Australian Imperialism in the Pacific
Title | Australian Imperialism in the Pacific PDF eBook |
Author | Roger C. Thompson |
Publisher | Carlton, Australia : Melbourne University Press ; Forest Grove, Or. : [available from] International Scholarly Book Services |
Pages | 312 |
Release | 1980 |
Genre | Australia |
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Decolonisation and the Pacific
Title | Decolonisation and the Pacific PDF eBook |
Author | Tracey Banivanua Mar |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 279 |
Release | 2016-04-26 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 110703759X |
This book charts the previously untold story of the mobility of Indigenous peoples across vast distances, vividly reshaping what is known about decolonisation.
Australian Imperialism in the Southwest Pacific, 1880-1940
Title | Australian Imperialism in the Southwest Pacific, 1880-1940 PDF eBook |
Author | Stuart Rosewarne |
Publisher | |
Pages | 1058 |
Release | 1986 |
Genre | Australia |
ISBN |
Violence and Colonial Dialogue
Title | Violence and Colonial Dialogue PDF eBook |
Author | Tracey Banivanua Mar |
Publisher | University of Hawaii Press |
Pages | 287 |
Release | 2006-12-31 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0824830253 |
During the post-abolition period a trade in cheap and often cost-neutral labor flourished in the western Pacific. For more than forty years, it supplied tens of thousands of indentured laborers to the sugar industry of northeastern Australia. Violence and Colonial Dialogue tells the story of its impact on the people who were traded. From the beaches and shallows of the Pacific’s frontiers to the plantations and settlements of Queensland and beyond, a collective tale of the pioneers of today’s Australian South Sea Island community is told through an abundant and effective use of materials that characterize the colonial record, including police registers, court records, prison censuses, administrative reports, legislative debates, and oral histories. With a thematic focus on the physical violence that was central to the experience of people who were voluntarily or involuntarily recruited, the history that emerges is a powerful tale that is at once both tragic and triumphant. Violence and Colonial Dialogue also tells a more universal story of colonization. Set mostly in the British settler-colony of Queensland during the last forty years of the nineteenth century, it explores the brutality embedded in the structures of a colonial state, while attempting to recover the stories that such processes obscured.
The Labor Party and Australian Imperialism in the Pacific, 1901-1919
Title | The Labor Party and Australian Imperialism in the Pacific, 1901-1919 PDF eBook |
Author | Roger C. Thompson |
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Imperialism and Racism in the South Pacific
Title | Imperialism and Racism in the South Pacific PDF eBook |
Author | W. Ross Johnston |
Publisher | |
Pages | 224 |
Release | 1983 |
Genre | Social Science |
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The White Pacific
Title | The White Pacific PDF eBook |
Author | Gerald Horne |
Publisher | University of Hawaii Press |
Pages | 265 |
Release | 2007-05-31 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0824865170 |
Worldwide supplies of sugar and cotton were impacted dramatically as the U.S. Civil War dragged on. New areas of production entered these lucrative markets, particularly in the South Pacific, and plantation agriculture grew substantially in disparate areas such as Australia, Fiji, and Hawaii. The increase in production required an increase in labor; in the rush to fill the vacuum, freebooters and other unsavory characters began a slave trade in Melanesians and Polynesians that continued into the twentieth century. The White Pacific ranges over the broad expanse of Oceania to reconstruct the history of "blackbirding" (slave trading) in the region. It examines the role of U.S. citizens (many of them ex-slaveholders and ex-confederates) in the trade and its roots in Civil War dislocations. What unfolds is a dramatic tale of unfree labor, conflicts between formal and informal empire, white supremacy, threats to sovereignty in Hawaii, the origins of a White Australian policy, and the rise of Japan as a Pacific power and putative protector. It also pieces together a wonderfully suggestive history of the African American presence in the Pacific. Based on deft archival research in Australia, New Zealand, Fiji, Hawaii, the United States, and Great Britain, The White Pacific uncovers a heretofore hidden story of race, labor, war, and intrigue that contributes significantly to the emerging intersectional histories of race and ethnicity.