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Winding Up The British Empire In The Pacific Islands
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Author : W. David McIntyre
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2016-11-24
Winding Up The British Empire In The Pacific Islands written by W. David McIntyre and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-11-24 with History categories.
Little has been written about when, how and why the British Government changed its mind about giving independance to the Pacific Islands. Using recently opened archives, Winding Up the British Empire in the Pacific Islands gives the first detailed account of this event. As Britain began to dissolve the Empire in Asia in the aftermath of the Second World War, it announced that there were some countries that were so small, remote, and lacking in resources that they could never become independent states. However, between 1970 and 1980 there was a rapid about-turn. Accelerated decolonization suddenly became the order of the day. Here was the death warrant of the Empire, and hastily-arranged independence ceremonies were performed for six new states - Tonga, Fiji, Solomon Islands, Tuvalu, Kiribati, and Vanuatu. The rise of anti-imperialist pressures in the United Nations had a major role in this change in policy, as did the pioneering examples marked by the release of Western Samoa by New Zealand in 1962 and Nauru by Australia in 1968. The tenacity of Pacific Islanders in maintaining their cultures was in contrast to more strident Afro-Asia nationalisms. The closing of the Colonial Office, by merger with the Commonwealth Relations Office in 1966, followed by the joining of the Commonwealth and Foreign Offices in 1968, became a major turning point in Britain's relations with the Islands. In place of long-nurtured traditions of trusteeship for indigenous populations that had evolved in the Colonial Office, the new Foreign & Commonwealth Office concentrated on fostering British interests, which came to mean reducing distant commitments and focussing on the Atlantic world and Europe.
Winding Up The British Empire In The Pacific Islands
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Author : William David McIntyre
language : en
Publisher: Oxford History of the British
Release Date : 2014
Winding Up The British Empire In The Pacific Islands written by William David McIntyre and has been published by Oxford History of the British this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014 with History categories.
Little has been written about when, how and why the British Government changed its mind about giving independance to the Pacific Islands. Using recently opened archives, Winding Up the British Empire in the Pacific Islands gives the first detailed account of this event. As Britain began to dissolve the Empire in Asia in the aftermath of the Second World War, it announced that there were some countries that were so small, remote, and lacking in resources that they could never become independent states. However, between 1970 and 1980 there was a rapid about-turn. Accelerated decolonization suddenly became the order of the day. Here was the death warrant of the Empire, and hastily-arranged independence ceremonies were performed for six new states - Tonga, Fiji, Solomon Islands, Tuvalu, Kiribati, and Vanuatu. The rise of anti-imperialist pressures in the United Nations had a major role in this change in policy, as did the pioneering examples marked by the release of Western Samoa by New Zealand in 1962 and Nauru by Australia in 1968. The tenacity of Pacific Islanders in maintaining their cultures was in contrast to more strident Afro-Asia nationalisms. The closing of the Colonial Office, by merger with the Commonwealth Relations Office in 1966, followed by the joining of the Commonwealth and Foreign Offices in 1968, became a major turning point in Britain's relations with the Islands. In place of long-nurtured traditions of trusteeship for indigenous populations that had evolved in the Colonial Office, the new Foreign & Commonwealth Office concentrated on fostering British interests, which came to mean reducing distant commitments and focussing on the Atlantic world and Europe.
British Imperial Strategies In The Pacific 1750 1900
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Author : Jane Samson
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2003
British Imperial Strategies In The Pacific 1750 1900 written by Jane Samson and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003 with History categories.
This reader of 18 previously published historical essays (all drawn from the 1990s) focuses on the relationship between Pacific history and the British Empire. The first set of papers looks at cultural contact brought about by exploration and trade, focusing on questions of the economy, science, and the nature of British collection of artifacts. Other articles concentrate more on the process of colonization, discussing such subjects as the origins of the first penal settlements in Australia and the impact of colonization on native peoples in Australia, New Zealand, and elsewhere. The final essays explore issues of culture, gender, and the environment. Annotation (c)2003 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com).
Imperial Benevolence
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Author : Jane Samson
language : en
Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
Release Date : 1998-07-01
Imperial Benevolence written by Jane Samson and has been published by University of Hawaii Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998-07-01 with History categories.
This insightful analysis of British imperialism in the south Pacific explores the impulses behind British calls for the protection and "improvement" of islanders. From kingmaking projects in Hawaii, Tonga, and Fiji to the "antislavery" campaign against the labor trade in the Western pacific, the author examines the deeply subjective, cultural roots permeating Britons' attitudes toward Pacific Islanders. By teasing out the connections between those attitudes and the British humanitarian and antislavery movements, Imperial Benevolence reminds us that nineteenth-century Britain was engaged in a global campaign for "Christianization and Civilization."
Britain In The Pacific Islands
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Author : William Parker Morrell
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1969
Britain In The Pacific Islands written by William Parker Morrell and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1969 with British categories.
"This book traces the history of the relations of Great Britain with the peoples of the Pacific Islands from the ages of the discoverers to the treaties of cession, protectorates, and annexations of the later nineteenth and early twentieth centuries which brought many groups under British administration. It discusses the impact of French and German colonial policy upon British interest and the demarcation of spheres of influence in the Pacific. There is a brief critical account of British colonial administration in Fiji and New Guinea. An epilogue outlines recent developments and the changing conceptions of "colonialism" in the twentieth century Pacific." -- Inside front cover.
Tulagi
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Author : Clive Moore
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2019
Tulagi written by Clive Moore and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019 with categories.
Tulagi was the capital of the British Solomon Islands Protectorate between 1897 and 1942. The British withdrawal from the island during the Pacific War, its capture by the Japanese and the American reconquest left the island¿s facilities damaged beyond repair. After the war, Britain moved the capital to the American military base on Guadalcanal, which became Honiara. The Tulagi settlement was an enclave of several small islands, the permanent population of which was never more than 600: 300 foreigners¿one-third of European origin and most of the remainder Chinese¿and an equivalent number of Solomon Islanders. Thousands of Solomon Islander males also passed through on their way to work on plantations and as boat crews, hospital patients and prisoners.
Statehood La Carte In The Caribbean And The Pacific
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Author : Jack Corbett
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2023-04-15
Statehood La Carte In The Caribbean And The Pacific written by Jack Corbett and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-04-15 with Political Science categories.
This book explains how leaders in the Caribbean and Pacific regions balance the autonomy-viability dilemma of postcolonial statehood - that political self-determination is a hollow achievement unless it is accompanied by economic development - by practising statehood à la carte. Previous research has focused on the pursuit of decolonial self-determination through and above the nation state, via regionalism and internationalism, or by creating non-sovereign alternatives to it. This book looks at how communities have sought the same goals below the state, including via secession and devolution. Downsizing is typically portrayed as the antithesis of progressive, cosmopolitan internationalism and employed as evidence for the claim that the age of anticolonial self-determination has ended. In this book, Jack Corbett shows how these movements are animated by similar ideas and motivations that are rendered viable by the simultaneous pursuit of regional integration and forms of non-sovereignty. He argues that the à la carte pursuit of political and economic independence through, above, and below the state, and via non-sovereign alternatives to it, is a pragmatic response to the contradictions inherent to coloniality.
The Kanak Awakening
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Author : David A. Chappell
language : en
Publisher: Pacific Islands Monograph
Release Date : 2013-10-31
The Kanak Awakening written by David A. Chappell and has been published by Pacific Islands Monograph this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-10-31 with History categories.
In 1853, France annexed the Melanesian islands of New Caledonia to establish a convict colony and strategic port of call. Unlike other European settler–dominated countries in the Pacific, the territory’s indigenous people remained more numerous than immigrants for over a century. Despite military conquest, land dispossession, and epidemics, its thirty language groups survived on tribal reserves and nurtured customary traditions and identities. In addition, colonial segregation into the racial category of canaques helped them to find new unity. When neighboring anglophone colonies began to decolonize in the 1960s, France retained tight control of New Caledonia for its nickel reserves, reversing earlier policies that had granted greater autonomy for the islands. Anticolonial protest movements culminated in the 1980s Kanak revolt, after which two negotiated peace accords resulted in autonomy in a progressive form and officially recognized Kanak identity for the first time. But the near-parity of settlers and Kanak continues to make nation-building a challenging task, despite a 1998 agreement among Kanak and settlers to seek a “common destiny.” This study examines the rise in New Caledonia of rival identity formations that became increasingly polarized in the 1970s and examines in particular the emergence of activist discourses in favor of Kanak cultural nationalism and land reform, multiracial progressive sovereignty, or a combination of both aspirations. Most studies of modern New Caledonia focus on the violent 1980s uprising, which left deep scars on local memories and identities. Yet the genesis of that rebellion began with a handful of university students who painted graffiti on public buildings in 1969, and such activists discussed many of the same issues that face the country’s leadership today. After examining the historical, cultural, and intellectual background of that movement, this work draws on new research in public and private archives and interviews with participants to trace the rise of a nationalist movement that ultimately restored self-government and legalized indigenous aspirations for sovereignty in a local citizenship with its own symbols. Kanak now govern two out of three provinces and have an important voice in the Congress of New Caledonia, but they are a slight demographic minority. Their quest for nationhood must achieve consensus with the immigrant communities, much as the founders of the independence movement in the 1970s recommended.
The Oxford History Of The British Empire Volume Ii The Eighteenth Century
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Author : P. J. Marshall
language : en
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Release Date : 1998-05-28
The Oxford History Of The British Empire Volume Ii The Eighteenth Century written by P. J. Marshall and has been published by OUP Oxford this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998-05-28 with History categories.
Volume II of the Oxford History of the British Empire examines the history of British worldwide expansion from the Glorious Revolution of 1689 to the end of the Napoleonic Wars, a crucial phase in the creation of the modern British Empire. This is the age of General Wolfe, Clive of India, and Captain Cook. The international team of experts deploy the latest scholarly research to trace and analyse development and expansion over more than a century. They show how trade, warfare, and migration created an Empire, at first overwhelmingly in the Americas but later increasingly in Asia. Although the Empire was ruptured by the American Revolution, it survived and grew into the British Empire that was to dominate the world during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. series blurb The Oxford History of the British Empire is a major new assessment of the Empire in the light of recent scholarship and the progressive opening of historical records. It deals with the interaction of British and non-western societies from the Elizabethan era to the late twentieth century, aiming to provide a balanced treatment of the ruled as well as the rulers, and to take into account the significance of the Empire for the peoples of the British Isles. It explores economic and social trends as well as political.
International Status In The Shadow Of Empire
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Author : Cait Storr
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2020-09-17
International Status In The Shadow Of Empire written by Cait Storr and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-09-17 with Law categories.
This book offers a new account of Nauru's imperial history and examines its significance in the history of international law.