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Published: 30 November 2012
...This chapter discusses Australian sovereignty. When compared to that of Canada and the United States of America, colonization came relatively late to the Indigenous peoples of Australia, who have never ceded sovereignty over the Indigenous countries that make up the Australia of the twenty-first...
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Published: 27 July 2009
... transferred to the Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum. The Hawaiian case is remarkable in that it represents a situation in which a Native-led government adopted the institution of the museum as a cultural strategy to resist colonization by a foreign power, impede an internal revolution spearheaded by non-Native...
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Published: 30 September 2013
... of the “cultural phenomenon” of the Masta Liu youth subculture, along with its implications for kastom. It shows that colonization gave rise to artificial boundaries in complete disregard of precolonial affinities and relationships and that the processes of pacification, missionization...
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Published online: 17 November 2016
Published in print: 22 July 2010
...This book strives to make sense of haole (white person/whiteness in Hawaii) and “the politics of haole” in current debates about race in Hawaii. Recognizing it as a form of American whiteness specific to Hawaii, the book argues that haole was forged and reforged over two centuries of colonization...
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Published: 09 December 2008
...This chapter examines the impact of colonization on merchant shipping companies, seafaring employment, and crewing in the Pacific Islands. It first looks at foreign merchant companies that competed against each other but cooperated when it was advantageous against island producers; these include...
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Published: 31 October 2008
... for these goals, it first examines written sources in order to understand the history of Manchurian colonization by the emigrants from Nagano. history Ina Valley Manchu memory Nagano agrarianism nōhon shugi Association of Japanese Farmers Nihon Nōmin Kyōkai bandits Dalian Agricultural Company Dairen Nōgyō...
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Published: 30 April 2011
...This chapter focuses on the Marshallese and the Chuukese—the largest of the eight U.S.-associated Micronesian subgroups—as they have had significant social, economic, health, and political impact on Hawaiʻi. The last seventy-five years of colonization, westernization, and globalization in Chuuk...
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Published: 30 November 2011
... and the ownership of coconuts. French colony colonization France New Caledonia Eugène Vieillard Èmile Deplanche Louis Thiercelin France took possession of New Caledonia sixty years after the visit to Balade by d’Entrecasteaux. The beginnings of colonialism in New Caledonia, following the prise de...
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Published online: 17 November 2016
Published in print: 31 October 2011
... for Chiri and her fellow Ainu of the Japanese colonization of Hokkaido and the Meiji and Taisho governments' policies of assimilation. Chiri's receipt of the narratives in the Horobetsu dialect from her grandmother and aunt (both traditional performers) and the fact that no native speakers of that dialect...
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Published online: 17 November 2016
Published in print: 31 October 2008
... conceptions have overlooked the disastrous impact of colonization and resurrected the utopian justification for creating Manchukuo, as the puppet state was known. This re-remembering, the book argues, constitutes a source of friction between China and Japan today. The book tells the compelling story of both...
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Published: 30 June 2011
... Moluccas Spice Islands Portugal Portuguese Russia Russians Submarines Trade winds Philip II Fish fishing Rats Scurvy Guam history colonization Ferdinand Magellan Guam geography international affairs Guam became the first inhabited island in the Pacific Ocean known to Europeans when Ferdinand...
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Published: 15 July 2010
... in the colonial encounter. The relationship between the creation of ch'angguk and Korea's colonization by Japan is a particularly heated issue. The chapter connects it with the broader debate, often polarized between foreign and Korean writers, over Japan's role in implanting or (on the contrary...
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Published: 25 March 2008
...; serious colonizing began in 1668. On August 12, 1898, a protocol was signed Spain agreed to give up Cuba, cede Puerto Rico and Guam to the United States, and permit the United States to occupy the city, bay, and harbor at Manila pending a peace treaty to determine the control, disposition, and government...
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Published: 22 July 2010
...This chapter contextualizes haole historically and politically as a colonial, and now neocolonial, form of American whiteness. It argues that it is impossible to understand haole without understanding something about Hawaii's history of colonization. The goal is not to give a full accounting...
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Published: 31 October 2008
...This chapter first discusses the memories of the Japanese colonization of Manchuria that were recounted by ordinary Chinese people and then published in the cultural and historical documents collections. These authors and interviewees—farmers during the Manchukuo era—lived, at the time they were...
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Published: 22 January 2013
..., in the larger process of cultural colonization and medical imperialism that was at work in the Hawaiian Kingdom. The Kānaka Maoli experience with leprosy resulted in the removal of its victims from their families and communities. For the Hawaiian Islands, it was as much a matter of depopulation by displacement...
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Published: 30 April 2013
..., the history of Micronesia is discussed, from the time it was first settled by seafarers from Taiwan, to the 1500s when the islands began appearing on western maps. Colonization of the islands commenced in 1885, first by Spain, followed by Germany and Japan. The islands were surrendered by Japan to the United...
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Published: 31 August 2008
...This chapter outlines the historical impact of colonization and the resulting complex of interlocking oppressions. To add to the discussion, the chapter introduces the concept of “victim blaming” to illustrate attempts to change the consequences of past injustices—that is, change the victims...
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Published: 20 February 2008
... ethnographies. Mead, whose Pacific ethnographies are marked by denial of Euro-American imperialism's effects, was unable to refute colonization's impact on the “Antlers.” Indeed, the book's little reception reflects both the difficulties America had in coming to terms with its internal empire and Mead's...
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Published online: 17 November 2016
Published in print: 30 September 2013
... of their respective peoples in the historical processes of colonization, development, and nation-building. Uneven development, relative deprivation and rapid socioeconomic and cultural change are highlighted as salient structural causes of the unrest....