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The title of this book, Mothers' Darlings of the South Pacific: The Children of Indigenous Women and US Servicemen, World War II, charts a very specific set of concerns. First, the book's primary focus is the offspring of American military servicemen and Islander women during World War II, including the close relations that surround those children and their families. The

The title of this book, Mothers' Darlings of the South Pacific: The Children of Indigenous Women and US Servicemen, World War II, charts a very specific set of concerns. First, the book's primary focus is the offspring of American military servicemen and Islander women during World War II, including the close relations that surround those children and their families. The

". this paper offers a brief overview of issues and themes emerging from Melanesian studies that bear on current concerns with "indigenous governance". My strategy for doing so is to discuss a recent case of political innovation in Santa Isabel, Solomon Islands. Drawing on my own research in Santa Isabel, I ask what issues and questions emerging in that locale may be relevant for other local systems in Melanesia ." - page 1 ; AusAID

". this paper offers a brief overview of issues and themes emerging from Melanesian studies that bear on current concerns with "indigenous governance". My strategy for doing so is to discuss a recent case of political innovation in Santa Isabel, Solomon Islands. Drawing on my own research in Santa Isabel, I ask what issues and questions emerging in that locale may be relevant for other local systems in Melanesia ." - page 1 ; AusAID

AbstractIn the winter of 1945, the multinational Chinese Maritime Customs Service opened an inquiry into the cooperation of hundreds of its own employees with Japanese occupation forces in China. This was, as far as the historical record allows us to say, the most thorough investigation undertaken in China into collaboration during World War Two. This paper represents the first historical analysis of the Customs 'Staff Investigation Committee.' It argues that the investigation represented a new direction for the Customs Service in China. The investigation's underpinning rationale was that Customs staff, Chinese and foreign, served the Kuomintang government before any other notion of Chinese or Service interests—a dramatic change in direction for an organisation that had been emblematic of treaty-port China. The investigation thus offers historians an insight into the understudied final years of the Customs Service, into the late Republican government's efforts to deal with the legacy of imperialism, and into the extent and rationale of collaboration in Nationalist China.

Pacific Alternatives provides fresh perspectives on the ways cultural heritage serves to engage the modern state and global non-state actors. It showcases the strongest features of contemporary Pacific Studies: new insights in analyses of Islander life, and Indigenous voices in dialogue on land, politics, culture, tradition, custom, and identity