Emerging from empire? Decolonisation in the Pacific : proceedings of a workshop at the Australian National University, December 1996

Abstract

These papers grew out of a workshop in the Division of Pacific and Asian History in the Australian National University in December 1996. A December workshop has become a regular mechanism for assembling Pacific historians, their affines and agnates, without the formality of registration, a secretariat - or much of a budget. Accordingly, we owe a great debt to the participants who came largely at their won expense or funded by their own institutions. We owe an equal debt to Maeve O'Collins and Mary Mortimer, for hosting the parties which allow the networking for which these events are best remembered. (First paragraph of Introduction).