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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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Book category Books in English Humanities History Regional & national history

• Full title: European Impact and Pacific Influence
• Subtitle: British and German Policy in the Pacific Islands and the Indigenous Response
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 256
• EAN: 9781860640599
• ISBN: 1860640591
• ID: 05121038
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
• Weight: 612 g
• Dimensions: 216 × 138 × 32 mm
• Date of publishing: 31. December 1997

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