Book reviews

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Upon a Stone Altar. A history of the island of Pohnpei to 1890. By David Hanlon. Pacific Islands Monographs Series, No 5. Honolulu, University of Hawaii Press, 1988. 320pp, bibliog., index, glossary, 8 appendices. $US32.00. The New Zealand Wars and the Victorian Interpretation of Racial Conflict. By James Belich. Auckland. Auckland University Press, 1986. 396pp, maps, glossary, bibliog., index. $NZ39.95. The Politics of Land in Vanuatu: from colony to independence. By Howard Van Trease. Suva, Institute of Pacific Studies, University of the South Pacific, 1987. Maps, bibliog., index. The Fiji Economy, May 1987: Problems and Prospects. By Rodney Cole and Helen Hughes. Pacific Policy Papers No.4, Canberra, National Centre for Development Studies, Australian National University, 1988. 148pp, bibliog. The Russian Discovery of Hawai'i. The Ethnographic and Historic Record. By Glynn Barratt. Honolulu, Editions Limited, 1987. xxi, 259pp, illus., index, bibliog. Norfolk Island: An Outline of Its History 1774–1987. By Merval Hoare. St Lucia, University of Queensland Press, 1988. xvii, 206pp, illus., bibliog., index. $A16.95. New Caledonia: Essays in Nationalism and Dependency. Edited by Michael Spencer, Alan Ward, John Connell. St Lucia, University of Queensland Press, 1988. 253pp, map, notes. $A19.95. R.L.S. in the South Seas. An intimate photographic record. Edited by Alanna Knight. Edinburgh, Mainstream Publishing, 1986. 192pp. £12.95 stg., $A35.00.