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The Peruvian slavers in Tuvalu, 1863 : how many did they kidnap ?
No full textMunro Doug. The Peruvian slavers in Tuvalu, 1863 : how many did they kidnap ?. In: Journal de la Société des océanistes, 90, 1990-1. pp. 43-46
The Ocean Island (Banaba) and Nauru labour trade 1900-1940
No full textShlomowitz Ralph, Munro Doug. The Ocean Island (Banaba) and Nauru labour trade 1900-1940. In: Journal de la Société des océanistes, 94, 1992-1. pp. 103-117
Munro Doug & Thornley Andrew (eds.), 1996. The covenant makers. Islander missionaries in the Pacific
No full textAngleviel Frédéric. Munro Doug & Thornley Andrew (eds.), 1996. The covenant makers. Islander missionaries in the Pacific. In: Journal de la Société des océanistes, 108, 1999-1. pp. 153-155
Munro Doug & Thornley Andrew (eds.), 1996. The covenant makers. Islander missionaries in the Pacific
No full textAngleviel Frédéric. Munro Doug & Thornley Andrew (eds.), 1996. The covenant makers. Islander missionaries in the Pacific. In: Journal de la Société des océanistes, 108, 1999-1. pp. 153-155
Compagnie et consulat : lois germaniques et emploi des travailleurs sur les plantations de Samoa, 1864-1914
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Compagnie et Consulat.
Plantation development in Samoa until the outbreak of the First World War was overwhelmingly dominated by the Hamburg firm of J. C. Godeffroy & Sohn and their commercial successor, the DHPG. Far from being a triumph of free enterprise capitalism, the company's Samoan plantations were only successful because the directors in Berlin and the managers on-the-spot so assiduously and successfully courted state support. During the 1860s and 1870s the local company manager doubled as the German consul, and operated in the absence of any regulations covering the imported labour force. Even when protective legislation was introduced between 1882 and 1884 the material conditions of labourers on the DHPG's plantations deteriorated. Since the DHPG plantations constituted Germany's sole political claim to Samoa, a succession of German consuls (by now a post for a career diplomat) functioned as the official arm of the firm and they worked to ensure its survival in the face of critical labour shortages and severe profitability constraints. Consular co-operation involved easing the company's labour crisis, minimising its labour costs and by endorsing a system of harsh discipline, and was reinforced by the company directors lobbying their political and personal contacts in the Colonial Department of the Foreign Office, and sometimes even the Chancellor himself. Even after the hoisting of the German flag over the western islands of Samoa in 1900, official policy continued in the DHPG's favour. Annexation was followed by an influx of smaller cacao and rubber plantation companies and individual planters who languished while the DHPG prospered in the circumstances of privileged access to New Guinea labour. Other planters had to employ expensive Chinese labour, and they attributed their problems to Governor Wilhelm Soif s partiality towards the DHPG. But Solf survived their attacks and the status quo continued, in part because he was supported the company which dominated German Samoa and which wielded most influence in Berlin, the DHPG. The paper concludes by suggesting that although the DHPG grew up under the shelter of massive state and government support and was harsh in its treatment of labourers, parallels are to be found in the British Pacific. Depending on wider political and economic circumstances, the British labour trade could display all the abuses of its German counterpart.Firth Stewart, Munro Doug. Compagnie et consulat : lois germaniques et emploi des travailleurs sur les plantations de Samoa, 1864-1914. In: Journal de la Société des océanistes, 91, 1990-2. pp. 115-134
History Wars
Full text linkIn 1993, Manning Clark came under severe (posthumous) attack in the pages of Quadrant by none other than Peter Ryan, who had published five of the six volumes of Clark's epic A History of Australia. In applying what he called "an overdue axe to a tall poppy", Ryan lambasted the History as “an imposition on Australian credulity” and declared its author a fraud, both as a historian and a person. This unprecedented public assault by a publisher on his best-selling author was a sensation at the time and remains lodged in the public memory. In History Wars, Doug Munro forensically examines the right and wrongs of Ryan’s allegations, concluding that Clark was more sinned against than sinning and that Ryan repeatedly misrepresented the situation. More than just telling a story, Munro places the Ryan-Clark controversy within the context of Australia’s History Wars. This book is an illuminating saga of that ongoing contest.’ — James Curran, University of Sydney ‘The Ryan-Clark controversy … speaks to the place of Manning Clark in Australia’s national imagination. Had Ryan taken his axe to another historian, it’s unlikely that we would be still talking about it 30 years later. But Clark was the author and keeper of Australia’s national story, however imperfect his scholarship and however blinkered that story. Few, if any, historians in the Anglo-American world have occupied the space that Clark occupied by dint of will, force of personality, and felicity of pen.’ — Donald Wright, University of New Brunswic
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