Pacific Islanders Under German Rule —— A Study In The Meaning Of Colonial Resistance

----- 德国统治下的太平洋岛民：殖民抵抗意义研究

ISBN: 9781921934315 出版年：2016 页码：288 Hempenstall, Peter ANU Press

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