Isbn: 9781350183124 - european impact and pacific influence: british and german policy in the pacific islands and the indigenous response (library of international relations, 13, band 13) (5 Ergebnisse)

Zustand: New. In English.

Zustand: New.

Paperback. Zustand: Brand New. 256 pages. 9.00x6.25x1.00 inches. In Stock.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 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; and 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.…

Einband - flex.(Paperback). Zustand: New.