Independent Polynesian state (formerly Western Samoa); first Pacific island nation to gain independence, in 1962.
Traditional authority and colonial administration in the formation of the modern Samoan state.
Concise Samoan-authored survey of Samoan history through independence.
Classic primary ethnographic account of Samoan social structure; Bernice P. Bishop Museum Bulletin 76; foundational comparative source for pre-independence Samoa
Primary scholarly history of Samoa's colonial period through independence; interprets events from Samoan perspective; directly covers the 1962 independence
A single-volume history of the island Pacific — broad context for this polity.
The major novel of 20th-century Samoa by its most celebrated author, tracing a Samoan family across the colonial and independence eras.
Wendt's debut novel of Samoan emigrant identity between Samoa and New Zealand, a foundational text of Pacific literature.
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