The Tropical Frontier: America's South Sea Colony

Name: The Tropical Frontier: America's South Sea Colony
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ISBN: 9780980033151

ISBN-10: 0980033152

ISBN-13: 9780980033151

Edition: 2009

Authors: Joseph Kennedy

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For more than two thousand years the Samoan Islands were among the most forgotten places on earth, but by the late nineteenth century they suddenly attracted the attention of some of the most powerful nations on the globe. Germany and the United Kingdom became interested in the western islands, but it was the U.S. that eventually obtained suzerainty over Pago Pago harbor on the island of Tutuila in the east and began its one and only South Seas colonial experiment. In the Pacific and elsewhere, native populations have traditionally and actively sought independence from their invasive colonial co-partners or have, at the very least, passively but begrudgingly tolerated them. But the…

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List price: $35.00
Copyright year: 2009
Publisher: Univ of Hawaii Pr
Binding: Cloth Text
Pages: 245
Size: 7.25" wide x 10.00" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.936
Language: English