Tonga - Bibliography





Bain, Kenneth. The New Friendly Islanders: The Tonga of King Taufa'ahau Tupou IV. London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1993.

Bott, Elizabeth. Tongan Society at the Time of Captain Cook's Visit: Discussions with Her Majesty Queen Salote Tupou. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1982.

Cook, James. The Explorations of Captain James Cook in the Pacific, as Told by Selections of His Own Journals, 1768–1779. New York: Heritage, 1958.

Ellem, Elizabeth W. Queen Salote of Tonga: The Story of an Era 1900–1965. Auckland, N.Z.: Auckland University Press, 1999.

Ferdon, Edwin N. Early Tonga: As the Explorers Saw It, 1616– 1810. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 1987.

Gailey, Christine Ward. Kinship to Kingship: Gender Hierarchy and State Formation in the Tongan Islands. Austin, Tex.: University of Texas Press, 1987.

Lawson, Stephanie. Tradition Versus Democracy in the South Pacific: Fiji, Tonga, and Western Samoa . New York: Cambridge University Press, 1996.

Marcus, George E. The Nobility and the Chiefly Tradition in the Modern Kingdom of Tonga. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1980.

Huntsman, Judith (ed.). Tonga and Samoa: Images of Gender and Polity . Christchurch, N.Z.: Macmillan Brown Centre for Pacific Studies, 1995.

Stanley, David. Tonga-Samoa Handbook. Emeryville, Calif.: Moon Publications, 1999.

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what are some important events? cause i am doing an report on this country for school and i neeed some important events.
HOW AND WHERE WERE TONGA FIND AND WHAT DO THEY DO FOR THEIR LIFE. DID THEY CELEBRATE THE HOILDAYS LIKE CHRISTMAS AND OTHER THINGS DO THEY HAVE SCHOOL?

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