Paradise Past The Transformation of the South Pacific, 1520-1920
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Beschreibung
Produktdetails
Einband
Taschenbuch
Erscheinungsdatum
24.10.2012
Verlag
McFarlandSeitenzahl
298
Maße (L/B/H)
25.4/17.8/1.7 cm
Gewicht
565 g
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN
978-0-7864-6978-9
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.
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