"A valuable addition to Pacific historiography" --History Now, Summer 2003

"[This book] is broad and reflexive and contains many interesting insights." --Pacific Affairs, Winter 2001-2002

"Howe displays impressive scholarship and deep reading on a whole host of contentious issues in Pacific studies: disease and depopulation, ecology and environment, ownership and representation of scholarship, conflict between tradition and modernity. There is no other book quite like this. Clearly an important work by a distinguished historian." --Brij V. Lal, Australian National University

"This is a remarkable book. It could only have been written by a unique individual like K. R. Howe who is both a highly creative and at the same time capable of drawing upon a long professional career of serious research and reflection about Pacific history and historiography. He helpfully places Oceania in a broad global and intellectual context and successfully explores the meeting of two perceived entities--the West and Pacific peoples. He does this in such a way as to incorporate such widely diverse topics as notions of paradise, islands as psychological spaces, human destiny, technology, 'knowing,' colonialism, racism, gender, nuclear testing, and indigenous peoples. Nature, Culture, and History represents the combination of imaginative insight, personal experience, scholarly depth, and philosophical wisdom at its best." --Paul Gordon Lauren, Regents Professor, University of Montana

K. R. Howe is a major and longstanding contributor to Pacific history and historiography. The author of Where the Waves Fall: The Pacific Islands in the Twentieth Century (1984) and coeditor of Tides of History: The Pacific Islands in the Twentieth Century (UH Press, 1994), Howe has a Personal Chair in History at Massey University's Albany Campus in Auckland, New Zealand.