Queen Sālote of Tonga

Queen Sālote of Tonga

Author: Elizabeth Wood-Ellem

Publisher:

Published: 1999

Total Pages: 480

ISBN-13:

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This biography of Queen Salote of Tonga is also a political & social history of the kingdom of Tonga between 1900 & 1965. It looks at aspects of Tongan society, especially the role of rank, status & of the leading families & the Queen's skill in keeping the loyalty of her people.


Queen Salote of Tonga

Queen Salote of Tonga

Author: Elizabeth Wood-Ellem

Publisher: University of Hawaii Press

Published: 2001-01-01

Total Pages: 480

ISBN-13: 9780824825294

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When Queen Salote of Tonga attended the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II in London in 1953, she was greeted as the tallest queen of the smallest kingdom and gained universal admiration for her natural dignity and the warmth of her personality. This account of Queen Salote's life and times is more than a biography, for it also describes the politics and social structure of a small kingdom that was a world in microcosm.


Sālote

Sālote

Author: Margaret Hixon

Publisher: Otago University Press

Published: 2000

Total Pages: 280

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Queen Salote ascended the throne of Tonga in 1918, at the age of 18, to lead this Pacific nation through the hazards of the 20th century until her death in 1965. This biography paints an intimate portrait of Salote, from her childhood through her education and her years as queen, drawing on oral histories, personal papers, and newspaper accounts. Includes black-and-white historical and personal photographs. Hixon has produced a number of works documenting life in traditional communities. She was encouraged to write this book by the Tongan royal family.


Songs & Poems of Queen Sālote

Songs & Poems of Queen Sālote

Author: Sālote Tupou III (Queen of Tonga)

Publisher:

Published: 2004

Total Pages: 456

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This volume incules a line for line translation into English of 114 compositions, including songs, lullabies, recitals, laments, drama, and Tonga's great dances the Lakalaka and Ma'ulu'ulu, with over 170 illustrations.


Church and State in Tonga

Church and State in Tonga

Author: Sione Latukefu

Publisher: University of Queensland Press

Published: 2014-06-01

Total Pages: 405

ISBN-13: 1921902353

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First published in 1974, Church and State in Tonga is a classic study of the formative period of modern Tongan history. The years covered are from the re-establishment of the Wesleyan Methodist mission in the 1820s until the promulgation of the Tongan constitution in 1875. The missionaries assumed the role of political advisors, but by the 1850s the missionary monopoly was undermined and what author Sione Latukefu calls a "marriage of convenience" and an "alliance" began. The king became selective in the advice he accepted and took his own initiatives. Much of the book deals with the development of kingship and the emergence of written codes of law and the constitution. The book is dedicated to Queen Salote Tupou III who passed the traditions of the royal family to Latukefu, determined to impart her wealth of knowledge of the Tongan traditional past. Church and State in Tonga was the first substantial study by a Tongan of the history of the Tongan monarchy and government, a rich documentary study reinforced by knowledge of local language, customs, and traditions.


Samoan Heroes

Samoan Heroes

Author: David Riley

Publisher:

Published: 2015

Total Pages: 154

ISBN-13: 9780473315047

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"A collection of inspirational stories of achievers who have Samoan ancestry. It includes: contemporary heroes like Dwayne 'The Rock' Johnson, Troy Polamalu, Judge Ida Malosi, Savage and Associate Professor Donna Adis; historical figures like Emma Coe, Tamasese, Salamasina and Lauaki; legends like Sina, Tiitii and Tigilau"--Back cover.


Kinship to Kingship

Kinship to Kingship

Author: Christine Ward Gailey

Publisher: University of Texas Press

Published: 1987-12-01

Total Pages: 345

ISBN-13: 0292724586

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Have women always been subordinated? If not, why and how did women’s subordination develop? Kinship to Kingship was the first book to examine in detail how and why gender relations become skewed when classes and the state emerge in a society. Using a Marxist-feminist approach, Christine Ward Gailey analyzes women’s status in one society over three hundred years, from a period when kinship relations organized property, work, distribution, consumption, and reproduction to a class-based state society. Although this study focuses on one group of islands, Tonga, in the South Pacific, the author discusses processes that can be seen through the neocolonial world. This ethnohistorical study argues that evolution from a kin-based society to one organized along class lines necessarily entails the subordination of women. And the opposite is also held to be true: state and class formation cannot be understood without analyzing gender and the status of women. Of interest to students of anthropology, political science, sociology, and women’s studies, this work is a major contribution to social history.


Friendly Islands

Friendly Islands

Author: Noel Rutherford

Publisher: Melbourne ; New York : Oxford University Press

Published: 1977

Total Pages: 320

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The Happy Isles of Oceania

The Happy Isles of Oceania

Author: Paul Theroux

Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Published: 2006-12-08

Total Pages: 731

ISBN-13: 0547525184

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The author of The Great Railway Bazaar explores the South Pacific by kayak: “This exhilarating epic ranks with [his] best travel books” (Publishers Weekly). In one of his most exotic and adventuresome journeys, travel writer Paul Theroux embarks on an eighteen-month tour of the South Pacific, exploring fifty-one islands by collapsible kayak. Beginning in New Zealand's rain forests and ultimately coming to shore thousands of miles away in Hawaii, Theroux paddles alone over isolated atolls, through dirty harbors and shark-filled waters, and along treacherous coastlines. Along the way, Theroux meets the king of Tonga, encounters street gangs in Auckland, and investigates a cargo cult in Vanuatu. From Australia to Tahiti, Fiji, Easter Island, and beyond, this exhilarating tropical epic is full of disarming observations and high adventure.