European impact and Pacific influence
Subtitle: British and German colonial policy in the Pacific Islands and the indigenous response
By: edited by Hermann J. Hiery and John M. MacKenzie.
Contributors: Hiery, Hermann.; MacKenzie, John M.; German Historical Institute in London.
Series: International library of historical studies ;; 7; Library of international relations ;; [13]; Library of international relations (Series) ;; 13.
Publisher: Tauris Academic Studies, I.B. Tauris Pub.; German Historical Institute
Published: 1997
Place of publication: London; New York; London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 347
Subjects: Oceania -- Civilization -- Foreign influences -- Congresses.; Oceania -- Social conditions -- Congresses.; Oceania -- Ethnic relations -- Congresses.; Great Britain -- Colonies -- Oceania -- Congresses.; Germany -- Colonies -- Oceania -- Congresses.
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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
"A conference held at Kloster Andechs, near Munich, in the European summer of 1994"--P. xii.