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In the 400 years from Magellan's entrance into Pacific waters to 1920, the lives of the people of the South Pacific were utterly transformed. Exotic diseases from Europe and America, particularly the worldwide influenza pandemic, were deadly for islanders. Ardent missionaries changed the belief systems and lives of nearly all Polynesians, Aborigines, and those Papuans and Melanesians living in areas accessible to westerners. By 1920 every island and atoll in the South Seas had been claimed as a colony or protectorate of a power such as Britain, France or the United States. Factors aiding this imperial sweep included European outposts such as Sydney, advances in maritime technology, the work of missionaries, a desire to profit from the area's relatively sparse resources, and international rivalry that led to the scramble for colonies. The coming of westerners, as this book points out, was not entirely negative, as head-hunting, cannibalism, chronic warfare, human sacrifice, and other practices were diminished--but whole cultures were irreversibly changed or even eradicated.
Contents
Table of Contents
Preface
Introduction: A Traumatic Transformation
1. What Magellan Never Found, 1520-1521
2. Spaniards Explore Their Lake, 1568-1793
3. The Dutch Century, 1616-1722
4. Disturbing the Tahitian Arcadia, 1767-1842
5. In the Bounty's Wake, 1789-1864
6. A White Tribe at Botany Bay, 1788-1911
7. The Death of the Last Tasmanian, 1642-1876
8. Maori Encounters, 1769-1840
9. The Sandwich Islands Transformed, 1778-1874
10. Missionaries Triumphant: Rarotonga and Mangareva, 1818-1887
11. Cannibals and Crucifixes: The Marquesas, 1774-1914
12. Vanished: Easter Island's Incredible Culture, 1722-1914
13. Bayonets and Baguettes: French Polynesia, 1842-1914
14. French Melanesia Subdued, 1774-1914
15. Rocking the Cradle: Tonga and Samoa, 1773-1914
16. King Cakobau's Dilemma: Fiji, 1803-1914
17. Maoris Marginalized, 1840-1914
18. Holding Out: New Hebrides, the Solomons and New Guinea, 1767-1914
19. Hawaii Subdued, 1874-1914
20. The Imperial Impulse, 1883-1918
21. An Ongoing Transformation, 1918-20
Appendix. Timeline of Significant Events
Chapter Notes
Bibliography
Index
