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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; 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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Author:   Hermann J. Hiery (University of Bayreuth, Germany) ,  John MacKenzie (University of Lancaster, UK)
Publisher:   Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Imprint:   Bloomsbury Academic
Weight:   0.522kg
ISBN:  

9781350183124

ISBN 10:   1350183121
Pages:   256
Publication Date:   25 February 2021
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Manufactured on demand  
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Table of Contents

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

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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).

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