Author : Hermann J. Hiery
Release : 1997-12-31
Genre : History
Kind : eBook
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Book Synopsis European Impact and Pacific Influence by : Hermann J. Hiery
Download or read book European Impact and Pacific Influence written by Hermann J. Hiery. This book was released on 1997-12-31. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.