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School of History, Philosophy, Political Science and International Relations Te Hunga Aro Whakamuri

History Programme 2007 Trimester 1

HIST 111: COLONIAL ENCOUNTERS: PACIFIC EXPERIENCES CRN 7520

TABLE OF CONTENTS Page

Course Information iv Course Objectives v Assessment vi Lecture Programme x Tutorial Programme xi

Week 2: Don Garden, Australia, New Zealand and the Pacific: An Environmental History, ABCClio, Santa Barbara, 2005, pp.1223, 3645 1 Hau’ofa, Epeli, ‘Our Sea of Islands’, The Contemporary Pacific, vol. 6, 1, 1994, pp. 148161 12

Week 3: Ian C. Campbell, ‘Polynesian Perceptions of Europeans in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries’, Pacific Studies, 5, 2, 1982, pp.6480 19 J. R. McNeill, ‘Of Rats and Men: a synoptic environmental history of the Pacific Island’, Journal of World History, 5, 2, 1994, pp.299349 36

Week 4: Deborah Montgomerie, 'Beyond the search for good imperialism: the challenge of comparative ethnohistory', NZJH, 31, 1, 1997, pp.15368 62 Cook, James, The Journals of Captain James Cook on his voyages of discovery, 1, J. C. Beaglehole (ed.), Cambridge, 1955, pp. 123136, 278287, 395399 71 Tim Flannery, (ed), Watkin Tench, 1788, Melbourne, 1996, pp.134150 87 Banks, Joseph, ‘Thoughts on the manners of Otaheite’ in J.C. Beaglehole (ed.), The Endeavour Journal of Joseph Banks: 17681771, 2, Sydney,


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1962, pp.330334 96 Darwin, Charles, The works of Charles Darwin, Paul H. Barrett & R.B. Freeman (ed.), 1. Diary of the Voyage of H.M.S Beagle, by Nora Barlow (ed) (1933), London, 1986, pp.327341 99

Week 5: Ian C. Campbell, ‘British Treaties with Polynesians in the Nineteenth Century’ in W Renwick, (ed), Sovereignty and Indigenous Rights: the Treaty of Waitangi in international contexts, VUP, Wellington, 1991, pp. 6782, 224227 107 Curthoys, Ann, ‘Does Australian History have a Future?’, Australian Historical Studies, 33, 118, 2002, pp.140152 118 Denoon, Donald and Philippa MeinSmith (with Marivic Wyndham), A History of Australia, New Zealand and the Pacific, Oxford, 2000, pp.17 121 Howe, K.R., ‘Two Worlds?’, NZJH, 37,1, 2003, pp.5061 125

Week 6: Patricia Grimshaw, ‘New England missionary wives, Hawaiian women and “The Cult of True Womanhood”’, Margaret Jolly & Martha Macintyre, (eds), Family and Gender in the Pacific, CUP, Cambridge, 1989, pp. 1944 129 Moorehead, A., The Fatal Impact: An Account of the Invasion of the South Pacific, 17671840, London, 1966. Selected pages. 143 Howe, K.R., ‘The fate of the ‘savage’ in Pacific Historiography’, NZJH, 11, 1977, pp. 137154 156 Reynolds, Henry, The Other Side of the Frontier, Penguin, Ringwood, 1982, pp.14, 96113, 121125, 212215 166

Week 7: John Harris, One Blood, Albatross Books, Sutherland NSW, (1990) 1994, pp. 2336, 8385 182

Week 8: Dorothy Shineberg, ‘The Sandalwood Trade in Melanesian Economics, 184165’, The Journal of Pacific History, 1, 1966, pp.129146 191 Claudia Knapman, ‘Western women’s travel writings about the Pacific Islands’, Pacific Studies, 20, 2, 1997, pp.3151 201

Week 9: Richard Broome, ‘Cultural resistance amidst destruction’, Aboriginal Australians: black responses to white dominance, 17882001, Third Edition, Allen & Unwin, NSW, 2002, pp. 5672, 296297 212 Lydia Wevers, ‘Swells’ sons run out: the travel writing of rovers, ramblers and adventurers’, Country of Writing: Travel Writing and New Zealand, 18091900, Bridget Williams Book, AUP, Auckland, 2002, chapter 3, pp. 6195, 213215 222

Week 10: P. Hempenstall and N. Rutherford, Protest and Dissent in the Colonial Pacific, Suva: IPS, USP, 1984, pp.715 242 David Williams, Te Kooti Tango Whenua: The Native Land Court 18641909, Huia Publishers, Wellington, 1999, pp. 6376 247 Heather Goodall, Invasion to Embassy: Land in Aboriginal politics in New South Wales, 17701972, Allen & Unwin, Sydney, 1996, pp. 115124 255 Alain Saussol, ‘New Caledonia. Colonization and Reaction’, in R. Crocombe, ed., Land Tenure in the Pacific, Suva: University of the South Pacific, 3 rd . ed., 1987 (1 st ed. 1971), pp. 240253, 259260 261


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Week 11: Giselle Byrnes, ‘Jackals of the Crown? Historians and the Treaty Claims Process’ in Bronwyn Dalley & Jock Phillips, (eds), Going Public: the Changing Face of New Zealand History, AUP, Auckland, 2001, Chapter 6 269 Bain Attwood and Andrew Markus (eds.), The Struggle for Aboriginal Rights: A Documentary History,Allen and Unwin, Sydney, 1999, pp. 8089 276

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School of History, Philosophy, Political Science and International Relations Te Hunga Aro Whakamuri

History Programme 2007 Trimester 1

HIST 111: COLONIAL ENCOUNTERS: PACIFIC EXPERIENCES CRN 7520

COURSE INFORMATION

Course coordinator Dr Kate Hunter, OK 417, ext. 6763, email: [email protected]

Lecturers Dr Kate Hunter, Rm OK 417, ext. 6763, email: [email protected] Dr Adrian Muckle, Rm OK 426, ext. 6773, email: [email protected]

Tutors To be announced at the first lecture.

Lectures Tuesday & Thursday 12.10 1.00 pm, Maclaurin Lecture Theatre 103 (MC 103)

Office Hours Office Hours are times outside of class when your tutor and lecturers are available to discuss aspects of the course and the assessment. These will be announced in the first week of term.

If you have queries about this course, your tutor will have office hours during which they are available to answer your questions. Your tutor may suggest you see the Course Coordinator, who also has Office Hours for student consultation.

Additional Information about this course will be posted on the official departmental notice board (fourth floor of Old Kirk). Material will also be posted outside Rm OK 417, where any handouts used in class and tutorials will also be available and on Blackboard

COURSE AIMS

HIST 111 aims to introduce students to the discipline of history through the study of the comparative colonial experiences in Australia and the Pacific Islands. Assessment exercises and tutorials will introduce students to debates between historians and to the skills historians employ. These include research, bibliographic, oral and writing skills, as well as the ability to analyse evidence and critique arguments.

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COURSE CONTENT

This course focuses on the historical experiences of indigenous societies in Australia and the Pacific Islands, including New Zealand, and considers the ways in which these societies interacted and engaged with, and resisted the presence of European colonizers over the course of the nineteenth century. Ranging from precontact societies through to the early twentieth century, the course explores themes such as the impact of disease and trade; the tensions between agency and fatalism; the impact of Christianity and the missions; and patterns of indigenous resistance, struggle, loss and recovery. The relationship between colonizers and colonized will be presented with attention to a comparative historical framework.

LEVEL OBJECTIVES

All 100level History courses share the following objectives: 1. To introduce students to broad processes of change over time; 2. To give students a sense of the forces that have shaped and determined

the development of their own and other societies; 3. To develop skills of analysis and argument using historical materials,

in particular, to encourage students to read historical material accurately and with discrimination; to introduce students to the nature of evidence and the problems of handling it; to give students a sense of the important of debate and interpretation to the discipline;

4. To ensure that students have basic skills of library usage appropriate to the discipline, including an understanding of the catalogue of other finding aids;

5. To develop skills in the written presentation of historical materials; 6. To encourage students to participate verbally in tutorials.

COURSE OBJECTIVES

By the end of HIST 111, students should be able to:

1. RECOGNISE a variety of ways of telling histories and making sense of the past;

2. DEMONSTRATE an understanding of how colonial relationships affected peoples in the Pacific region;

3. EXAMINE the dynamics of cultural interactions and its repercussions; 4. IDENTIFY and EXECUTE the steps of the research process, including:

a) LOCATE, IDENTIFY and RETRIEVE a variety of materials in the library;

b) ANALYSE and EVALUATE conflicting arguments and opinions; c) PRESENT ideas in a succinct and logical manner; d) FORMULATE arguments; e) EMPLOY the referencing tools of footnotes and bibliography;

5. DEMONSTRATE the ability to work both individually and cooperatively.

Some of these objectives are contentfocused, and some are skillsfocused. They will all be taught and tested through the assessment tasks.

BACKGROUND READING

Ian C. Campbell, Worlds Apart: A History of the Pacific Islands, Christchurch: Canterbury University Press, 2003. (NB An earlier edition of this book is available as Ian C. Campbell, A History of the Pacific Islands, Christchurch, 1989.)

Kerry Howe, Where the waves fall: a new South Sea Islands history from first settlement to colonial rule, Allen & Unwin, Sydney, 1984.

Richard Broome, Aboriginal Australians: black responses to white dominance, 17882001, third edition, Allen & Unwin, New South Wales, 2002 (you may also use the second edition published in 1994).

Stuart Macintyre, A Concise History of Australia, CUP, Cambridge, 1999.

Ann McGrath, ed, Contested Ground: Australian Aborigines Under the British Crown, Allen & Unwin, Sydney, 1995.

Judith Binney, Judith Bassett and Erik Olssen, Te Tangata me te Whenua The People and the Land, Allen and Unwin, Wellington, 1990


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ESSENTIAL TEXTS

• HIST 111 Book of Readings • Writing History Essays

Both of these texts are available from Student Notes. Students can order textbooks and student notes online at www.vicbooks.co.nz, or email an order or enquiry to [email protected].

Vicbooks can courier books to customers or they can be picked up from either shop the day after placing an order online. Their telephone numbers are:

Kelburn: 463 5515 Pipitea: 463 6160 Opening hours: 8am – 6pm Mon – Fri (during term time) 10am – 1pm Saturday

Writing History Essays is also available as a pdf file at: http://www.vuw.ac.nz/history/degrees/index.aspx in the righthand box.

RECOMMENDED TEXTS

These texts are available at the Victoria Book Centre. They are recommended texts only, and are also available in the VUW library.

Ian C. Campbell, Worlds Apart: A History of the Pacific Islands, Christchurch: Canterbury University Press, 2003. (NB An earlier edition of this book is available as Campbell, I.C. A History of the Pacific Islands, Christchurch, 1989.)

Richard Broome, Aboriginal Australians: black responses to white dominance, 17882001, third edition, Allen & Unwin, New South Wales, 2002 (you may also use the second edition published in 1994).

ASSESSMENT

Students are required to gain an overall grade of C (50) for the work specified as contributing to this final grade. This course involves four assignments:

Further details of all assignments will be distributed during the course.

• LIBRARY EXERCISE (25% of final grade). This task is specifically designed to ensure you LOCATE, identify and retrieve a variety of materials in the library, ANALYSE and EVALUATE arguments and opinions, EMPLOY the referencing tools of footnotes and bibliography.

This exercise is due: MONDAY 26 March by 6pm at History Office (4 th floor Old Kirk)

• RESEARCH PROJECT (25% of final grade). This task is designed to assist you to IDENTIFY and EXECUTE the steps of the research process.

This project is due on MONDAY 30 April by 6pm at History Office (4 th floor Old Kirk)

• ESSAY of 1,500 words (25% of final grade). This task is linked to all of the above objectives.

This essay is due:MONDAY 21 MAY by 6pm at History Office

• PORTFOLIO (25% of final grade). This portfolio emphasises your skills in RECOGNISING a variety of ways of telling histories and making sense of the past. It comprises work carried out through the trimester and some reflective statements.

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This review is due: FRIDAY 8 June by 6pm at History Office. There are NO EXTENSIONS for this piece of work.

TE REO MAORI It is University policy to accept assignments in Te Reo Maori. The Faculty arranges for the translation of assignments. If you intend to submit assignments in Te Reo Maori please let the course coordinator know in advance so that translation can be arranged.

EXTENSIONS AND PENALTIES Extensions are available from the Course Coordinator before the due date of submission. Extensions are given, for example, in cases of illness, bereavement, and in some cases of serious family or personal problems affecting a student. Extension forms are available at the History Programme office or from your tutor.

Students will be penalized for late submission of essays a deduction of 5% for the first day late and 2% thereafter for a maximum of 8 days: thereafter work can be accepted for mandatory course requirements but will not be marked. Please Note: A student who has obtained an overall mark of 50% or more, but failed to satisfy a mandatory requirement for a course, will receive a K grade for that course, while a course mark less than 50% will result in the appropriate fail grade (D, E or F).

MANDATORY REQUIREMENTS FOR PASSING THE COURSE 1. To pass the course each student must:

a) Complete ALL assignments specified for this course, on or by the specified dates (subject to such provisions as are stated for late submission of work);

and b) Attend at least 8 tutorials;

Faculty guidelines require you to attend 75% of tutorials. Extra absences will result in a student failing the course, except in cases of

serious illness (supported by a medical certificate), or serious personal crisis. THERE IS NO PROVISION IN THIS COURSE FOR MAKE UPS TO COMPENSATE FOR ADDITIONAL ABSENCES EXCEPT UNDER THOSE CIRCUMSTANCES. You should allow for the possibility of unforeseen illness when using up your quota of permissible absences.

2. The FINAL DATE on which any written work can be accepted by the History Programme is FRIDAY 8 JUNE. The provision for late submission with a penalty does not apply beyond this date. Permission to submit work after that date must be sought in writing from the Head of Programme, and will only be granted for serious medical reasons (supported by a medical certificate), or in case of serious personal crisis

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The University defines plagiarism as follows: Plagiarism is presenting someone else's work as if it were your own, whether you mean to or not.

‘Someone else’s work’ means anything that is not your own idea, even if it is presented in your own style. It includes material from books, journals or any other printed source, the work of other students or staff, information from the Internet, software programmes and other electronic material, designs and ideas. It also includes the organization or structuring of any such material.

Plagiarism is not worth the risk. Any enrolled student found guilty of plagiarism will be subject to disciplinary procedures under the Statute on Student Conduct ( www.vuw.ac.nz/policy/studentconduct) and may be penalized severely. Consequences of being found guilty of plagiarism can include: • an oral or written warning

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• suspension from class or university • cancellation of your mark for an assessment or a fail grade for the

course. Find out more about plagiarism and how to avoid it, on the University’s website at: www.vuw.ac.nz/home/studying/plagiarism.html.

AEGROTATS Please note that under the revised Examination Statute (Sections 610) students may now apply for an aegrotat pass in respect of any item of assessment falling within the last three weeks before the day on which lectures cease. In the case of first trimester courses in 2007 the starting point for this period is Monday 14 May.

The following rules apply: • Where a student is not able to sit a test falling within these last three

weeks because of illness or injury etc., an alternative test will be arranged where possible. If the student has completed in the view of the coursesupervisor, sufficient marked assessment relevant to the objectives of the course, an average mark may be offered. Where a student has an essay or other piece of assessment due in the last three weeks, and has a medical certificate or other appropriate documentation, the student will be given an extension.

• If none of the above is available to the student eg., if he/she has an ongoing illness, then an aegrotat will be considered. See Examination Statute 610 for a full explanation of the rules governing the provision of aegrotats in these circumstances.

WORKLOAD In accordance with Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences Guidelines, this course has been constructed on the assumption that students will devote 12 hours per week to HIST 111. This includes two hours of lectures plus a one hour tutorial per week.

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Academic grievances

If you have any academic problems with your course you should talk to the tutor or lecturer concerned; class representatives may be able to help you in this. If you are not satisfied with the result of that meeting, see the Head of School or the relevant Associate Dean; VUWSA Education Coordinators are available to assist in this process. If, after trying the above channels, you are still unsatisfied, formal grievance procedures can be invoked. These are set out in the Academic Grievance Policy which is published on the VUW website at:

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Academic integrity is about honesty – put simply it means no cheating. All members of the University community are responsible for upholding academic integrity, which means staff and students are expected to behave honestly, fairly and with respect for others at all times.

Plagiarism is a form of cheating which undermines academic integrity. The University defines plagiarism as follows:

The presentation of the work of another person or other persons as if it were one’s own, whether intended or not. This includes published or unpublished work, material on the Internet and the work of other students or staff.

It is still plagiarism even if you restructure the material or present it in your own style or words.

Note: It is however, perfectly acceptable to include the work of others as long as that is acknowledged by appropriate referencing.

Plagiarism is prohibited at Victoria and is not worth the risk. Any enrolled student found guilty of plagiarism will be subject to disciplinary procedures under the Statute on Student Conduct and may be penalized severely. Consequences of being found guilty of plagiarism can include:

• an oral or written warning • cancellation of your mark for an assessment or a fail grade for the

course • suspension from the course or the University.

Find out more about plagiarism, and how to avoid it, on the University’s website:

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may wish to approach a Student Adviser from Disability Support Services (DSS) to discuss your individual needs and the available options and support on a confidential basis. DSS are located on Level 1, Robert Stout Building:

telephone: 4636070 email: [email protected]

The Disability Liaison Person for the History Programme is Giacomo Lichtner, tel. 463 6756 or email [email protected] Student Support

Staff at Victoria want students to have positive learning experiences at the University. Each faculty has a designated staff member who can either help you directly if your academic progress is causing you concern, or quickly put you in contact with someone who can. In the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences the support contact is Dr Allison Kirkman, Murphy Building, room 407. Assistance for specific groups is also available from the Kaiwawao Maori, Manaaki Pihipihinga or Victoria International.

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Manaaki Pihipihinga Maori and Pacific Mentoring programme

1 Academic mentoring for all Maori & Pacific students at all levels of under graduate study for the faculties of Commerce & Administration and Humanities & Social sciences. Contact ManaakiPihipihinga [email protected] or phone 463 6015 to register for Humanities & Social Science mentoring and 463 8977 to register for mentoring for Commerce and Administration courses

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2. Post graduate support network for the above faculties, which links students into all of the post grad activities and workshops on campus and networking opportunities

3 Pacific Support Coordinator who can assist Pacific students with transitional issues, disseminate useful information and provide any assistance needed to help students achieve. Contact; PacificSupport[email protected] or phone 463 5842

We are located at: 14 Kelburn Parade back court yard Room 109 D (for Humanities mentoring & some first year commerce mentoring) or Room 210 level 2 west wing railway station Pipitea (commerce mentoring space). Maori Studies mentoring is done at the marae. Pop in and see us to register with the programme (and use our study spaces and computer suites and free cups of tea and coffee while you study)

Pacific students at Victoria University can access the Pacific Support Coordinator, who can assist them with their transition into University life, as well as help them cope with issues that affect their study. The Pacific Support Coordinator also disseminates information on services that can provide them with various forms of assistance, and assists Pacific students directly by making appointments for them with the various services that can help. Information on scholarships can also be obtained from the Pacific Support Coordinator.

The Pacific Support Coordinator can be found at Room 212, level 2, West Wing, Pipitea campus on Thursdays 14, and at 14 Kelburn Parade, back court yard, for the rest of the week. Please call in to see him or contact him via the details below if you would like to know how to access the help that is available at VUW for Pacific students.

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HIST 111 LECTURE PROGRAMME

Environments & People 27 Feb Introduction 1 Mar Physical environments 6 Mar Peopling 8 Mar Precontact cultures

First Encounters 13 Mar Exploring Polynesia 15 Mar Exploring Australia

Colonial Frames & Ideologies 20 Mar Colonial boundaries and forms of rule 22 Mar Sovereignties 27 Mar Ideas and ideologies 29 Mar Ideas and ideologies cont’d

Evangelising & Missionaries 3 Apr Christian missions in southeastern Australia 5 Apr Christian missions in the Pacific

Midterm break: 6 April22 April

Conflict 24 Apr Patterns of resistance and indigenous agency 26 Apr tba

Trade & Exchange 1 May Trade and travel in Victoria and NSW 3 May Trade and travel in the Pacific

Protecting and Assimilating 8 May Legislating in the Australian colonies & 10 May in Fiji

Conflict II 15 May ‘Legal’ forms of protest in Australia 17 May The Mau movement in Samoa

Twentiethcentury Legacies 22 May 24 May 29 May

Conclusions 31 May


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HIST 111 TUTORIAL PROGRAMME

Week 1 (beginning Mon 26 Feb) NO TUTORIALS (you will need to sign up for a tutorial this week)

Week 2 (beginning Mon 5 Mar) Perceiving the Pacific

Week 3 (beginning Mon 12 Mar) People and Environments

Week 4 (beginning Mon 19 Mar) Encountering

Week 5 (beginning Mon 26 Mar) Looking across the Pacific

Week 6 (beginning Mon 2 Apr) Colonial frameworks

Week 7 (beginning Mon 23 Apr) Missions

Week 8 (beginning Mon 30 April) Researching and writing

Week 9 (beginning Mon 7 May) Trading OR Travelling

Week 10 (beginning Mon 14 May) Land and power

Week 11 (beginning Mon 21 May) Protest and conflict

Week 12 (beginning Mon 28 May) Legacies

Useful Journals (NZJH) New Zealand Journal of History (JPH) Journal of Pacific History (JPS) Journal of Polynesian Society (TPNZ)I Transactions and Proceedings of the NZ Institute (AHS) Australian Historical Studies Aboriginal History http://www.historycompass.com the Australasia & the Pacific section See Blackboard, External Links page for other useful websites.

Commonly Used Abbreviations JPH Journal of Pacific History JPS Journal of the Polynesian Society NZJH New Zealand Journal of History PS Pacific Studies TCP The Contemporary Pacific AHS Australian Historical Studies

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WEEK 2 (beginning Mon 5 Mar)

Lecture Themes: The Peopling of the Pacific & Precontact cultures

Essential Reading for lecture: Don Garden, Australia, New Zealand and the Pacific: An Environmental History, Santa Barbara, 2005, pp.1223, 3645.

Tutorial: Perceiving the Pacific Essential reading

Hau’ofa, Epeli, ‘Our Sea of Islands’, TCP, Vol. 6, no.1, 1994, pp.148 161.

Tutorial Questions:

1. Why do you think Epeli Hau’ofa’s views might be “disturbing” to some people (as he suggests on p.148)?

2. Identify six keywords that relate closely to this article.

3. Make a list of the words, expressions and concepts the meaning of which is not clear to you. Bring these questions to the tutorial.

4. Hau’ofa is not writing as an historian. But what does he have to say about the legacy of European colonialism in Oceania? What do you think might be the relevance of this analysis to the study of the history of Oceania and/or Australia?

5. What is Hau’ofa talking about when he refers to “culture history” on p.151? What examples of “culture history” can you identify?

PORTFOLIO TASK #1: Find a recent newspaper article from a national newspaper in Australia or NZ (e.g. NZ Herald, Dominion, the Australian, the Sydney Morning Herald, etc.) reporting on a recent development in Oceania? Bring a copy of the article to class and be prepared to discuss and explain the ways in which it may (or may not) contribute to the “belittlement” of Oceania.

Some other questions/tasks that to help you prepare for this tutorial

6. What other terms have been used by Europeans to refer to “Oceania” or the “Pacific Islands”? What ideas are inherent in these terms or the way that they are used?

7. Are there any good reasons for not thinking of NZ and Eastern Australia as a part of Oceania?

Recommended reading:

Denoon, D. and P. MeinSmith with M. Wyndham, A History of Australia, New Zealand and the Pacific, Oxford, 2000, pp.3036.

Fry, Greg, ‘Framing the Islands: knowledge and power in changing Australian images of the South Pacific’, TCP, Vol.9, no.2, 1997, pp.2563.

Further reading:

Hau’ofa, E., ‘The New South Pacific Society: Integration and Independence’, in A. Hooper et.al. (eds), Class and culture in the South Pacific, Suva and Auckland, 1978, pp.112.

Hau’ofa, E., ‘The Ocean in Us’, TCP, Vol.10, 1998, pp.392410.


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WEEK 3 (beginning Mon 12 Mar)

Lecture Themes: Exploring Polynesia & Exploring southeastern Australia

Essential Reading for lecture: Campbell, I.C., ‘Polynesian Perceptions of Europeans in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries’, PS, Vol.5, no.2, 1982, pp.6480.

Tutorial: People & Environments

Review Don Garden

McNeill, J.R., ‘Of Rats and Men: a synoptic environmental history of the Pacific Island’, Journal of World History, Vol.5, no.2, 1994, pp.299349.

Tutorial Questions:

1. Summarise four key points from McNeill. What are three things you learned from this reading?

2. From McNeill & Garden what, broadly speaking, can be said about indigenous people and the environments they inhabited?

3. What does McNeill mean by a ‘portmanteau biota’(p.304)?

4. What does McNeill argue were the main causes of, and what is the main evidence for depopulation in the Pacific?

5. In this course we will come across the differences between plantation colonialism and settler colonialism. What do you think the differences are between those and what does McNeill’s article reveal about them?

6. What kinds of sources are used in environmental histories?

Further reading on people and the environment:

Anderson, Athol, ‘A fragile plenty: PreEuropean Maori and the New Zealand Environment’, in Eric Pawson & Tom Brooking (eds), Environmental Histories of New Zealand, Melbourne, 2002.

Broome, Richard, Aboriginal Australians, chapter 1.

Campbell, I.C., Worlds Apart, ch. 1.

D’Arcy, Paul, The People of the Sea: Environment, Identity and History in Oceania, Honolulu, 2006.

Flood, Josephine, Archaeology of the Dreamtime, Sydney, 1983, pp.2738.

Griffiths, Tom, Forests of Ash: An Environmental History, Melbourne, 2001, chapter 2, ‘Tall trees’.

Howe, K.R., Where the Waves Fall, Honolulu, 1984.

Kirch, P.V., The Evolution of the Polynesian Chiefdoms, Cambridge, 1984, ch 2.

McCoy, P.C., ‘Easter Island’, in J. Jennings (ed.), The Prehistory of Polynesia, Canberra, 1979.

Mulvaney, D. John, The Prehistory of Australia, Ringwood, 1975 (1969), pp.1951.

Ryan, Lyndall, The Aboriginal Tasmanians, Sydney, 1981, pp.4765.

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Week 4 (beginning Mon 19 March)

Lecture Themes: Forms of colonial rule, sovereignties and colonial boundaries

Essential Reading for lecture: Deborah Montgomerie, 'Beyond the search for good imperialism: the challenge of comparative ethnohistory', NZJH, Vol.31, no.1, 1997, pp.15368.

Tutorial: Encounters in Polynesia

Primary documents from Research Project

Core Reading:

Cook, James, The Journals of Captain James Cook on his voyages of discovery, vol.1, J. C. Beaglehole (ed.), Cambridge, 1955, pp. 123136 (on Tahiti) OR 278287 (on NZ) and 395399 (on NSW).

And either

Watkin Tench, 1788, Tim Flannery (ed.), pp.134150 (or Cptn Watkin Tench, Sydney’s First Four Years, (Sydney, 1965), pp.4653, +editor’s notes pp.102107)

or

Banks, Joseph, ‘Thoughts on the manners of Otaheite’ in J.C. Beaglehole (ed.), The Endeavour Journal of Joseph Banks: 17681771, vol. 2, Sydney, 1962, pp.330334.

or

Darwin, Charles, The works of Charles Darwin, Paul H. Barrett & R.B. Freeman (ed.), Vol. 1. Diary of the Voyage of H.M.S Beagle, edited by Nora Barlow (1933), London, 1986, pp..327341.

And review Campbell from last week

Supporting Reading (advised if you are writing your essay on this topic):

Newell, Jenny, ‘Pacific Travelers: The islanders who voyaged with Cook’, CommonPlace, www.commonplace.org, Vol.5, no.2, 2005, pp.13.

Salmond, Anne, The Trial of the Cannibal Dog: Captain Cook in the South Seas, Auckland, 2004, pp.108139.

Tutorial Questions:

Make notes on your readings and come prepared to discuss their content, what you found interesting in them and what was difficult about these sources.

1. What are some of the features in common of the accounts you read? What are some of the differences?

2. What kinds of men are Tench, Banks and Darwin do you think? What do they value or believe? What do they see as positive and negative in indigenous culture?

3. If you read Darwin’s diary, what changes seem to have taken place between Cook’s visit in 1770 and Darwin’s in 1835? Do Cook and Darwin write in significantly different ways about Maori?

4. How do these documents illuminate local conditions in each of these destinations? What problems might there be with this evidence?

5. What kinds of changes in Polynesian perceptions of Europeans does Campbell describe?

6. Is there anything in the article by Campbell that helps you better understand the events described by Cook, Banks, Tench or Darwin?

PORTFOLIO TASK #2: Later in the course return to this question in the light of your research and write up the question below as a portfolio entry

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Further reading on encounters:

Banks, Joseph, The Endeavour journal of Joseph Banks : 17681771, 2 vols, J.C. Beaglehole (ed.), Sydney, 1962.

Bougainville, LouisAntoine, A voyage round the world. Performed by order of His Most Christian Majesty, in the years 1766, 1767, 1768, and 1769, John Reinhold Forster (trans), London, 1772 [electronic resource].

Broome, Richard, Aboriginal Australians, pp.1339.

Campbell, I.C., ‘Savages Noble and Ignoble: the Perceptions of Early European Voyagers to Polynesia’, PS, Vol.4, no.1, 1980, pp.4549.

Campbell, I.C., Worlds Apart…, ch.3.

Cook, James, The Journals of Captain James Cook on his voyages of discovery, 4 vols, J. C. Beaglehole (ed.), Cambridge, 1955 1974.

Daws, Gavan, 'Kealakekua Bay Revisited: A Note on the Death of Captain Cook', JPH, 3, 1968, pp.2123.

Driessen, H.A.H., ‘Outriggerless canoes and glorious beings’, JPH, Vol. 17, no.1, 1982, pp.328.

Dunmore, J., French Exploration in the Pacific, 2 vols, Oxford, 1965.

Flood, Josephine, Archaeology of the Dreamtime, Sydney, 1983, pp.2738.

Howe, K.R., Where the Waves Fall, chs.34.

Jinks, B., Biskup, P. and H. Nelson (eds), Readings in New Guinea History, Sydney, 1973, pp.111.

King, Michael, The Penguin History of New Zealand, Auckland, 2003, pp.102114.

Morgan, Amanda, 'Mystery in the Eye of the Beholder: CrossCultural Encounters on 19thCentury Yap', JPH, Vol. 31, no.1, 1996, pp. 2741.

Mulvaney, D. John, The Prehistory of Australia, Ringwood, 1975 (1969), pp.1951.

Pearson, W. H., ‘The Reception of European Voyagers on Polynesian Islands, 15681797', Journal de la Société des Océanistes, Vol. XXVI, 1970, pp.121152.

Ryan, Lyndall, The Aboriginal Tasmanians, Sydney, 1981, pp.4765.

Salmond, Anne, Between Worlds: early exchanges between Maori and Europeans, 17731815, Auckland, 1997.

Salmond, Anne, Two Worlds: First Meetings Between Maori and Europeans 16421772, Auckland, 1991.

Smith, Bernard, European Vision and the South Pacific, Oxford, 1989, 3rd edn.

Trask, H.K., ‘Cultures in Collision: Hawai'i & England 1778’, PS, Vol. 7, no.1, 1983, pp.91117.

Walker, Ranginui, Ka Whawhai Tonu Matou Struggle Without End, revised edition, Auckland, 2004, pp.4462.


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Week 5 (beginning Mon 26 March)

Lecture Themes: Colonial ideologies Essential Reading for lectures: Campbell, I.C., ‘British Treaties with

Polynesians in the Nineteenth Century’ in W Renwick, (ed), Sovereignty and Indigenous Rights: the Treaty of Waitangi in international contexts, Wellington, 1991.

Tutorial: Looking across the Pacific

Rationale. As described in this Course Guide for HIST 111, ‘The relationship between colonizers and colonized will be presented in a comparative historical framework’, and one of the aims of HIST 111 is ‘to introduce students to the discipline of history through the study of the comparative colonial experiences’. This tutorial provides an introduction to some of the issues associated with examining the past through comparative historical frameworks.

Essential Reading: Review Montgomerie from last week:

Montgomerie, Deborah, 'Beyond the search for good imperialism: the challenge of comparative ethnohistory', NZJH, Vol. 31, no.1, 1997, pp.15368

At least two of the excerpts from the following three articles or chapters:

Curthoys, Ann ‘Does Australian History have a Future?’, Australian Historical Studies, Vol.33, no.118, 2002, pp.140152.

Denoon, D. and P. MeinSmith with M. Wyndham, A History of Australia, New Zealand and the Pacific, Oxford, 2000, pp.17.

Howe, K.R., ‘Two Worlds?’, NZJH, Vol. 37, no.1, 2003, pp.5061.

Instructions and questions. Read the article by Deborah Montgomerie and at least one of the three excerpts from the other selected articles. In preparing for the tutorial, you should consider the following issues:

1. Define these terms: ethnohistory, microhistory, positivist (or positivism), eurocentric

2. In her article Montgomerie refers to comparative ethnohistory. What is comparative ethnohistory? What is the main argument of this article? What evidence does Montogomerie provide to support this argument?

3. What, according to Montgomerie, are the principal features of colonization?

4. What is the challenge facing historians who wish to move away from Eurocentric narratives?

5. What is microhistory? What are its problems?

6. What are the problems and difficulties of comparing Australian and New Zealand histories? How is this reflected in the historiographies? What might be some of the problems or benefits of developing more comparisons with Pacific history ?

PORTFOLIO TASK #3: Revisit this question later in the course and write up your notes from today and later reflections for your portfolio

What were the differences in British dealings with Australia and the Pacific Islands? Why was no treaty offered in Australia?

How might we explain the differing treatment of Aborigines and Pacific Islanders?

Further Reading on the theme of (the loss of) sovereignty:

AUSTRALIA

Gilbert, Kevin, Aboriginal Sovereignty: Justice, the Law and the Land, Canberra, 1993.


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Maddock, Kenneth, Your Land is Our Land: Aboriginal Land Rights, Ringwood, 1983.

Peterson, Nicholas and Marcia Langton, (eds), Aborigines and Land Rights: A Handbook, Canberra, 1983.

Reynolds, Henry, Aboriginal Sovereignty, Sydney, 1995, intoduction & pp.1659.

Reynolds, Henry, Dispossession, pp.6181.

Reynolds, Henry, The Law of the Land, Penguin, Ringwood, 1987, chapter 1, ‘Who was in possession?’.

video (AV suite):Mabo Myths.

NEW ZEALAND

Belich, J., The New Zealand Wars and the Victorian Interpretation of Racial Conflict, Auckland, 1986.

Binney, Bassett and Olssen, The People and the Land, ch. 6.

Buick, T. L., The Treaty of Waitangi, New Plymouth, 1936, Capper Press reprint Christchurch, 1976.

Colenso, W., The Authentic and Genuine History of the Signing of the Treaty of Waitangi, Wellington, 1890.

Cowan, J., The New Zealand Wars, 2 vols, Wellington, 1983.

Kawharu, I. H. (ed.), Waitangi: Maori and Pakeha Perspectives of the Treaty of Waitangi, Auckland, 1989.

McHugh, P.,The Maori Magna Carta: New Zealand Law and the Treaty of Waitangi, Oxford, 1991.

McKenzie, D. F.,Oral Culture, Literacy and Print in Early New Zealand: The Treaty of Waitangi, Wellington, 1985.

Orange, C., The Treaty of Waitangi, Wellington,1987.

Renwick, W. (ed.), Sovereignty and Indigenous Rights: The Treaty of Waitangiin International Contexts, Wellington, 1991.

Ross, J. O'C., 'Busby and the Declaration of Independence', NZJH, Vol.14, 1980, pp.8389.

Ross, R., ‘Te Tiriti O Waitangi’, NZJH, Vol.6, 1972, pp.12957.

Sinclair, K., Kinds of Peace: Maori People After the Wars 187085, 1991.

Ward, A., ‘The Origins of the AngloMaori Wars: A Reconsideration’, NZJH, Vol.1, 1967, pp.14870.

THE PACIFIC

Binks, et al, Readings in New Guinea History, pp.5557.

Campbell, Worlds Apart…, ch.10.

Campbell, Island Kingdon: Tonga, Ancient and Modern, Christchurch, 1992.

Daws, G., Shoal of Time: A History of the Hawaiian Islands, New York, 1967.

Meleisea, M., Lagaga: A Short History of Western Samoa, Suva, 1987.

Newbury, Colin, ‘Resistance and collaboration in French Polynesia: the Tahitian war, 184447’, JPS, Vol. 22, 1973, pp.527.

Newbury, Colin, Tahiti Nui: Change and Survival in French Polynesia, 17671945, Honolulu, 1975.

Rogers, R.F., Destiny's Landfall: A History of Guam, Honolulu, 1995.

Samson, J. (ed.), British Imperial Strategies in the Pacific, 17501900, Aldershot (Hants), 2004.


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Scarr, D., Fiji: A Short History, Honolulu, 1984.


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Week 6 (beginning Mon 2 April)

Lecture Themes: Evangelising in the Pacific & Southeastern Australia

Essential reading for lecture: Patricia Grimshaw, ‘New England missionary wives, Hawaiian women and “The Cult of True Womanhood”’, Margaret Jolly & Martha Macintyre, (eds), Family and Gender in the Pacific, CUP, Cambridge, 1989.

Tutorial: Colonial frameworks Essential Reading

Moorehead, A., The Fatal Impact: An Account of the Invasion of the South Pacific, 17671840, London, 1966, extracts.

Howe, K.R., ‘The fate of the ‘savage’ in Pacific Historiography’, NZJH, vol. 11, 1977, pp.137154.

Reynolds, Henry, The Other Side of the Frontier, Ringwood, 1982 (1981), extracts.

Supporting Reading:

Paul Monin, This is my place: Hauraki contested, 17691875, Bridget Williams Books, Wellington, 2001, introduction. (new 2006 edition now available also)

Tutorial Questions:

1. Define these terms: ‘fatal impact’, ‘depopulation’, ‘historiography’ and ‘revisionist historian’.

2. How would you characterise Moorehead’s writing? What sort of history is this? For what kind of audience is it written? What problems does it present for you as a history student?

3. What makes Kerry Howe’s article an ‘historiographical’ essay? What problems does it present for you as a history student?

4. According to Howe, what has been the ‘fate of the “savage”’ in Pacific history?

5. What has been the fate of the ‘fatal impact’ interpretation in Henry Reynolds writing about The Other Side of the Frontier?

PORTFOLIO TASK #4 In what ways are Henry Reynolds and Kerry Howe ‘revisionist’ historians?

Further Reading on racial thought in the nineteenth century:

Larrain, J., The Concept of Ideology, London, 1979.

Memmi, Albert, The Colonizer and the Colonized , Boston, 1967.

NEW ZEALAND

Anderson, A., Race Against Time: The Early MaoriPakeha Families and the Development of the Mixed Race Population in Southern New Zealand, 1991.

Belich, James, 'Myth, race and identity in New Zealand', NZJH, Vol.31, no.1, 1997, pp.922.

Bell, L., Colonial Constructs: European Images of Maori 18401914, Auckland, 1992.

Best, E., Tuhoe, Polynesian Society, 1925.

Best, E.,The Maori As He Was, Wellington, 1974.

King, Penguin History of New Zealand, pp.32443.

Lian, K. F., 'Settler Colonialism and Tribal Society: MaoriPakeha Relations in the Nineteenth Century', VUW PhD thesis, 1986.

Newman, A. K., 'A Study of the Causes Leading to the Extinction of the Maori', TPNZI, Vol.14, 1882, pp.46869.


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Smith, S. P., History and Traditions of the Maoris of the West Coast, North Island, New Zealand, New Plymouth, 1910.

Smith, S. P., Maori Wars of the Nineteenth Century, Wellington, 1910.

Sorrenson, M. P. K., 'How to Civilize Savages: Some Answers from Nineteenth Century New Zealand', NZJH, Vol. 9, 1975.

Sorrenson, M. P. K., Origins and Migrations: the Genesis of Some Pakeha Myths and Legends, Auckland, 1979.

Thompson, T., 'British Government Policy and New Zealand Ethnic Relations: Sir George Grey's First Governorship, 184553', VUW MA thesis, 1994.

White, J., TheAncient History of the Maori, 5 vols, 1885.

AUSTRALIA

Broome, Richard, Aboriginal Australians, ch.6.

McGrath, Ann (ed), Contested Ground: Australian Aborigines Under the British Crown, Sydney, 1995, pp.359397.

McGregor, Russell, Imagined Destinies: Aboriginal Australians and the Doomed Race Theory, 18801939, Melbourne, 1997, pp.19 33 and 4859.

Reece, Bob, 'Inventing Aborigines' in Chapman and Read, (eds), Terrible Hard Biscuits, Sydney, 1996.

Reynolds, Frontier, pp.8399.

Steve Hemming, 'Changing History: New Images of Aboriginal History' in Bourke, et al, Aboriginal Australia, Queesland, 1994.

THE PACIFIC

Binks et al, Readings in New Guinea History, pp.121124.

Campbell, I.C., 'Savages Noble and Ignoble: the Perceptions of Early European Voyagers to Polynesia', Pacific Studies, Vol.4, no.1, 1980, pp.4549.

Linnekin, J., ‘Ignoble Savages and other European Visions: the La Perouse Affair in Samoan History’, JPH, vol.26, no.1, 1991, pp.326.

Pearson, Bill, Rifled Sanctuaries: Some Views of the Pacific Islands in Western Literature to 1900, Auckland, 1984.


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WEEK 7 (beginning Mon 23 April)

Lecture Themes: Patterns of resistance

Essential Reading for lecture: Belich, James, Making Peoples, pp. 235246. (Closed Reserve, TDL)

Tutorial: Missions and Missionaries

Review Grimshaw

John Harris, One Blood, Sutherland, NSW, 1994 (1990), pp. 2336.

Tutorial Questions:

1. What were the motivations of missionaries in the Pacific region – both men and women?

2. What were the structures that they saw as essential to a civilized and Christian life?

3. From these articles, what were the broad features of the societies they were entering?

4. What kinds of challenges were specific to the Australian missionaries?

5.PORTFOLIO TASK #5 Compare the contexts Hawaiian and Australian missionaries were working in.

6.What kinds of conflicts were there between ‘traditional’ life and Christianity/ missionaries’ teachings?

Further reading on God and Guns

AUSTRALIA

Harris, John, One Blood, pp.7782.

Reid, Gordon, A Picnic with the Natives, Melbourne, 1990, pp. 128142.

Reynolds, Henry, Dispossession, Sydney, 1989, pp.155181.

Reynolds, Henry, Frontier, Sydney, 1987, pp.8395.

CDROM, Frontier: Stories from Australia's Forgotten Wars (see also videos by same name in Audiovisual suite).

Read, Peter, A Hundred Years War, Canberra, 1988, pp.1224.

Ryan, Lyndall, The Aboriginal Tasmanians, pp.10123.

THE PACIFIC

Binks, Biskup and Nelson, Readings in New Guinea History, pp.2331.

Campbell, I.C., A History of the Pacific Islands, chs 5 and 8.

D’Arcy, Paul, ‘Maori and Muskets from a PanPolynesian perspective’, NZJH, Vol.34, no.1, 2000, pp.117132.

Garrett, J., To Live Among the Stars, Suva, 1982.

Gunson, N.,Messengers of Grace: Evangalical Missionaries in the South Seas 17971860, Melbourne, 1978.

Hanlon, D., ‘God versus gods: The First Years of the Micronesian Mission on Ponape, 18521859’, JPH, Vol. 19, no.1, 1984, pp.4159.

Hilliard, D., God's Gentlemen: A History of the Melanesian Mission 1849 1942, St. Lucia, 1978.

Howe, Where the Waves Fall…, chs 6 and 14.

Kerry Howe, 'Firearms and indigenous warfare: a case study', JPH, Vol.9, 1974, pp.2138.

McArthur, N., 'And, Behold, the Plague was Among the People', in Gunson (ed), The Changing Pacific, pp.273284.


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Parsonson, G.S., 'The Literate Revolution in Polynesia', JPH, Vol.2, 1967, pp.3957.

Shineberg, D., ‘Guns and Men in Melanesia’, JPH, Vol. 6, 1971, pp.6182.

Shineberg, D., ' "He Can But Die...": Missionary Medecine in PreChristian Tonga', in Gunson (ed), The Changing Pacific: Essays in Honour of H.E.Maude, Oxford, 1978, pp.285296.

NEW ZEALAND

Ballara, A., ‘The Role of Warfare in Maori Society in the Early Contact Period’, JPS, Vol.85, 1976, pp.487506.

Begg, A., 'The Conversion to Christianity of the South Island Maori in the 1840s and 1850s', Historical and Political Studies, Vol.3, 1972.

Binney, Bassett and Olssen, The People and the Land, ch. 4.

Binney, J., '"At Every Bend a Taniwha": Thomas Kendall and Maori Carving', NZJH 20 (1986), pp.13246.

Binney, J., 'Christianity and the Maori to 1840: A Comment', NZJH, Vol.3, 1969, pp.14365.

Binney, J., Redemption Songs: A Life of Te Kooti Arikirangi Te Turuki, Auckland, 1995.

Binney, J.,The Legacy of Guilt: A Life of Thomas Kendall, Auckland, 1968.

Cottier, Jeanette, ‘Her Times: Elizabeth Fairburn Colenso’ MA Thesis, VUW, 2000.

Elsmore, B., Mana from Heaven: A Century of Maori Prophets in New Zealand, 1989.

Elsmore, B.,Like Them That Dream: The Maori and the Old Testament, Tauranga, 1985.

Fisher, R., 'Henry Williams' Leadership of the CMS Mission to New Zealand', NZJH, Vol.9, 1975, pp.14253.

Garrett, H., Te Manihera: The Life and Times of the Pioneer Missionary Robert Maunsell, 1991.

Goldsbury, S. J., 'Behind the Picket Pence: The Lives of Missionary Women in Precolonial New Zealand', MA thesis, Auckland, 1986.

Koning, J., ‘Firearms and "Fatal Impact" in New Zealand: An Historiographical Reconnaissance’, VUW Hons Research essay, 1988.

Mikaere, B., Te Maiharoa and the Promised Land, 1988.

Owens, J., 'Missionary Medicine and Maori Health: The Record of the Wesleyan Mission to New Zealand Before 1840', JPS, Vol.81, 1972, pp.41836.

Porter, F. (ed.), The Turanga Journals of William and Jane Williams, 1974.

Walker, Ranginui,Ka Whawhai Tonu Matou Struggle Without End, Auckland, 1990, pp.7897.

Rogers, L. M., Te Wiremu: A Biography of Henry Williams, 1973.

Turner, P., ‘The Politics of Neutrality: The Catholic Mission and the Maori 18381870’, MA thesis, Auckland, 1986.


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WEEK 8 (beginning Mon 30 April)

Lecture Themes: Trade & Exchange

Essential reading for lecture:

Shineberg, Dorothy, ‘The Sandalwood Trade in Melanesian Economics, 1841 65’, JPH, Vol. 1, 1966, pp.129146.

OR

Knapman, Claudia, ‘Western women’s travel writings about the Pacific Islands’, PS, Vol.20, no.2, 1997, pp.3151.

Tutorial

This tutorial is dedicated to discussion of the assignment just submitted and the process of turning your minds to your essays. Please bring any problems you’d like to discuss, questions you continue to have about research, and a rough essay plan for discussion.


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Week 9 (beginning Mon 7 May)

Lecture Themes: Protecting and assimilating indigenous people

Essential reading for lecture: One article from your research that contributes to answering the question of the extent to which colonial legislation directed at indigenous people affected their ability to act and determine their own lives.

Tutorial: Trade and Exchange, OR Travel [You may choose which topic you’d like to pursue this week. They do have overlap, however!]

OPTION 1

Trade and exchange: Review Shineberg, review McNeill

Broome, Richard, Aboriginal Australians, chapter 4, ‘Cultural resistance amidst destruction’.

PORTFOLIO TASK #6: Make notes about the ways in which your own research contributes to the theme of trade and exchange

Tutorial Questions (Option 1):

1.What are the features of early trade highlighted by these authors?

2.Are there significant differences in these two case studies? What are they? Are there areas of commonality?

3.What kinds of good were being traded, and what sorts of cultural ‘goods’ were being traded? (You can go back to McNeill to supplement this answer)

4.What sources do these authors use to substantiate their arguments?

PORTFOLIO TASK #7:

5.In the relationships outlined by these authors, where did the power lie? What evidence do the authors give for indigenous agency in these relationships? In what ways does this add to our discussions of agency/fatal impact/dual agency?

6.Was trade necessarily a ‘bad’ thing?

Further reading on the themes of trade and exchange:

AUSTRALIA

Hainsworth, D. R., The Sydney Traders: Simeon Lord and His Contemporaries, Melbourne, 1971.

Little, B., 'The Sealing and Whaling Industry in Australia before 1850', Australian Economic History Review, Vol.9, 1964.

McBryde, Isabel, 'Exchange in Southeastern Australia: an Ethnohistorical Perspective' in Chapman and Read (eds), Terrible Hard Biscuits, Sydney, 1996.

Reynolds, Henry, With the White People, Ringwood, 1990, pp.520.

Ryan, Lyndall, The Aboriginal Tasmanians, pp.6672, 7382.

Yarwood, A.T. and M.J. Knowling, Race Relations in Australia: A History, 1982, pp.191193, 206222 (labour).

THE PACIFIC

Binks, Biskup and Nelson, (eds), Readings in New Guinea History, pp.1419 (labour trade), pp.1922 (language).

Davidson, J.W., 'Peter Dillon of Vanikoro', in Davidson and Scarr (eds), Pacific Island Portraits, 1970.

Howe, Where the Waves Fall, ch.5.


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Maude, H.E., Of Islands and Men: Studies in Pacific History, Melbourne 1968, ch.4,5,6.

Ralston, C., Grass Huts and Warehouses: Pacific Beach Communities of the Nineteenth Century, Canberra, 1987.

Ralston, C., 'The Pattern of Race Relations in Nineteenth Century Pacific Port Towns', JPH, Vol.6, 1971, pp.3559.

Spate, O.H.K., Paradise Lost and Found, ch.12.

NEW ZEALAND

Adams, P., Fatal Necessity: British Intervention in New Zealand 18301847, 1977.

Bawden, P.,The Years Before Waitangi: A Story of Early Maori/European Contact in New Zealand, 1987.

Burns, P., Fatal Success: A History of the New Zealand Company, 1989.

Coutts, P. J. F., 'Merger or Takeover: A Survey of the Effects of Contact Between European and Maori in the Foveaux Strait Region', JPS, Vol.78, 1969, pp.495516.

Gallagher, T. M., 'New England Whalers and the Maori Economic Frontier', VUW MA thesis, 1994.

McLean, R.W., 'Dicky Barrett, Trader, Whaler, Interpreter', MA thesis, Auckland University, 1994.

McNab, R., Murihiku and the Southern Islands, Invercargill, 1907.

McNab, R., The Old Whaling Days: A History of Southern New Zealand From 1830 to 1840, Invercargill, 1913.

Hazel Petrie, Chiefs of Industry: Maori Tribal Enterprise in Early Colonial New Zealand, AUP, Auckland, 2006

Steven, M., Trade, Tactics and Territory: Britain in the Pacific 17831823, Melbourne, 1983.

OPTION 2 Travel Writing & Travellers Review Knapman

Wevers, Lydia, Country of Writing: Travel Writing and New Zealand, 1809 1900, Auckland, 2002, chapter 3, ‘Swells’ sons run out: the travel writing of rovers, ramblers and adventurers’.

PORTFOLIO TASK #8: Access the Dictionary of New Zealand Biography online (www.dnzb.org.nz), and perform a word search using the keyword ‘traveller’. Choose a biography of a 19 th century traveller and bring it (or the details) to class. How do the readings for this week illuminate this person’s occupation as a traveller? OR PORTFOLIO TASK #9 Identify current travel literature about Australia, New Zealand or the Pacific Islands and bring an example. Be prepared to discuss the differences and similarities with 19 th century literature.

Tutorial Questions (Option 2):

1.Summarise three arguments about travel writings made by historians.

2.What are some of the key ideas travellers conveyed about the Pacific Islands and New Zealand? What were the key ideas they conveyed about indigenous people?

3.Were women’s travel writings in any way different to those of men?

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4.To what extent do travellers’ writing articulate ideas of indigenous agency?

Further Readings are well covered in the references of Knapman and the bibliography of Wevers (on CR)


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Lecture Themes: Protest and Violence

Essential reading for lectures: Hempenstall, P. and N. Rutherford, Protest and Dissent in the Colonial Pacific, Suva: IPS, USP, 1984, pp.715. And, drawing on your research, make some notes for discussing the following: definitions of protest, the efficacy of indigenous protest; the ways we might measure success of protest.

Tutorial: Acquiring the land: Read two of the following:

Williams, David, Te Kooti Tango Whenua: The Native Land Court 1864 1909, Wellington, 1999, pp.6376.

Goodall, Heather, Invasion to Embassy: Land in Aboriginal politics in New South Wales, 17701972, Sydney, 1996, pp.115124.

Saussol, Alain, ‘New Caledonia. Colonization and Reaction’, in R. Crocombe (ed.), Land Tenure in the Pacific,. Suva, 3rd. ed. 1987 (1st ed. 1971), pp. 240253.

Tutorial questions:

1.What, according to David Williams, was the main objective of the Native Land Court in NZ?

2.How did the Native Land Court challenge traditional forms of Maori land tenure?

3.Create a concept map of the connections Goodall makes between land rights and other kinds of rights for Aboriginal people.

4.What were the competing pressures on Aboriginal reserves in NSW? How do those pressures represent different positions on the ‘Aboriginal question’?

5.What do the Maloga petitions illustrate about Aboriginal claims to land, their methods and arguments etc?

6.What was the basic European “misunderstanding” about Melanesian land ownership in New Caledonia?

7.PORTFOLIO TASK #10 Many colonial legal frameworks were described as “protection” measures. How do you respond to the suggestion that nineteenth century administrators and politicians were doing what they thought was best for indigenous people?

Supporting readings:


Walker, Ka Whawhai Tonu Matou, pp.13552.

Gilson, R.P., ‘The background to New Zealand’s early land policy in Rarotonga (Cook Islands)’, JPS, Vol.64, no.3, 1955, pp.26780.

Further readings on land:

Binney J., & G. Chaplin, Nga Morehu: The Survivors, Auckland, 1986.

Binney J., G. Chaplin and C. Wallace, Mihaia: The Prophet Rua Kenana and His Community at Maungapohatu, Auckland, 1979.

Binney, Bassett and Olssen, The People and the Land, chs. 1011.

Brooking, T., '"Busting Up" the Greatest Estate of All: Liberal Maori Land Policy 18911911', NZJH, Vol.26, 1992, pp.7898.

Campbell, I.C., A History of the Pacific Islands, chs. 12 and 13.

Chesterman, John and Brian Galligan, Citizens Without Rights, Melbourne, 1997


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Crocombe, Ron (ed.), Land Tenure in the Pacific, Melbourne, 1971

Denoon, Donald (ed.), The Cambridge History of the Pacific Islanders, Cambridge, 1997, chs. 5 , 7 and 8.

Finney, Ben, Polynesian Peasants and Proletarians, Cambridge, Mass., 1973.

Gilling, B., 'Engine of Destruction? An Introduction to the History of the Maori Land Court', Victoria University Law Review, Vol.25, 1994, pp.11539.

Knapman, B., "Capitalism's economic impact on colonial Fiji 18741939: development or underdevelopment", JPH, Vol. 20, no.2, 1985, pp.6683

McGrath, A. (ed.), Contested Ground

McNaught, T.J., The Fijian Colonial Experience, Canberra, 1982.

Panoff, M., "The French way of plantation systems", JPH, Vol. 26, no.2, 1991, pp.206212.

Read, P., ' "A Rape of the Soul So Profound": Some Reflections on the Dispersal Policy in NSW' in Chapman and Read (eds), Terrible Hard Biscuits.

Reid, G., A Picnic with the Natives, pp.151170.

Reynolds, Frontier, The Other Side of the Frontier, and Dispossession.

Riseborough, H., Days of Darkness: Taranaki 18781884, Wellington, 1989.

Sorrenson, M. P. K., 'The Purchase of Maori Land 186592', Auckland MA thesis, 1955.

Ward, A., A Show of Justice? Racial 'Amalgamation' in Nineteenth Century New Zealand, Auckland, 1973 (2 nd ed. 1995).

Ward, R.G. & Kingdon E (eds), Land, Custom and Practice in the South Pacific, Cambridge, 1995.


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Lecture Themes: Twentieth century legacies

Essential Reading for lecture: Giselle Byrnes, ‘Jackals of the Crown? Historians and the Treaty Claims Process’ in Bronwyn Dalley & Jock Phillips, (eds), Going Public: the Changing Face of New Zealand History, AUP, Auckland, 2001.

Tutorial: Political Protest

Time in this tutorial will be dedicated to discussing and making notes for the portfolio

Review Hempenstall & Rutherford.

Attwood & Markus, The Struggle for Aboriginal Rights, pp. 8089.

Tutorial Questions:

1.What is the paradox that Hempenstall and Rutherford describe? How important do you think this is to understanding protest movements in Australia and in the Pacific? What other factors might be considered when examining protest movements?

2.What do the various primary documents provided by Attwood and Marcus tell us about the character of Aboriginal demands for justice in the 1930s?

3.In what ways can Hempenstall and Rutherford’s analysis be applied to the documents on Aboriginal demands for justice?

Further readings on political protest:

Anderson, Benedict, Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism, London, 1983 (1991).

Bennett, J., Wealth of the Solomons: A History of a Pacific Archipelago, Hawaii, 1987.

Binney, Bassett and Olssen, The People and the Land, chs. 7 and 1215.

Boyd, M., 'Coping with Samoan Resistance after the 1918 Influenza Epidemic: Colonel Tate's Problems and Perplexities', JPH, Vol.15, no.3, 1986, pp.155174.

Broome, R., Aboriginal Australians, chapter 10.

Campbell, I.C., A History of the Pacific Islands, ch.12, 13.

Chesterman, John and Brian Galligan, Citizens Without Rights, Melbourne, 1997.

Cleave, P., ‘Tribal and Statelike formations in New Zealand Maori Society 17501900’, JPS, Vol.92, 1983, pp.5192.

Cox, L.,Kotahitanga: The Search for Maori Political Unity, 1993.

Davidson, J.W., ‘Lauaki Namulau'ulu Mamoe: A Traditionalist in Samoan Politics', in J.W. Davidson and D. Scarr (eds), Pacific Island Portraits, Canberra, 1970.

Denoon, Donald (ed.), The Cambridge History of the Pacific Islanders, Cambridge, 1997, chs. 6 and 12.

Department of Justice, The Treaty of Waitangi and the Waitangi Tribunal, Wellington, 1990.

Douglas, Bronwen, 'Conflict and Alliance in a Colonial Context: Case Studies in New Caledonia, 18531870', JPH, Vol.15, 1980, pp.2151.

Evison, H., The Treaty of Waitangi and the Ngai Tahu Claim: a summary, Christchurch, 1988.


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Evison, H., The Treaty of Waitangi and the Waitangi Tribunal: fact and fiction, Christchurch, 1989.

Field, M.J., Mau: Samoa's Struggle Against New Zealand Oppression, Wellington, 1984.

Field, M.J., Black Saturday: New Zealand’s tragic blunders in Samoa, Auckland, 2006.

Gammage, B., 'The Rabaul Strike, 1929', JPH, Vol.10, no.3, 1975, pp.329.

Hempenstall, P.J., Pacific Islanders Under German Rule: A Study on the Meaning of Colonial Resistance, Canberra, 1978.

Hempenstall, P.J., & N. Rutherford, Protest and Dissent in the Colonial Pacific, Suva, 1984.

Kelsey, J., A Question of Honour: Labour and the Treaty, 198489, Wellington, 1990.

Kent, Noel, Hawaii, islands under the influence, Honolulu, 1993.

King, Penguin History of New Zealand, pp. 46684.

Latham, L., 'Revolt Reexamined: the 1878 Insurrection in New Caledonia', JPH, vol.10 (3), 1975, pp.4863.

Laracy, H.M., ‘Marching Rule and the Missions’, JPH, Vol. 6, 1971, pp.96 114.

MacKenzie, Melody Kapilialoha (ed.), Native Hawaiian Rights Handbook, Honolulu, 1991, pp..320.

McGrath, A. (ed), Contested Ground

Meleisea, M., Lagaga: A Short History of Western Samoa, Suva, 1987.

Merry, Sally, Colonizing Hawaii: The cultural power of law, Princeton, 2000.

New Zealand 1990 Commission, The Treaty of Waitangi: the symbol of our life together as a Nation, 1990.

Project Waitangi, The Treaty of Waitangi: it’s the putting right that counts, Wellington, 1989.

Project Waitangi, The Treaty of Waitangi: Pakeha face the issues, Wellington, 1989.

Sinclair, K., A Destiny Apart: New Zealand’s Search for National Identity, Wellington, 1986.

Sinclair, K., Imperial Federation: A Study of New Zealand Politics and Opinion 18801914, London, 1955.

Sorrenson, M. P. K., 'The Maori King Movement, 18581885', in R. Chapman and K. Sinclair (eds), Studies of a Small Democracy, 1963.

Trask, HaunaniKay, From a Native Daughter: colonialism and sovereignty in Hawai’i, Honolulu, 1999.

Walker, Ka Whawhai Tonu Matou, pp. 22047.


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Week 12 (beginning Mon 28 May) Legacies

Lecture Themes: Legacies cont’d & conclusions

No reading for lectures

Tutorial:

Time in this tutorial will be dedicated to discussing and making notes for the portfolio

Review Byrnes

Attwood, Bain, ‘Unsettling pasts: reconciliation and history in settler Australia’, Postcolonial Studies, vol.8, no.3, 2005, pp.243259.

Tutorial Questions:

1. How do these authors view the role of historians and history making in present race relations?

2. PORTFOLIO TASK #11 What is a ‘shared history’? In what ways have Australians and New Zealanders attempted to construct a shared history? Have they been successful? Are there critiques of the ‘shared history’ idea?

3. Is reconciliation possible? Is objectivity possible?

Further reading on the theme of colonial legacies:

Attwood, Bain & Andrew Markus (eds), The Struggle for Aboriginal Rights, Sydney, 1999.

Attwood, Bain and Fiona Magowan (eds), Telling Stories: Indigenous history and memory in Australia and New Zealand, Wellington, 2001.

Borofsky, R (ed.), Remembrance of Pacific Pasts: An invitation to remake history, Honolulu, 2000, section four.

Broome, Aboriginal Australians, 2nd edition, 1994.

Burgmann, Verity, Power and Protest, introduction and ch. 1.

Byrnes, Giselle, The Waitangi Tribunal and New Zealand History, Oxford, 2004.

Linnekin, J., ‘The ideological world remade’, in Denoon, Donald (ed.), The Cambridge History of the Pacific Islanders, Cambridge, 1997, ch 12.

Denoon, D. and P. MeinSmith with M. Wyndham, A History of Australia, New Zealand and the Pacific, Oxford, 2000, pp. 36789 (‘Expanding Citizenship’).

Hayward and Wheen (eds), The Waitangi Tribunal, Wellington, 2004.


Mudrooroo, Us Mob, 1995.

Oxford History of Australia, vol. 5.

Reynolds, Henry, Aboriginal Sovereignty, 1996.

Sharp and McHugh (eds), Histories, Power and Loss: Uses of the Past, Wellington, 2001.

Stephenson, Mabo: A Judicial Revolution, 1993.

Walker, Ka Whawhai Tonu Matou, chs 12 and 13.

Ward, Alan, Connell, John and Michael Spencer, ‘Introduction: the Coq and the Cagou’, in M. Spencer, et al., (eds.), New Caledonia: Essays in Nationalism and Dependency. St Lucia: University of Queensland Press, pp.1–21

NB. The VUW Library holds Waitangi Tribunal published reports. Reports are also available on the Tribunal’s web site at: http://www.waitangitribunal.govt.nz

http://www.waitangi-tribunal.govt.nz/


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