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{"title":"Replenishing the Earth: the settler revolution and the rise of the Anglo-world, 1783–1939. By James Belich.","authors":"Frank Bongiorno","doi":"10.1080/00223344.2011.632953","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00223344.2011.632953","url":null,"abstract":"policy making; and concludes that New Zealand did follow a distinctive (if not exceptional) path, a conclusion at odds with one of the book’s avowed intentions. It is at least debatable whether New Zealand’s historians have been as preoccupied as claimed with pursuing the elusive matter of ‘national identity’. A glance at the voluminous material produced for the Waitangi Tribunal, most of it based on a close and critical engagement with the archival and oral record, scarcely suggests any such preoccupation. And it certainly does not support the claim that historians have been prone to view the country’s history as unique, distinct or exceptional. Further, any reading of resource and conservation history and migration serves to demonstrate that New Zealand’s historians are well versed in similar areas of inquiry in other ‘regions of recent settlement’. The claim that the collection incorporates much of the research conducted since 1992 scarcely bears scrutiny. The many well-researched reports prepared as part of the Treaty of Waitangi settlement process have been practically ignored, a pity given the focused and determined effort which they represent to identify and unravel the processes of colonisation, disempowerment, and immiseration. Richard Boast’s excellent distillation of land loss on the part of Maori (Buying the Land, Selling the Land: governments and Maori land in the North Island, 1865–1921, 2008) rates no mention anywhere in the book. Further, those same studies express what is singularly lacking in this collection, namely, a sense of the regional and local. Also largely overlooked is the huge volume of family, local and regional history which has appeared in the last twenty years, much of it of great value. Has The New Oxford History of New Zealand succeeded in complicating our understanding of New Zealand’s past? Possibly, but partly on account of the conceptual wooliness apparent in some of the essays, and the use of social science jargon and assorted turgidities. Turning nouns into verbs and offering vague generalisations do not facilitate understanding, and if historical writing is not intended to inform a general readership, then, it may be asked, what is it for? Is the adjective ‘new’ justified? Not fully. Many of the themes explored are familiar, many of the interpretations offered have been offered before, and many of the conclusions reached are readily recognisable. Has the collection ‘destabilised’ the whole idea of a general history of New Zealand? It is to be hoped not, for a thorough new general history is something which in the post-Belich and the (almost) post-Treaty settlement era is greatly needed.","PeriodicalId":45229,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF PACIFIC HISTORY","volume":"46 1","pages":"409 - 411"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2011-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/00223344.2011.632953","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"59022891","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Kokoda","authors":"H. Nelson","doi":"10.1080/00223344.2010.484173","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00223344.2010.484173","url":null,"abstract":"From the release of Damien Parer's Kokoda Frontline in 1942, there have been several high quality documentary films and many popular and scholarly histories on the battles on the Kokoda Track, but until Alister Grierson's Kokoda of 2006 there was no feature film. Initially well received by an Australian public, Kokoda raises several important questions for historians. Makers of films on historical events properly draw on contemporary images: they are evocative of a time and place, guides to all that detail of dress, manners and possessions that take a crew so long to get right and that the pedantic delight in criticising, and they provide templates for shot composition. But the images in films are not subjected to the same scrutiny that historians apply to written sources. In Grierson's Kokoda, images are drawn from somewhere on the Track and relocated and, in one case, taken from another battle and another place. Film critics were concerned with placing Kokoda within the history of war films and evaluating it against other war films. When film critics considered whether Kokoda was ‘real’ or ‘convincing’, they were judging whether the behaviour of soldiers in battle moved and engaged an audience. Almost no film critics considered the film's accuracy as history, and it does repeat many popular errors about the Kokoda battles. Finally, it is interesting to consider what has been omitted and whether this has been the inevitable consequence of reducing an event spread over 100 kilometres of Track and several months to 92 minutes of film time, and whether the choices have diminished the end product as film or as history. More historians need to make themselves familiar with film and engage more readily in the public evaluation of those films claimed to be based on ‘true’ stories and illuminating what have come to be accepted as determining events in national histories.","PeriodicalId":45229,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF PACIFIC HISTORY","volume":"45 1","pages":"104 - 89"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2010-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/00223344.2010.484173","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"59022898","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Tuakana-Teina relationship and leadership in ancient Mangaia and Aotearoa.","authors":"Michael P J Reilly","doi":"10.1080/00223344.2010.501698","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00223344.2010.501698","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The relationship between tuakana and teina (the older and younger sibling or cousin of same sex) is the tumu (foundation, origin, cause) of rank in eastern Polynesia. By examining historical documents from selected island societies, namely, Mangaia and Aotearoa, we can understand the dynamics of this relationship as part of their world-view. Normally tuakana and teina had close, cooperative, mutually respectful and loyal relationships; the teina supporting their elder. Sometimes, however, the moral balance between them was affected either by one of them acting inappropriately towards the other, or by hostile acts from others. To remedy these threats to social cohesion, various strategies were adopted, including peace-making, flight or spatial separation, or fighting. Stories about this relationship continue to serve as the tumu for today's younger generations.</p>","PeriodicalId":45229,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF PACIFIC HISTORY","volume":"45 2","pages":"211-27"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2010-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/00223344.2010.501698","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"40063731","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Terra Australis to Oceania: racial geography in the \"fifth part of the world\".","authors":"Bronwen Douglas","doi":"10.1080/00223344.2010.501696","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00223344.2010.501696","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This paper is a synoptic history of racial geography in the 'fifth part of the world' or Oceania - an extended region embracing what are now Australia, Island Southeast Asia, the Pacific Islands, Aotearoa/New Zealand and Papua New Guinea. The period in question stretches from classical antiquity to the Enlightenment, to focus on the consolidation of European racial thinking with the marriage of geography and raciology in the early 19th century. The paper investigates the naming of places by Europeans and its ultimate entanglement with their racial classifications of people. The formulation of geographical and anthropological knowledge is located at the interface of metropolitan discourses and local experience. This necessitates unpacking the relationships between, on the one hand, the deductive reasoning of metropolitan savants, and, on the other hand, the empirical logic of voyagers and settlers who had visited or lived in particular places, encountered their inhabitants, and been exposed, often unwittingly, to indigenous agency and knowledge.</p>","PeriodicalId":45229,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF PACIFIC HISTORY","volume":"45 2","pages":"179-210"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2010-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/00223344.2010.501696","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"40063730","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"\"Two colours, one people?\": the paradoxes of the multiracial union Calédonienne in the commune of Koné (New Caledonia, 1951-1977).","authors":"Benoît Trépied","doi":"10.1080/00223344.2010.501700","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00223344.2010.501700","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Between the 1950s and the 1970s, New Caledonian politics were dominated by one major party, the Union Calédonienne (UC), supported by the vast majority of Kanak voters and a crucial minority of European voters. In retrospect, the multicultural project of the UC under the rubric 'two colours, one people' can seem quite surprising, as it was elaborated less than ten years after the end of a particularly oppressive colonial era and three decades before the emergence of radical Kanak demands for decolonisation. This paper analyses the ambiguous relationships between the UC and New Caledonia's colonial heritage through a micro-historical sociology of the party in the rural commune of Koné (northwest coast) that draws on both archival research and interviews. With regard to both colonial and socio-economic cleavages, the paper retraces the individual and collective trajectories of UC militants and elected members of the mairie (municipal council), to gain a better understanding of the local electoral success of the party. On the scale of Koné, the UC relied in practice on a complex articulation between diverse social logics of political affiliation: across colonial frontiers, within and among Kanak communities, 'little settlers' (petits colons), merchants, mining workers, and 'white' (or not so 'white') local populations.</p>","PeriodicalId":45229,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF PACIFIC HISTORY","volume":"45 2","pages":"247-64"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2010-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/00223344.2010.501700","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"40063732","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Making tuba in the Torres Strait Islands: the cultural diffusion and geographic mobility of an alcoholic drink.","authors":"Maggie Brady,&nbsp;Vic McGrath","doi":"10.1080/00223344.2010.530811","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00223344.2010.530811","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>There is relatively scant evidence of the Indigenous production and consumption of intoxicating drinks on the Australian mainland prior to the arrival of outsiders. Although Australian Aboriginal peoples had mastered fermentation in some regions, the Indigenous manufacture of much stronger drinks by distillation was unknown on the Australian mainland. However, following contact with Pacific Island and Southeast Asian peoples in the 19th century, Islanders in the Torres Strait adopted techniques for fermenting and distilling what became a quasi-indigenous alcoholic drink known as tuba. This paper discusses the historical process of the diffusion of this substance as a result of labour migration and internationalisation in the Strait, and provides present-day accounts of tuba production from Torres Strait Islanders.</p>","PeriodicalId":45229,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF PACIFIC HISTORY","volume":"45 3","pages":"315-30"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2010-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/00223344.2010.530811","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"29637804","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Colonialism, Capitalism and Nationalism in the US Navy's Expulsion of Guam's Spanish Catholic Priests, 1898–1900","authors":"Anne Perez Hattori","doi":"10.1080/00223340903356856","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00223340903356856","url":null,"abstract":"In August 1899, US Naval and Marine forces arrived on Guam to establish an American military government that would replace more than two centuries of Spanish colonial rule. Within the first month of Captain Richard Leary's term as naval governor, he directed a number of decisive actions specifically against the Roman Catholic Church. These included a ban on the annual celebration of village fiestas, a prohibition on the ringing of church bells and, most dramatically, the expulsion of the island's Spanish priests. While the existing scholarship interprets these events as political actions to establish a uniquely American governmental system that enforces the separation of Church and State, this paper interrogates an additional array of intersecting economic and cultural issues to tell a story about some of the desires and anxieties regarding colonialism, capitalism, and nationalism in the Pacific.","PeriodicalId":45229,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF PACIFIC HISTORY","volume":"44 1","pages":"281 - 302"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2009-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/00223340903356856","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"59022365","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The Struggle to Establish Islam in Papua New Guinea (1976–83)","authors":"Scott Flower","doi":"10.1080/00223340903356823","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00223340903356823","url":null,"abstract":"A vast literature about the religions and histories of Papua New Guinea (PNG) exists, but less than a handful of items mention the history of Islam or Muslims in PNG. This paper contributes to an initial attempt to establish a comprehensive historical account of Islam in PNG's broader history by detailing the formal establishment of Islam there from 1976 to 1983. Beginning with Islam's expatriate Muslim founders, it examines the challenges and events that led to the religion's institutionalisation and consolidation. This period of early effort provided the basis for a self-sustaining and, of late, growing religion. The ideational, material and migratory effects of globalisation and decolonisation appear as factors in the growth of Islam in PNG, despite persistent Christian resistance to its presence. The paper draws upon numerous unpublished archival records and interview data collected during fieldwork to PNG in 2007.","PeriodicalId":45229,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF PACIFIC HISTORY","volume":"44 1","pages":"241 - 260"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2009-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/00223340903356823","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"59022288","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Changing the Image of the Southern Pacific:","authors":"Michiel van Groesen","doi":"10.1080/00223340902900845","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00223340902900845","url":null,"abstract":"In 1601, Olivier van Noort was the first Dutch explorer to successfully complete the circumnavigation of the world, in the wake of such illustrious adventurers as Magellan, Drake and Cavendish. His success once again reminded English and Iberian rivals that the recently established Dutch Republic had arrived on the colonial scene, where it would play an important role for centuries to come. For his voyage around the world in 1598, Van Noort — like his predecessors — directed his fleet of four vessels in a westerly direction. After traversing the Strait of Magellan, he remained close to the coast of South America before crossing the Pacific in a more or less straight route towards the Philippines. He sailed by the Mariana Islands, and then encountered a hostile Spanish fleet off the coast of Manila that forced him to head south for Bantam. Van Noort’s account, published soon after his return to Rotterdam, only very cursorily reported on his experiences in the Pacific. By the time of the second Dutch circumnavigation, the situation in Asia had changed profoundly. The Dutch East India Company (VOC), established in 1602, enjoyed a monopoly on trade in the area reached by rounding the Cape of Good Hope or by passing through the Strait of Magellan. Potential competitors in the Dutch Republic, like the Amsterdam merchant Isaac Le Maire, could only watch in agony how the statesponsored company made huge profits by cornering the international trade in pepper and spices. In 1614, Le Maire founded his own maritime company, the Australische Compagnie, in order to find a second western route to Asia, one not covered in the patent of the VOC. He financed a small fleet of two ships, the Eendracht and the Hoorn, and appointed his son Jacob Le Maire and the experienced captain Willem Cornelisz Schouten as leaders of the venture. Only the Eendracht (‘Unity’) rounded Cape Horn passing through Le Maire Strait, thus avoiding the Strait of Magellan, and eventually arrived in Batavia where the bullish governor-general Jan Pietersz Coen confiscated its","PeriodicalId":45229,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF PACIFIC HISTORY","volume":"44 1","pages":"77 - 87"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2009-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/00223340902900845","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"59022463","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Tokelau:: a Sort of ‘Self-governing’ Sort of ‘Colony’","authors":"Antony Hooper","doi":"10.1080/00223340802499625","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00223340802499625","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45229,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF PACIFIC HISTORY","volume":"50 1","pages":"331-339"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2008-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/00223340802499625","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"59022387","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}