Title The neglected war : the German South Pacific and the influence of World War I / Hermann Joseph Hiery

Published Honolulu, Hawaii : University of Hawaiì Press, ©1995

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Description 1 online resource (xvii, 387 pages) : illustrations, map Series Book collections on Project MUSE Contents 1 The First World War as a Turning Point -- 2 The German South Pacific under the Shadow of War -- 3 Micronesia and the War -- 4 Samoa and the New Zealand Experience (1914-1921) -- 5 Indigenous Responses to the First World War -- 6 Paris, the Versailles Treaty, and the Fate of Germany's South Pacific Colonies -- 7 "New" Colonial Policy and Indigenous Interpretations of Colonial Rule in the Light of the First World War Summary In the summer of 1914 Germany's Pacific colonies were a quiet backwater of its empire. But the shots of Sarajevo shattered the Pacific as well as Europe. Within weeks of the outbreak of World War I, Western Samoa - the First German territory to be taken in the war - New Guinea, and the Micronesian islands, were occupied by Australian, New Zealand, and Japanese forces. Current historiography claims that World War I made little difference to the indigenous populations of the Pacific and that this change in colonial masters had little effect on those they ruled. The Neglected War challenges this interpretation. World War I and its aftermath, Hermann Hiery claims, had a tremendous effect on the Pacific Islands. Hiery details the policies pursued by Australia, New Zealand, and Japan, showing how each viewed and treated the indigenous populations. Administered by military officers with little civil oversight, the new colonial regimes employed the mandates they had received at the Paris Peace Conference with impurity. Hiery's scrupulous review of the evidence, gathered from largely unknown primary sources, has uncovered a story of masquerades and coverups, negligence and duplicity, leading in some cases to full-blown atrocities. Most of all, he tells the story of Pacific Islanders, how they coped with the dramatic changes brought about by the war, and how they tried to influence its consequences. Many Islanders were fully aware that their political destiny was to be redefined after the war, and a few even saw it as an opportunity to achieve independence. This is also the story of their failure. Behind the evidence gathered here lie fundamental questions: How important are the differences in the nature of particular colonial regimes, and what effect do such differences have on indigenous peoples? How do indigenous peoples interpret disparities in colonial rule? This revisionist work addresses these issues while shedding light on a crucial time in the history of the Pacific Analysis Humaniora Historie Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 347-366) and index Notes Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL In English Print version record digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL Subject World War, 1914-1918 -- Oceania Germans -- Oceania -- History Australians -- Oceania -- History HISTORY. HISTORY -- Australia & New Zealand. German colonies Australians Germans Colonies -- Administration Duitse koloniën. Eerste Wereldoorlog. 15.90 history of Australia and Oceania. Kolonialismus Weltkrieg 1914-1918 World War, 1914-1918 -- Oceania. Germans -- Oceania -- History. Australians -- Oceania -- History. SUBJECT Oceania -- History Germany -- Colonies -- Administration Australia -- Colonies -- Administration Subject Oceania Ozeanien Deutschland Oceania -- History. Germany -- Colonies -- Administration. Australia -- Colonies -- Administration. Genre/Form History Form Electronic book LC no. 95013075 ISBN 0585327661 9780585327662 9780824864897 0824864891

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