Montgomery (page images at HathiTrust)
• Chez les cannibales; huit ans de croisière dans l'Océan Pacifique à bord du yacht "Le Tolna." (Plon-Nourrit et cie, 1903), by Rudolf Festetics von Tolna and E. Mandat-Grancey (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The islanders of the Pacific; or, The children of the sun (Appleton, 1921), by Reginald St.-Johnston (page images at HathiTrust)
• Melanesian journal : expedition to New Hebrides, Solomon Islands, Manus, New Britain, and New Guinea, 23 January 1965 to 7 April 1965 ([Study of Child Growth and Development and Disease Patterns in Primitive Cultures, Laboratory of Central Nervous System Studies, National Institute of Neurological Disease and Stroke, National Institutes of Health, U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services], 1989), by D. Carleton Gajdusek and National Institute of Neurological Diseases and Stroke. Study of Child Growth and Development and Disease Patterns in Primitive Cultures (page images at HathiTrust)
• Solomon Islands, New Britain, and East New Guinea journal : January 7, 1960 to May 6, 1960 (Study of Child Growth and Development and Disease Patterns in Primitive Cultures, National Institute of Neurological Diseases and Blindness, National Institutes of Health, 1970), by D. Carleton Gajdusek and National Institute of Neurological Diseases and Blindness (U.S.). Study of Child Growth and Development and Disease Patterns in Primitive Cultures (page images at HathiTrust)
• John Coleridge Patteson (Macmillan and Co., 1888), by Charlotte M. Yonge (page images at HathiTrust)
• Islands of enchantment, many sided Melanesia seen through many eyes and recorded by Florence Coombe (Macmillan and Co., 1911), by Florence Coombe (page images at HathiTrust)

• A Melanesia bibliography : selected references for Fiji, Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands, Vanuatu, New Caledonia and Irian Jaya (Pacific Islands Development Program, East-West Center, 1984), by Terence A. Wesley-Smith, Michael P. Hamnett, and Pacific Islands Development Program (East-West Center) (page images at HathiTrust)

• The western Pacific. Being a description of the groups of islands to the north and east of the Australian continent. (S. Low, Marston, Searle, and Rivington, 1883), by Walter Coote (page images at HathiTrust)
• Melanesian journal; expeditions in West and East New Guinea, Solomon Islands, New Hebrides, Fiji, and New Caledonia, to study child growth and development, behavior and disease patterns, human genetics, and kuru, February 22, 1963 to July 23, 1963 (Study of Child Growth and Development and Disease Patterns in Primitive Cultures, National Institute of Neurological Diseases and Stroke, 1973), by D. Carleton Gajdusek and National Institute of Neurological Diseases and Stroke. Study of Child Growth and Development and Disease Patterns in Primitive Cultures (page images at HathiTrust)
• Cannibals & convicts: notes of personal experiences in the western Pacific. (Cassell & company, limited, 1886), by Vagabond (page images at HathiTrust)
• Islands of the western Pacific. (J. Murray, 1853), by John Elphinstone Erskine, John Alfred Vinter, Josiah Wood Whymper, K. M. Knapp, H. N. Turnbull, R. A. Oliver, Walter J. Pollard, William Diapea, William Clowes and Sons, John Murray (Firm), J. & C. Walker (Firm), and Day & Son (page images at HathiTrust)
• The western Pacific and New Guinea: notes on the natives, Christian and cannibal, with some account of the old labour trade. (J. Murray, 1887), by Hugh Hastings Romilly (page images at HathiTrust)
• Urwald und Urmenschen : Reisen un Abenteuer auf den Melanesischen Inseln (Verlag Deutsche buchwerkstätten, 1923), by Friedrich Burger (page images at HathiTrust)
• Melanesian journal : expedition to New Hebrides, Solomon Islands, Manus, New Britain, and New Guinea, 23 January 1965 to 7 April 1965 (Study of Child Growth and Development and Disease Patterns in Primitive Cultures, Laboratory of Central Nervous System Studies, National Institute of Neurological Disease and Stroke, National Institutes of Health, 1993), by D. Carleton Gajdusek and National Institute of Neurological Diseases and Stroke. Study of Child Growth and Development and Disease Patterns in Primitive Cultures (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Ten years in Melanesia. (W. Gardner, Darton & co., 1888), by Alfred Penny (page images at HathiTrust)
• The western Pacific and New Guinea : notes on the natives, Christian and cannibal, with some account of the old labour trade (J. Murray, 1886), by Hugh Hastings Romilly (page images at HathiTrust)
• Wonders in the western isles, being a narrative of the commencement and progress of mission work in western Polynesia. (Pr. by Yates and Alexander, 1874), by A. W. Murray (page images at HathiTrust)
• Two years in southern seas (Small Maynard, 1923), by Charlotte Cameron (page images at HathiTrust)
• The South seas (Melanesia) (A. and C. Black, 1908), by J. H. M. Abbott and Norman H. Hardy (page images at HathiTrust)
• Gems from the coral islands; or, Incidents of contrast between savage and Christian life of the South sea islanders. (Ward and Co., 1856), by William Gill (page images at HathiTrust)
• Südsee; ein Reisebuch. (Drei Masken Verlag, 1922), by Norbert Jacques (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Melanesia to-day; a study circle book (Published for the Melanesian Mission Church House [by] Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, 1927), by Arthur Innes Hopkins (page images at HathiTrust)
• Natuur en volk van de Stille Zuidee (E. Querido, 1924), by Norbert Jacques and Alice Van Nahuys (page images at HathiTrust)
• My Odyssey (Ernest Benn, 1928), by Jack McLaren (page images at HathiTrust)
• Gems from the Coral islands ... (Ward and Co., 1855), by William Gill (page images at HathiTrust)
• Tagebuch meiner Reise um die Erde, 1892-1893. (Hölder, 1895), by Archduke of Austria Franz Ferdinand (page images at HathiTrust)
• Unter den Kannibalen der Sudsee; Studienreise durch die Melanesische Inselwelt (Verlag Deutsche Buchwerkstatten, 1923), by Friedrich Burger (page images at HathiTrust)
• Unter dem südlichen Kreuz. Reisebilder aus Melanesien (Deutsche Buchwerkstätten, 1924), by Carl Ribbe (page images at HathiTrust)
• Album de Mélanésie, Océanie Occidentale (P. Labau, 1854), by C. M. Léopold Verguet (page images at HathiTrust)
• Ten years in Melanesia. (W. Gardner, Darton & co., 1887), by Alfred Penny (page images at HathiTrust)
• The South seas (Melanesia) (A. and C. Black, 1910), by J. H. M. Abbott (page images at HathiTrust)
• Among the man-eaters. (T. F. Unwin, 1900), by John Gaggin (page images at HathiTrust)
• The South Sea islands : notes of a trip (R. Cheeseman, 1901), by R. Cheeseman (page images at HathiTrust)
• History of the Melanesian mission (Dutton, 1900), by E. S. Armstrong (page images at HathiTrust)
• Cannibals & convicts : notes of personal experiences in the western Pacific (Cassell, 1887), by Julian Thomas (page images at HathiTrust)
• Gems from the Coral Islands. (Presbyterian Board of publication, 1855), by William Gill (page images at HathiTrust)
• Gems from the Coral Islands (Ward and Co., 1856), by William Wyatt Gill (page images at HathiTrust)
• Gems from the Coral Islands (Elliot Stock, 1871), by William Wyatt Gill (page images at HathiTrust)
• By reef and shoal : being an account of a voyage amongst the islands in the southwestern Pacific (Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge ;, 1907), by William Sinker and L. P Robin (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Discoveries & surveys in New Guinea and the D'Entrecasteaux Islands : a Cruise in Polynesia and visits to the pearl-shelling stations in Torres Straits of H.M.S. Basilisk (John Murray, 1876), by John Moresby (page images at HathiTrust)
• Gems from the Coral Islands (Yates and Alexander, 1850), by William Wyatt Gill (page images at HathiTrust)

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