European impact and Pacific influence : British and German colonial policy in the Pacific Islands and the indigenous response
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European impact and Pacific influence : British and German colonial policy in the Pacific Islands and the indigenous response
(The international library of historical studies, 7)(Library of international relations)
Tauris Academic Studies, 1997
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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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