Fragments of empire : a history of the Western Pacific High Commission, 1877-1914 / Deryck Scarr.
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TextPublication details: Canberra : Australian National University Press, 1967.Description: xviii, 367 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 25 cmContent type: - text
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TNU, Faculty of Education, Arts and Humanities Pasifika Collection | PAC 325.9 SCA (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Not for loan | FEAH25031018 |
Includes several extended references to New Zealand in the Pacific.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 341-357) and index.
The structure of British authority before the cession of Fiji -- A fresh departure : the Western Pacific order in council, 1877 -- Disenchantment, 1878-1881 -- The High Commissioner in Polynesian politics : Samoa, 1875-1899 ; Tonga, 1876-1914 -- Failure in Melanesia and Micronesia, 1877-1892 -- Settlement, inter-island recruiting, and Anglo-French stalemate in the New Hebrides, 1877-1906 -- The New Hebrides governed, 1906-1914 -- The eventual solution : protectorates, 1892-1914 -- A postscript to trusteeship -- Appendix: High Commissioners and Acting High Commissioners for the Western Pacific, 1877-1914.