Pacific history

Key databases

• Historical Abstracts
  Historical coverage of the world from 1450 to the present.
• Hawaii Pacific Journal Index
  Journals published in or about Hawaii and the Pacific.

Full list of library databases for History.

General histories

• Campbell, Ian C., Worlds apart: A history of the Pacific Islands, Christchurch, University of Canterbury Press, 2010.
• Denoon, Donald et al. (eds), The Cambridge history of the Pacific Islanders, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1997.
• Fischer, Stephen, A history of the Pacific Islands, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan, 2002.

Journals

• The contemporary Pacific
• Country profile. Pacific Islands: Fiji, Solomon Islands, Western Samoa, Vanuatu, Tonga
• The Hawaiian journal of history
• Journal de la Société des Océanistes
• Journal of Pacific history
• Journal of Pacific studies
• Journal of the Polynesian Society
• New Zealand journal of history
• Pacific Islands monthly: PIM
  The most important current awareness periodical for the Pacific area until it ceased in 2000.
• Pacific Islands report
• Pacific magazine
  Absorbed Islands business. Later split into Pacific magazine (North ed.) and Pacific magazine (South ed.).
• Pacific studies

Reference resources

• The Pacific Islands: An encyclopedia
• Historical dictionary of Polynesia
• Historical dictionary of Papua New Guinea
• Historical dictionary of Guam and Micronesia

Bibliographies and indexes

• The journal of Pacific history
  From 1998 includes the "Pacific history bibliography". Invaluable annual review which lists Pacific-related theses from around the world, as well as books, chapters and journal articles.
  1988-1997 The journal of Pacific history bibliography
  1981-1987 Pacific history bibliography and comment
  1979-1980 Pacific history bibliography
• Index to New Zealand periodicals 1941-1986
  An annual publication which indexed most New Zealand journals, newspapers, and magazines.
• INNZ: Index New Zealand 1987-
  Continues Index to New Zealand Periodicals.
• Hawaii-Pacific journal index
  An index with abstracts from 50 Pacific journals and magazines.
• Bibliography of periodical articles relating to the South Pacific 1974-1978 and South Pacific periodicals index 1979-1988
• The P.M.B. book of Pacific indexes
  Pacific Manuscripts Bureau.

Archives and manuscripts | Newspapers | Government documents | National bibliographies | Statistics

Archives and manuscripts

• Pacific Manuscripts Bureau
  Archives, manuscripts and rare printed material relating to the Pacific Islands.  
• Western Pacific Archives
  The Western Pacific Archives (WPA) contains the records of the British colonial administration in the Western Pacific from 1877-1978.
• TV and Radio
  Includes The Chapman Archive, New Zealand’s largest and most comprehensive collection of broadcast news and current affairs.
• Pacific Manuscripts Bureau
  Copies of non-governmental archives and manuscripts are available in the Microtexts Room in the Special Collections section on the Ground Floor of the General Library.
• Other research collections

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Newspapers

Cook Islands

• Cook Islands news

Fiji

• Fiji times

Papua New Guinea

• Papua-New Guinea post-courier and selective index

Samoa

• Samoa observer
• Samoana
• Savali
• Papers Past
  1877-1920

Solomon Islands

• Solomon star

Tonga

• Taumu'a lelei
• Kalonikali Tonga = Tonga chronicle
• Taimi o Tonga

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Government documents

Official government documents include publications of the executive, legislative and judicial arms of government. Search the Catalogue for the name of the country, department or ministry as the author or subject.

Gazettes

A gazette is the official newspaper of a Government and reports a wide variety of detail about its day to day business including proclamations, Orders in Council, a summary of parliamentary proceedings, government notices, some official appointments, notices regarding public lands and, periodically, lists of members of some professional groups such as teachers and medical practitioners.

• Fiji government gazettes
• Tonga government gazette
• Western Pacific High Commission gazette

Statutes and regulations

• PacLII
  Pacific Islands Legal Information Institute index and databases. Legislations, Statutes and Court cases and decisions are searchable by country and subject.

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National bibliographies

• Fiji national bibliography 1979-1985
• Hawaiian national bibliography 1780-1900
• New Guinea bibliography 1967-1980, continued by Papua New Guinea national bibliography
• Samoa: A national bibliography
• Tokelau national bibliography = Fakamaumauga o na tuhituhiga o Tokelau

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Statistics

• PRISM
  Pacific Regional Information System maintained by the South Pacific Secretariat, Noumea, New Caledonia provides country statistics from the Pacific Islands.

Yearbooks

Yearbooks provide basic statistical data.

• Pacific Islands yearbook 1932-1994
• Statistical yearbook for Asia and the Pacific
• Statistical indicators for Asia and the Pacific

Catalogue

Use the Catalogue to search for statistics relating to the Pacific within the library collection.

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Organisations, conferences and proceedings

• Pacific History Association (PHA)
  • Upcoming and past conferences of the PHA are listed on the website.
• Pacific Studies at the University of Auckland

Support

• Referencing
  Access a range of tools and support material to assist your referencing work.

Examples

• Quick©ite
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  Covers a range of styles used at the University of Auckland.