European Impact and Pacific Influence
British and German Policy in the Pacific Islands and the Indigenous Response
Published on 25. February 2021
Book
Paperback/Softback
256 pages
978-1-350-18312-4 (ISBN)
Description
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.
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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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 156 mm
Weight
522 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-350-18312-4 (9781350183124)
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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).
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).
Content
Glossary
Abbreviations
Foreword Adolf M. Birke
Introduction
Contexts of German Colonialism in Africa
Part 1 - Perceptions of Each Other
The Art of the Head Hunters
Myth, Race and Indentity in New Zealand
The 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 Samoa
Zealotry among the Converted
Part 2 - Impact Unleashed: European Contact and the Environment
Pacific Ecology and British Imperialism, 1770-1970
Acclimatizers: European Environmental Impact in Australia and New Zealand/Aotearoa
Papua New Guinea, its Demographic History and Infectious Diseases
Part 3 - Traditional and European Concepts of 'Justice' and their Influence on One Another
The Impact of the British on the Tongan Traditional Concept of Justice and Law
Colonial Government 'Justice' and 'the Rule of Law'
Colonial Law as Metropolitan Defence
Defining Separate Spheres
Constitutional Instruments in Kiribati and Tuvalu
Part 4 - Traditional and European Behaviour: Sexuality as a Special Case of Pacific-European Interaction
British Missionaries and Sexuality
Germans, Pacific Islanders and Sexuality
Re-Reading the White Women's Protection Ordinance
Index
Abbreviations
Foreword Adolf M. Birke
Introduction
Contexts of German Colonialism in Africa
Part 1 - Perceptions of Each Other
The Art of the Head Hunters
Myth, Race and Indentity in New Zealand
The 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 Samoa
Zealotry among the Converted
Part 2 - Impact Unleashed: European Contact and the Environment
Pacific Ecology and British Imperialism, 1770-1970
Acclimatizers: European Environmental Impact in Australia and New Zealand/Aotearoa
Papua New Guinea, its Demographic History and Infectious Diseases
Part 3 - Traditional and European Concepts of 'Justice' and their Influence on One Another
The Impact of the British on the Tongan Traditional Concept of Justice and Law
Colonial Government 'Justice' and 'the Rule of Law'
Colonial Law as Metropolitan Defence
Defining Separate Spheres
Constitutional Instruments in Kiribati and Tuvalu
Part 4 - Traditional and European Behaviour: Sexuality as a Special Case of Pacific-European Interaction
British Missionaries and Sexuality
Germans, Pacific Islanders and Sexuality
Re-Reading the White Women's Protection Ordinance
Index