The Journal of Pacific History
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BOOK REVIEW Leveraging Sovereignty: Kauikeaouli’s Global Strategy for the Hawaiian Nation, 1825–1854 By J. Susan Corley. Honolulu: University of Hawai‘i Press, 2022. 292 pp., notes, bibliography, index. ISBN-13: 9780824891039 Lorenz Gonschor doi.org/10.1080/0022...
BOOK REVIEW Genealogies, Genomes, and Histories in the Pacific: Genetic Drift By Matt K. Matsuda. Cham, Switzerland, Palgrave Macmillan, 2023. ix+293 pages, notes, bibliography, index. Erica Newman doi.org/10.1080/0022...
EVENT NEWS: Pacific Film Dialogues, a free event in the Australian Film Television and Radio School (AFTRS) Main Theatre exploring storytelling, screen cultures and creative practice across the Pacific. Friday 14 Aug 5:30pm - 9pm AEST AFTRS Main Theatre, Sydney, NSW Register below:
PACIFIC FILM DIALOGUES
A conversation with Letila Mitchell and Leo Pakarati + Film screening
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BOOK REVIEW The Fiji Times at 150: Imagining the Nation (Or, A Scrapbook of Fiji’s History) By Anurag Subramani. Suva, Fiji Times Pte Limited, 2023. 548 pp., illustrations, index, appendix. ISBN 9789822010251 FJ$87.00 (pbk). Nicholas Hoare doi.org/10.1080/0022...
EXHIBITION REVIEW Victory in the Pacific: 80th Anniversary Nicholas Hoare, Jareef Ahmed & Harry Eaton doi.org/10.1080/0022... The Journal of Pacific History welcomes scholars interested in contributing reviews. Reach out to our editorial assistant at editorial@jphinc.com.au to express your interest
NARRATIVE AND DOCUMENTS MANUSCRIPT XLIX: Macmillan Brown Lectures 1998 Lecture Three: Te Moemoeā – The Dream University of Canterbury, 22 September 1998 Tipene O’Regan & Edited by Bruce Harding
NARRATIVE AND DOCUMENTS MANUSCRIPT XLIX: Macmillan Brown Lectures 1998 Lecture Two: Te Kerēme – The Claim University of Canterbury, 15 September 1998 Tipene O’Regan & Edited by Bruce Harding doi.org/10.1080/0022...
MANUSCRIPT XLIX: Macmillan Brown Lectures 1998 Lecture One: Nga¯i Tahu Wha¯nui University of Canterbury, 8 September 1998 Tipene O’Regan & Edited by Bruce Harding doi.org/10.1080/0022...
NARRATIVES AND DOCUMENTS / OPEN ACCESS MANUSCRIPT XLIX: Macmillan Brown Lectures 1998, Introduction Bruce Harding doi.org/10.1080/0022...
ARTICLE Tonga’s Monarchy and the Country’s Coconut Industry, c. 1945 to Independence Judith A. Bennett doi.org/10.1080/0022...
ARTICLE / OPEN ACCESS Tupaia’s Wind Positioning System: (Re)Modelling Ancestral Polynesian Voyaging Lars Eckstein doi.org/10.1080/0022...
ARTICLE / OPEN ACCESS A British Chain Store Out of Place: Boots The Chemists in Suva, Fiji, 1944–64 Anna Greenwood, Richard Hornsey & Hilary Ingram doi.org/10.1080/0022...
ARTICLE / OPEN ACCESS Modelling of Epidemics Suggests Over 96 per cent Population Loss on Aneityum, Vanuatu, Following European Contact, Clare McFadden, Matthew Spriggs doi.org/10.1080/0022...
ARTICLE Scottish Reformers and ʻIli ʻĀina Dissolution in Mid-19th Century Hawaiʻi Thomas S. Dye, Aurora K. Kagawa-Viviani, Noa Kekuewa Lincoln, Kepā Maly,Seth Quintus, & Timothy M. Riethhttps://doi.org/10.1080/00223344.2025.2531818
Time to grab your favourite reading chair, or boot up your chosen reading program! It's time to read issue two of the Journal of Pacific History! Volume 61, Issue 2 has a great array of articles, books, and exhibition reviews to share with you over the coming weeks.
Congratulations to Margaret Mishra & Sudesh Mishra for their recent appearance on Pacific Beat. You can listen to their content by the link below and read their research article, The Wreck of the Syria, 1884: Naming the Dead, here> doi.org/10.1080/0022... #PacificHistory #history #longread
List of Girmit shipwreck casualties reconstructed 142 years later - ABC Pacific
Almost 150 years ago, a boat carrying around 500 indentured Indian labourers sunk, just off the coast of the island of Viti Levu.
abc.net.au
McGavin, K. (2026). The Rise of Pacific Literature: Decolonization, Radical Campuses, and Modernism: By Maebh Long and Matthew Hayward. New York, Columbia University Press, 2024. The Journal of Pacific History, 61(1), 199–200. doi.org/10.1080/0022...
BOOK REVIEW Buschmann, R. F. (2026). Piracy and the Making of the Spanish Pacific World: By Kristie Patricia Flannery. Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania Press, 2024.The Journal of Pacific History, 61(1), 197–199. doi.org/10.1080/0022...
BOOK REVIEW Faleolo, R. (Lute). (2026). Mandates and Missteps: Australian Government Scholarships to the Pacific – 1948 to 2018: By Anna Kent. Canberra, ANU Press,The Journal of Pacific History, 61(1), 194–195. doi.org/10.1080/0022...
BOOK REVIEW Keating, J. (2026). The Feminist Pacific: International Women’s Networks in Hawai‘i, 1820–1940: By Rumi Yasutake The Journal of Pacific History, 61(1), 195–197. doi.org/10.1080/0022...
Quanchi, M. (2026). APT11; Eleventh Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art, Gallery of Modern Art/Queensland Art Gallery, Southbank Precinct, Brisbane, 30 November 2024–5 May 2025, Free. The Journal of Pacific History, 61(1), 189–193. doi.org/10.1080/0022...
REVIEW ARTICLE Reynolds, P. (2026). Gauguin and Polynesia. The Journal of Pacific History, 61(1), 184–188. doi.org/10.1080/0022... This piece is a comprehensive essay review of the following texts: Gauguin and Polynesia, by Nicholas Thomas and Gauguin’s World: Tōna Iho, Tōna Ao, by Henri Loyrette.
OBITUARY Hempenstall, P., Firth, S., & Munro, D. (2026). Colin Newbury (1929–2025). The Journal of Pacific History, 61(1), 179–183. doi.org/10.1080/0022...
NARRATIVES & DOCUMENTS / OPEN ACCESS Tatiree, W., & Douglas, B. (2026). MANUSCRIPT XLVIII: Protestant Islander Missionaries in the Gilbert Islands (Kiribati). The Journal of Pacific History, 61(1), 147–178. doi.org/10.1080/0022...
NARRATIVES AND DOCUMENTS Stech, Z. (2026). A Taste of Canada in Vanuatu: The ViVa Project on Tanna (1991–2018). The Journal of Pacific History, 61(1), 130–146. doi.org/10.1080/0022...
ARTICLE Marie, G. (2026). Re-visiting Transgressive Actions: The Little-known Pacific Life of Sarah Henry Bland, 1797–1822. The Journal of Pacific History, 61(1), 105–129. doi.org/10.1080/0022...
OPEN ACCESS ARTICLE Wood, M. (2026). ‘They Will Terminate at District Headquarters’: Towards a History of Patrol Reports and Their Circulation in Papua New Guinea c. 1958–73. The Journal of Pacific History, 61(1), 78–104. doi.org/10.1080/0022...
ARTICLE Gandara, N., & Kaye, A. (2026). Sandalwood and the Entanglement of the Juan Fernández Islands in Eco-Cultural Networks. The Journal of Pacific History, 61(1), 50–77. doi.org/10.1080/0022...
OPEN ACCESS ARTICLE Duong-Pedica, A. (2026). Kanak Women and the Revolutionary Struggle for Kanak Liberation: Militant Women’s Writing in the Groupe 1878 and the PALIKA. The Journal of Pacific History, 61(1), 28–49. doi.org/10.1080/0022...
ARTICLE May, S. (2026). From Warriors to Soldiers: Militarizing Fijian Identity during the Second World War. The Journal of Pacific History, 61(1), 1–27. doi.org/10.1080/0022...