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European Impact and Pacific Influence: British and German Policy in the Pacific Islands and the Indigenous Response
Paperback / softback
Main Details
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European Impact and Pacific Influence: British and German Policy in the Pacific Islands and the Indigenous Response
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Authors and Contributors |
Edited by Hermann J. Hiery
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Edited by John MacKenzie
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Physical Properties |
Format:Paperback / softback | Pages:256 | Dimensions(mm): Height 234,Width 156 |
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Category/Genre | Australia, New Zealand & Pacific history History of other lands Colonialism and imperialism |
ISBN/Barcode |
9781350183124
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Classifications | Dewey:325.309965 |
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Audience | Tertiary Education (US: College) | Professional & Vocational | |
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Publishing Details |
Publisher |
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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Imprint |
Bloomsbury Academic
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Publication Date |
25 February 2021 |
Publication Country |
United Kingdom
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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; 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.
Author Biography
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).
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