European Impact and Pacific Influence: British and German Policy in the Pacific Islands and the Indigenous Response (International Library of Historical Studies)
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.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with European Impact and Pacific Influence: British and German Policy in the Pacific Islands and the Indigenous Response (International Library of Historical Studies). To get started finding European Impact and Pacific Influence: British and German Policy in the Pacific Islands and the Indigenous Response (International Library of Historical Studies), you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed. Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.
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European Impact and Pacific Influence: British and German Policy in the Pacific Islands and the Indigenous Response (International Library of Historical Studies)
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.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with European Impact and Pacific Influence: British and German Policy in the Pacific Islands and the Indigenous Response (International Library of Historical Studies). To get started finding European Impact and Pacific Influence: British and German Policy in the Pacific Islands and the Indigenous Response (International Library of Historical Studies), you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed. Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.