New Samoan

History Soon

A detailed history of the Samoan islands in the crucial political period between 1830 and 1900 is to be published by Oxford University Press in the next few months.

The history, Samoa 1830-1900, is mainly the work of the late R. P. Gilson, a research fellow in the Department of Political History of the Austra lian National University, Can berra. Following his death the manuscript was completed by Professor J. W. Davidson, Pro fessor of Pacific History at ANU, who is himself the author of a work on Samoa, Samoa mo Samoa.