European Impact and Pacific Influence

British and German Policy in the Pacific Islands and the Indigenous Response

Häftad, Engelska, 2021

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British and German ambitions have clashed in the Pacific at many times in the last two centuries. This is a study of those episodes, and their effects on the European powers and the Pacific Islanders involved. It throws light on the activities of missionaries in Micronesia, head-hunters in New Guinea, Law-makers in Tonga and the influence of the British and Germans in the region.The book considers: European perceptions of Pacific islanders and vice versa; the ecological effect of European intervention, both on the environment and its inhabitants; the efforts to impose a European rule of law in the South Pacific; and the area of sexuality as a specific form of Pacific-European interaction where cultural differences between European and traditional behaviour was at its most marked.

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Utgivningsdatum2021-02-25
Mått156 x 234 x undefined mm
Vikt522 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor256
FörlagBloomsbury Publishing PLC
ISBN9781350183124

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Hermann J. Hiery is Chair of Modern History at University of Bayreuth, Germany.John MacKenzie is Emeritus Professor of Imperial History at University of Lancaster, UK. His books include: The Partition of Africa (1983), Propaganda and Empire (1984), The Railway Station, a Social History (jtly, 1986), Imperialism and Popular Culture (ed, 1986), Imperialism and the Natural World (ed, 1990), Popular Imperialism and the Military (ed, 1992), Orientalism: History, Theory and the Arts (1995), David Livingstone and the Victorian Encounter with Africa (ed, 1996), The Victorian Vision (ed, 2001), Peoples, Nations and Cultures (ed, 2005), The Scots in South Africa (2007), Museums and Empire (2009), Scotland and the British Empire (ed, 2011), European Empires and the People (ed, 2011), Scotland, Empire and Decolonisation in the Twentieth Century (ed, 2015).

GlossaryAbbreviationsForeword Adolf M. BirkeIntroductionContexts of German Colonialism in AfricaPart 1 - Perceptions of Each OtherThe Art of the Head HuntersMyth, Race and Indentity in New ZealandThe Colonial Imagination and the Making and Remaking of the Samoan People'The Kava Ceremony is a Prophecy': An Interpretation of the Transition to Christianity in SamoaZealotry among the ConvertedPart 2 - Impact Unleashed: European Contact and the EnvironmentPacific Ecology and British Imperialism, 1770-1970Acclimatizers: European Environmental Impact in Australia and New Zealand/AotearoaPapua New Guinea, its Demographic History and Infectious DiseasesPart 3 - Traditional and European Concepts of 'Justice' and their Influence on One AnotherThe Impact of the British on the Tongan Traditional Concept of Justice and LawColonial Government 'Justice' and 'the Rule of Law'Colonial Law as Metropolitan DefenceDefining Separate SpheresConstitutional Instruments in Kiribati and TuvaluPart 4 - Traditional and European Behaviour: Sexuality as a Special Case of Pacific-European InteractionBritish Missionaries and SexualityGermans, Pacific Islanders and SexualityRe-Reading the White Women's Protection OrdinanceIndex