376 pp. October 2001
paper, ISBN 978-0-8248-2529-4, $24.00
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Pacific
Polynesia
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biography |
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Queen Salote of Tonga: The Story of an Era, 1900-1965
by Elizabeth Wood-Ellem
Peoples of Hawai'i, the Pacific, & Asia
"Thorough, well-written and accessible to the general readers and useful as a companion to literature ... [in] courses on the political and cultural transformations in the Pacific" --Pacific Affairs 75 (Winter 2002-2003)"Well-written, very detailed and exciting to read" --The Australian Journal of Anthropology 15 (2004) "Elegant and impressive, it is one of the key works in Pacific history published this decade." --Evening Post
When Queen Salote of Tonga attended the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II in London in 1953, she was greeted as the tallest queen of the smallest kingdom and gained universal admiration by her natural dignity and the warmth of her personality. This account of Queen Salote's life and times is more than a biography, for it also describes the politics and social structure of a small kingdom that was a world in microcosm. For sale only in the U.S., its dependencies, Canada, and Mexico
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