(Canberra, ACT : The Pacific Centre, College of Asia and the Pacific, The Australian National University) International Symposium on New Calendonia (2008 : Noumea)
New Caledonia and Melanesian Unity is a focused collection of contributions by leading French Pacific, Pacific Islander and Australian scholars, covering a large number of disciplines, all concerned with the position and role of New Caledonia as a Melanesian country, both internally and as an island state in the Southwest Pacific, along with Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands, Vanuatu and Fiji. The publication of an edited English language version of La Nouvelle-Caledonie pour /'integration melanesienne brings current French research within the purview of Anglophone readers, in the spirit of the Assises de la Recherche Frarn;aise dans le Pacifique, which took place in 2004.
