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The Journal of Pacific History @journalpacifichist.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

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...

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The Journal of Pacific History @journalpacifichist.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

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...

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The Journal of Pacific History @journalpacifichist.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

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:

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PACIFIC FILM DIALOGUES

A conversation with Letila Mitchell and Leo Pakarati + Film screening

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The Journal of Pacific History @journalpacifichist.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

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...

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The Journal of Pacific History @journalpacifichist.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

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

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The Journal of Pacific History @journalpacifichist.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

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

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The Journal of Pacific History @journalpacifichist.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

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...

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The Journal of Pacific History @journalpacifichist.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

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...

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The Journal of Pacific History @journalpacifichist.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

NARRATIVES AND DOCUMENTS / OPEN ACCESS MANUSCRIPT XLIX: Macmillan Brown Lectures 1998, Introduction Bruce Harding doi.org/10.1080/0022...

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The Journal of Pacific History @journalpacifichist.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

ARTICLE Tonga’s Monarchy and the Country’s Coconut Industry, c. 1945 to Independence Judith A. Bennett doi.org/10.1080/0022...

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The Journal of Pacific History @journalpacifichist.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

ARTICLE / OPEN ACCESS Tupaia’s Wind Positioning System: (Re)Modelling Ancestral Polynesian Voyaging Lars Eckstein doi.org/10.1080/0022...

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The Journal of Pacific History @journalpacifichist.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

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...

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The Journal of Pacific History @journalpacifichist.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

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...

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The Journal of Pacific History @journalpacifichist.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

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

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The Journal of Pacific History @journalpacifichist.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

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.

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The Journal of Pacific History @journalpacifichist.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

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

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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.

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The Journal of Pacific History @journalpacifichist.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

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...

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The Journal of Pacific History @journalpacifichist.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

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...

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The Journal of Pacific History @journalpacifichist.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

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...

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The Journal of Pacific History @journalpacifichist.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

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...

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The Journal of Pacific History @journalpacifichist.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

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...

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The Journal of Pacific History @journalpacifichist.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

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.

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The Journal of Pacific History @journalpacifichist.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

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...

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The Journal of Pacific History @journalpacifichist.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

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...

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The Journal of Pacific History @journalpacifichist.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

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...

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The Journal of Pacific History @journalpacifichist.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

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...

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The Journal of Pacific History @journalpacifichist.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

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...

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The Journal of Pacific History @journalpacifichist.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

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...

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The Journal of Pacific History @journalpacifichist.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

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...

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The Journal of Pacific History @journalpacifichist.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

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...

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The Journal of Pacific History @journalpacifichist.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

Hear that? That's the sound of Pacific historians and JPH readers getting ready to go through the latest issue of the Journal of Pacific History! Interested in submitting to the JPH? Check out the process and details here> www.tandfonline.com/journals/cjp...

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The Journal of Pacific History @journalpacifichist.bsky.social · 15/01/2026

As introduced and transcribed by Paul R. Struthers, Manuscript XLVII: Sea Diary of Captain Martin Huggett, Melanesian Mission, 1899, is a transcript of a sea diary, handwritten...https://doi.org/10.1080/00223344.2025.2495579

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The Journal of Pacific History @journalpacifichist.bsky.social · 14/01/2026

Are Pacific governments and politics of interest? Then, check out the latest article from the JPH's Pacific Currents section, A New and Unfamiliar Sea: Politics, Geopolitics and the 2024 General Elections in Solomon Islands, byTerence Wood. doi.org/10.1080/0022...

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The Journal of Pacific History @journalpacifichist.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

The final article from Connected Histories of Empire: France, Britain, and the Pacific, is 'Indigenous Reservations in Australia and New Caledonia: A Colonial Reality and Its Variations in Aboriginal and Kanak Worlds' by Isabelle Merle, Charlotte Ann Legg & Briony Neilson. doi.org/10.1080/0022...

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The Journal of Pacific History @journalpacifichist.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

The overflowing issue 4 of Volume 60 just keeps on providing articles for your reading lists. Here we have W. Matthew Cavert's 'Adrift in the Sea of Phosphates: Walpole Island in the Early 20th Century'. doi.org/10.1080/0022...

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The Journal of Pacific History @journalpacifichist.bsky.social · 09/01/2026

The last of our open-access articles from the new special issue is Charlotte Ann Legg and Briony Neilson's article, 'Settler Colonial Dynamics Across the Coral Sea: White Australia and the Contours of French Settlement in New Caledonia'. doi.org/10.1080/0022...

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The Journal of Pacific History @journalpacifichist.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

Keeping on with open access articles from the new special issue, we have Nicholas Hoare's article, '‘He Wished We Did Not Look So Thoroughly English’: Competition and Co-Imperialism on a French Polynesian Phosphate Island' doi.org/10.1080/0022...

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The Journal of Pacific History @journalpacifichist.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

Next up from the Connected Histories of Empire: Stevens, K. (2025). Violent Laughter: Commemorating Anglo-French Co-operation and Forgetting Violence through Gilbert and Sullivan in Colonial Vanuatu. The Journal of Pacific History, 60(4), 496–524. doi.org/10.1080/0022...

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The Journal of Pacific History @journalpacifichist.bsky.social · 06/01/2026

Continuing our feature of the new special issue, see Rechniewski, E. (2025). The Experiment and Experience of Co-Imperialism in the New Hebrides, 1870s–1920s. The Journal of Pacific History, 60(4), 473–495. doi.org/10.1080/0022...

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The Journal of Pacific History @journalpacifichist.bsky.social · 05/01/2026

A happy new year to readers, contributors, editors and reviewers of the JPH We'll be sharing articles from Volume 60 Issue 4 over the next couple of weeks. Please share widely F rom Charlotte & Briony. Connected Histories of Empire: France, Britain, and the Pacific. doi.org/10.1080/0022...

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The Journal of Pacific History @journalpacifichist.bsky.social · 12/12/2025

As part of our Best Article Prize announcement, we're featuring articles from the Special Issue on the Nuclear Pacific. Clémence Maillochon's open access article, 'Customary Paths Toward Denuclearization and Decolonization: Mā‘ohi and Kanak Activists Passing Through lo Larzac', is available here>

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The Journal of Pacific History @journalpacifichist.bsky.social · 11/12/2025

As part of our Best Article Prize announcement, we're featuring articles from the Special Issue on the Nuclear Pacific. Marco de Jong's open access article, '‘Our Pacific Through Native Eyes’: Māori Activism in the Nuclear Free and Independent Pacific Movement, 1980–5, is available here>

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The Journal of Pacific History @journalpacifichist.bsky.social · 10/12/2025

As part of our Best Article Prize announcement, this week we're featuring articles from the Special Issue on the Nuclear Pacific: Talei Luscia Mangioni's open access article, 'Art/Story of the Niuklia Fri Pasifik: On Doing Creative Pacific Histories', is available here>

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The Journal of Pacific History @journalpacifichist.bsky.social · 09/12/2025

As part of our Best Article Prize announcement for Volume 59, we're featuring articles from the Special Issue on the Nuclear Pacific, as edited by Nic Maclellan. Access Dimity Hawkins' s article, '‘We will not Relax our Efforts’ here>

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The Journal of Pacific History @journalpacifichist.bsky.social · 08/12/2025

GUNSON ESSAY PRIZE NEWS The Gunson Essay Prize was awarded by the Journal of Pacific History in conjunction with the Pacific History Association at the recent PHA conference to KDee Aimiti Ma’ia’i, DPhil Candidate, Global and Imperial History, University of Oxford.

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The Journal of Pacific History @journalpacifichist.bsky.social · 07/12/2025

It brings the JPH editorial board great pleasure to announce the winner of the T&F, JPH Best Article Prize for Volume 59: The Special Issue on the Nuclear Pacific, edited by Nic Maclellan. To celebrate this collective effort, we'll feature the work of contributing authors this coming week.

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The Journal of Pacific History @journalpacifichist.bsky.social · 04/11/2025

DEADLINE EXTENSION A prize of AUD $1,000 will be awarded at the 2025 Pacific History Association Conference, for the winner of the Gunson Essay Prize Competition. Now due 14 November 2025 (23:59pm, Australian Eastern Daylight time). See attached image for guidelines.

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The Journal of Pacific History @journalpacifichist.bsky.social · 20/10/2025

Brendan Sheridan examines the New Zealand Wars Collections at Te Papa Museum. Essential research on cultural institutions, colonial memory, and museum practices. Journal of Pacific History 60(3). DOI: 10.1080/00223344.2024.2442413

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The Journal of Pacific History @journalpacifichist.bsky.social · 17/10/2025

Editors respond! "Te Moana Nui a Kiwa: The Tide-Beating Heart of Earth" - D'Arcy, Hattori, Samson, Matsuda & Jones conclude the Cambridge History book forum. Journal of Pacific History 60(3) DOI: 10.1080/00223344.2025.2500773 #BookForum

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The Journal of Pacific History @journalpacifichist.bsky.social · 16/10/2025

Saui'a Louise Mataia Milo presents "Te Moana Nui a Kiwa – Our Living Nexus across 50,000 Years of History and Beyond" as the final part of the book forum. Essential Indigenous perspectives on Pacific history. Journal of Pacific History 60(3). DOI: 10.1080/00223344.2025.2461807

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