Book Description
Unlike the conventional encyclopedias, which present the complex dialectics between the past and the present and the politics of representing other people and cultures and reflects these new intellectual developments, particularly in the longer essays. In addition, The Pacific Islands is organized according to broad subject areas to avoid the fragmentation that arises from an alphabetical arrangement and to furnish readers with more richly contextualized information.
The CD-ROM version of the encyclopedia will allow readers to exploit the search and navigation potentials of the medium. It contains hyperlinks between cross-referenced section titles and sections, a library of all the maps reproduced in the encyclopedia, and a photo library.
About the author
Kate Fortune is executive editor and research associate, Division of Pacific and Asian History, Australian National University.
