TY  - BOOK
AU  - J. Hempenstall, Peter
AB  - This is an important book. It is a reprint of the first detailed study of how Pacific Islanders responded politically and economically to their rulers across the German empire of the Pacific. Under one cover, it captures the variety of interactions between the various German colonial administrations, with their separate approaches, and the leaders and people of Samoa in Polynesia, the major island centre of Pohnpei in Micronesia and the indigenes of New Guinea. Drawing on anthropology, new Pacific history insights and a range of theoretical works on African and Asian resistance from the 1960s and 1970s, it reveals the complexities of Islander reactions and the nature of protests against German imperial rule. It casts aside old assumptions that colonised peoples always resisted European colonisers. Instead, this book argues convincingly that Islander responses were often intelligent and subtle manipulations of their rulers’ agendas, their societies dynamic enough to make their own adjustments to the demands of empire. It does not shy away from major blunders by German colonial administrators, nor from the strategic and tactical mistakes of Islander leaders. At the same time, it raises the profile of several large personalities on both sides of the colonial frontier, including Lauaki Namulau’ulu Mamoe and Wilhelm Solf in Samoa; Henry Nanpei, Georg Fritz and Karl Boeder in Pohnpei; or Governor Albert Hahl and Po Minis from Manus Island in New Guinea.
DO  - 10.26530/OAPEN_612753
ID  - OAPEN ID: 612753
ID  - OAPEN ID: OCN: 956277530
ID  - OAPEN ID: http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/32312
KW  - pacific history
KW  - german colonisation
KW  - anthropology
KW  - Copra
KW  - Ethnic groups in Europe
KW  - Indigenous people of New Guinea
KW  - New Guinea
KW  - Pohnpei
KW  - Samoa
KW  - Sokehs
KW  - Tolai people
L1  - https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/32312/1/612753.pdf
L1  - https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/32312/1/612753.pdf
L1  - https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/32312/1/612753.pdf
L1  - https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/32312/1/612753.pdf
LA  - English
LK  - https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/33030
PB  - ANU Press
PY  - 2016
SN  - 9781921934315
TI  - Pacific Islanders Under German Rule: A Study in the Meaning of Colonial Resistancenull
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