Pacific Islanders Under German Rule

Author : Peter J. Hempenstall
Publisher : ANU Press
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2016-06-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781921934322

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Pacific Islanders Under German Rule by Peter J. Hempenstall Pdf

This is an important book. It is a reprint of the first detailed study of how Pacific Islanders responded politically and economically to their rulers across the German empire of the Pacific. Under one cover, it captures the variety of interactions between the various German colonial administrations, with their separate approaches, and the leaders and people of Samoa in Polynesia, the major island centre of Pohnpei in Micronesia and the indigenes of New Guinea. Drawing on anthropology, new Pacific history insights and a range of theoretical works on African and Asian resistance from the 1960s and 1970s, it reveals the complexities of Islander reactions and the nature of protests against German imperial rule. It casts aside old assumptions that colonised peoples always resisted European colonisers. Instead, this book argues convincingly that Islander responses were often intelligent and subtle manipulations of their rulers’ agendas, their societies dynamic enough to make their own adjustments to the demands of empire. It does not shy away from major blunders by German colonial administrators, nor from the strategic and tactical mistakes of Islander leaders. At the same time, it raises the profile of several large personalities on both sides of the colonial frontier, including Lauaki Namulau’ulu Mamoe and Wilhelm Solf in Samoa; Henry Nanpei, Georg Fritz and Karl Boeder in Pohnpei; or Governor Albert Hahl and Po Minis from Manus Island in New Guinea.

Author : P. J. Hempenstall
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1979-01-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0080329012

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Pacific Islanders Under German Rule by P. J. Hempenstall Pdf

Author : Arthur J. Knoll,Hermann J. Hiery
Publisher : University Press of America
Page : 565 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2010-03-10
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780761850960

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The German Colonial Experience by Arthur J. Knoll,Hermann J. Hiery Pdf

The German Colonial Experience provides readers with an understanding of how the Germans gained, explored, pacified, ruled, and exploited their colonies prior to their loss in World War I. Knoll and Hiery show how Africans, Chinese, and Pacific Islanders reacted to German rule, how the Germans ran the daily affairs of government, their vision for the colonized peoples, and how the colonizers and the colonized perceived one another. In other words, how did German colonial rule actually work? This book intensely scrutinizes colonial documents, most of them in German script, from archives not only in Germany, but also from places such as Australia, New Guinea, and Samoa. Many of these documents have never previously been published, even in the original German.

Author : Hermann Hiery
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
Page : 409 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1995-12-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780824864897

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The Neglected War by Hermann Hiery Pdf

In the summer of 1914 Germany’s Pacific colonies were a quiet backwater of its empire. But the shots of Sarajevo shattered the Pacific as well as Europe. Within weeks of the outbreak of World war I Western Samoa - German territory to be taken in the war - New Guinea, and the Micronesian lands, were occupied by Australian, New Zealand, and Japanese forces. Current historiography claims that World War I made little difference to the indigenous populations of the Pacific and that this change in colonial masters had little effect on those they ruled. The Neglected War challenges this interpretation. World War I and its aftermath, Hermann Hiery claims, had a tremendous effect on the Pacific Islands, Hiery details the policies pursued by Australia, New Zealand, and Japan, showing how each viewed and treated the indigenous populations. Administered by military officers with little civil oversight, the new colonial regimes employed the mandates they had received at the Paris Peace Conference with impunity. Hiery’s scrupulous review of the evidence, gathered from largely unknown primary sources, has uncovered a story of masquerades and coverups, negligence and duplicity, leading in some cases to full blown atrocities. Most of all, he tells the story of Pacific Islanders ,how they coped with the dramatic changes brought about by the war, and how they tried to influence its consequences. Many Islanders were fully aware that their political destiny was to be redefined after the war, and a few even saw it as an opportunity to achieve independence. This is also the story of their failure. Behind the evidence gathered here lie fundamental questions. How important are the differences in the nature of particular colonial regimes, and what effect do such differences have on indigenous peoples? How do indigenous peoples interpret disparities in colonial rule? This revisionist work addresses these issues while shedding light on a crucial time in the history of the Pacific.

Author : Hermann J. Hiery,John MacKenzie
Publisher : I.B. Tauris
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1997-12-31
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015040544630

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European Impact and Pacific Influence by Hermann J. Hiery,John MacKenzie Pdf

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 : Hermann J. Hiery
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 3447114932

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"Kainkain Piksa" by Hermann J. Hiery Pdf

Author : Francis X. Hezel
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
Page : 496 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2003-09-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9780824864491

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Strangers in Their Own Land by Francis X. Hezel Pdf

"Hezel has written an authoritative and engaging narrative of [a] succession of colonial regimes, drawing upon a broad range of published and archival sources as well as his own considerable knowledge of the region. This is a ‘conventional’ history, and a very good one, focused mostly on political and economic developments. Hezel demonstrates a fine understanding of the complicated relations between administrators, missionaries, traders, chiefs and commoners, in a wide range of social and historical settings." —Pacific Affairs "The tale [of Strangers in Their Own Land] is one of interplay between four sequential colonial regimes (Spain Germany, Japan, and the United States) and the diverse island cultures they governed. It is also a tale of relationships among islands whose inhabitants did not always see eye-to-eye and among individuals who fought private and public battles in those islands. Hezel conveys both the unity of purpose exerted by a colonial government and the subversion of that purpose by administrators, teachers, islands, and visitors.... [The] history is thoroughly supported by archival materials, first-person testimonies, and secondary sources. Hezel acknowledges the power of the visual when he ends his book by describing the distinctive flags that now replace Spanish, German, Japanese, and American symbols of rule. the scene epitomizes a theme of the book: global political and economic forces, whether colonial or post-colonial, cannot erode the distinctiveness each island claims."—American Historical Review

Author : Brij V. Lal,Kate Fortune
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
Page : 710 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2000-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 082482265X

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The Pacific Islands by Brij V. Lal,Kate Fortune Pdf

An encyclopaedia of information on major aspects of Pacific life, including the physical environment, peoples, history, politics, economy, society and culture. The CD-ROM contains hyperlinks between section titles and sections, a library of all the maps in the encyclopaedia, and a photo library.

Author : Dirk R. Spennemann
Publisher : Retro/Spect
Page : 414 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015079339894

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Edge of Empire by Dirk R. Spennemann Pdf

Author : Madeleine Bunting
Publisher : Random House UK
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Channel Islands
ISBN : 184413086X

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The Model Occupation by Madeleine Bunting Pdf

"When the Germans arrived on the Channel Islands after the defeat of France in the summer of 1940, they and the islanders agreed that it would be a 'Model Occupation'. But as the war dragged on and Britain appeared to abandon the islands to their fate, so features of Nazi occupation already widespread throughout Europe emerged. There were love affairs between island women and German soldiers, betrayals and black marketeering, individual acts of resistance, feats of courage and endurance. Every islander was faced with uncomfortable choices- where did patriotism end and self-preservation begin? What moral obligation did they have to the thousands of emaciated and ill-treated slave labourers the Nazi's brought among them to build an impregnable ring of defences around the islands?"

Author : H. Glenn Penny,Matti Bunzl
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2003-03-17
Category : History
ISBN : 0472089269

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Worldly Provincialism by H. Glenn Penny,Matti Bunzl Pdf

Worldly Provincialism introduces readers to German anthropology during the age of empire and illustrates how the initial motives and interests that gave birth to German anthropology were channeled and shaped by contexts as various as romantic voyages in the South Pacific, the Herero wars in Southwest Africa, open-air presentations of exotic peoples in Berlin, and prison camps during World War I. It also shows that Germans' unique intellectual traditions, their emphasis on concepts of culture, and the late arrival of both the German nation-state and the German colonial empire affected their interest in and relationships with non-Europeans. Worldly Provincialism confirms that there is no justification for presupposing that Europeans shared a common cultural code while abroad or for assuming that they would have behaved similarly during their interactions with non-Europeans. Thus, we must rethink the relationships among anthropology, colonialism, and race. It also forces a rethinking of our understanding of race in the nineteenth century, when race science emerged and eclipsed many alternative racial theories. H. Glenn Penny is Assistant Professor of History, University of Missouri-Kansas City. Matti Bunzl is Aaron and Robin Fischer Assistant Professor of Jewish Culture and Society, Department of Anthropology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Author : Cait Storr
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2020-09-17
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781108498500

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International Status in the Shadow of Empire by Cait Storr Pdf

This book offers a new account of Nauru's imperial history and examines its significance in the history of international law.

Author : Robert Quentin McKinney
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1947
Category : Germany
ISBN : STANFORD:36105120058073

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Micronesia Under German Rule, 1885-1914 by Robert Quentin McKinney Pdf

Author : R. Murray Thomas,T. Neville Postlethwaite
Publisher : Elsevier
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2016-01-26
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781483148557

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Schooling in the Pacific Islands by R. Murray Thomas,T. Neville Postlethwaite Pdf

Schooling in the Pacific Islands: Colonies in Transition is the third book in a three-volume series describing education in selected countries of Oceania and the Asian regions bordering the Pacific. Organized into 10 chapters, this book begins with a general outlook on the colonization and schooling in Oceania. Subsequent chapters detail Oceania schools' social and historical backgrounds, the goals of education, the structure and size of the schooling enterprise, administration and finance, curriculum development, the supply of educational personnel, and problems and prospects for the future. Individual island countries covered include Papua New Guinea, Micronesia, New Caledonia and the Society Islands, Vanuatu, Fiji, American Samoa and Western Samoa, Tonga, and The Cook Islands.

Author : Kees van Dijk
Publisher : Amsterdam University Press
Page : 527 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2015-03-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9789048516193

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Pacific Strife by Kees van Dijk Pdf

In the late 1800s and early 1900s, colonial powers clashed over much of Central and East Asia: Great Britain and Germany fought over New Guinea, the Bismarck Archipelago, Fiji, and Samoa; France and Great Britain competed over control of continental Southwest Asia; and the United States annexed the Philippines and Hawaii. Meanwhile, the possible disintegration of China and Japan’s growing nationalism added new dimensions to the rivalries. Surveying these and other international developments in the Pacific basin during the three decades preceding World War I, Kees van Dijk traces the emergence of superpowers during the colonial race and analyzes their conduct as they struggled for territory. Extensive in scope, Pacific Strife is a fascinating look at a volatile moment in history.