Peter J Yearwood
Biographic Data
| ID | 343871 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Peter J Yearwood |
| GIVEN NAMES | Peter J |
| FAMILY NAME | Yearwood |
| SIGNATURE | YEARWOOD P J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Papua New Guinea |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 16 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 17 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1986 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Mobilising Papua New Guinea’s Conservation Humanities: Research, Teaching, Capacity Building, Future Directions
We suggest that the emerging field of the conservation humanities can play a valuable role in biodiversity protection in Papua New Guinea (PNG), where most land remains under collective customary clan ownership. As a first step to mobilising this scholarly field in PNG and to support capacity development for PNG humanities academics, we conducted a landscape review of PNG humanities teaching and research relating to biodiversity conservation and …
Tonga and the British Empire in the Great War: Loyalty and Neutrality
The historiography of Tonga in the First World War is very sparse. It is dominated by Elizabeth Wood-Ellem’s authoritative biography of Queen Salote (Tupou III). She does not make use of the Colonial Office files stored in the British National Archives and underestimates the threat that the War posed to Tonga’s autonomy in its association with the British Empire. The Tongan government under King Tupou II and Prime Minister Tu‘ivakano felt threate…
The Great Powers and the International System: Systemic Theory in Empirical Perspective, by Bear F. Braumoeller
Journal Article The Great Powers and the International System: Systemic Theory in Empirical Perspective, by Bear F. Braumoeller Get access The Great Powers and the International System: Systemic Theory in Empirical Perspective, by Bear F. Braumoeller (Cambridge: Cambridge U.P., 2012; pp. xvii + 278. ₤18.99). Peter J. Yearwood Peter J. Yearwood University of Papua New Guinea Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar …
Lord Robert Cecil: Politician and Internationalist, by Gaynor Johnson
At the end of an exceptionally long life, Viscount Cecil of Chelwood considered that it had been ‘without great achievement or disaster but yet pleasant to myself and tolerably agreeable to others’ (p. 272). It had been rather more than that. The third son of a prime minister, the third Marquess of Salisbury, Lord Robert was at first overshadowed by his apparently more talented brothers. Yet one observer rightly considered that ‘Robert has the fu…
Continents and consequences: The history of a concept
Originally intended to provide an accessible overview for colleagues in Papua New Guinea, this article outlines the emergence of the continental division of the world in classical antiquity. In medieval Europe this survived as a learned conception which eventually acquired emotional content. Nevertheless, the division was still within the context of universal Christianity, which did not privilege any continent. Contrary to the views of recent cri…
New Zealand in the League of Nations: The Beginnings of an Independent Foreign Policy, 1919–1939, by Gerald Chaudron
Gerald Chaudron, in this present book, sets out to show that New Zealand’s involvement in the League of Nations was very different from that of the other Dominions. Whereas their nationalism, greatly stimulated by the Great War, found expression first in insisting on signing the peace treaties and then in becoming members of the League, Wellington opposed policies which it feared would compromise the unity of the British Empire and the security w…
Securing the World Economy: The Reinvention of the League of Nations, 1920–1946, by Patricia Clavin
The Foreign Office Mind: The Making of British Foreign Policy, 1865–1914, by T.G. Otte
One approaches a book such as this with high expectations. T.G. Otte is a leading and very productive historian of British ‘old diplomacy’. He has used more than ninety collections of private papers, including some which, as Zara Steiner points out, ‘most historians did not know existed’. His title, with its echo of Robinson and Gallagher’s famous Africa and the Victorians: The Official Mind of Imperialism, promises a new approach to the history …
On the Fringes of Diplomacy: Influences on British Foreign Policy, 1800–1940, ed. John Fisher and Antony Best
This book builds on a 1965 essay by D.C. Watt on the British foreign-policy-making elite, and on Paul Kennedy’s 1981 book on background influences. It tries to examine what the editors term a broader range of actors and a deeper range of influences. This has allowed the fourteen contributors ‘to cast their nets widely, chronologically, geographically and thematically’ (p. 2). The chronological scope is more restricted than the title suggests, as …
A Genuine and Energetic League of Nations Policy”: Lord Curzon and the New Diplomacy, 1918–1925
At the end of April 1922, S.P. Waterlow of the Central Department of the Foreign Office, which dealt with Franco–German relations and European security, put up a memorandum. This claimed: “Except on paper and as an expedient for minor purposes or an escape for some dilemma, we have not taken the League [of Nations] seriously.” It contrasted London's indifference with the active use which Paris was making of the League, asserted that “the objects …
The Affairs of a Distant Dependency: The Nigeria Debate and the Premiership, 1916
We provide the first full account of the intertwined corporate conflicts and political tensions behind the ‘Nigeria Debate’ of 8 November 1916, the beginning of the crisis that toppled the Asquith coalition The debate had its ongins in an attempt by the Lagos authorities and the Colonial Office to break the emerging monopoly of a ‘Ring’ of British firms over Nigerian trade The government sought to encourage foreign (especially American) investmen…
Real securities against new wars’: Official British thinking and the origins of the league of nations, 1914–19
The historiography of the origins of the League of Nations has usually placed collective security at the centre of the debate during the First World War. This is anachronistic and misleading. The British government considered a guarantee of peace to be essential for any league. This was not contentious. The new proposals of 1917–18, associated especially with Philip Kerr and The Round Table, were intended not as alternatives to a guarantee, but a…
The expatriate firms and the Colonial economy of Nigeria in the First World War
In a Casual Way with a Blue Pencil: British Policy and the Partition of Kamerun, 1914-1919
(1993). “In a Casual Way with a Blue Pencil”: British Policy and the Partition of Kamerun, 1914–1919. Canadian Journal of African Studies / Revue canadienne des études africaines: Vol. 27, No. 2, pp. 218-244
Great Britain and the repartition of Africa, 1914–19∗
On the Safe and Right Lines’: The Lloyd George Government and the Origins of the League of Nations, 1916–1918
The success of wartime governments in the twentieth century is determined not just by their effectiveness in waging war, but also by their ability to plan for peace. Mobilizing the population for total war and winning the benevolent neutrality or active support of major uncommitted powers require the projection of a vision of a better, peaceful world which will be the necessary consequence of victory. The reordering of international society is th…
Consistently with Honour'; Great Britain, the League of Nations and the Corfu Crisis of 1923
The crisis arising out of the murder on Greek soil of General Tellini, the Italian president of the allied commission delimiting the GraecoAlbanian border, and the consequent Italian occupation of Corfu on 31 August 1923, confronted the League of Nations with what was recognized as being its first major test. It was generally accepted that the Greek government had a clear responsibility to ensure the safety of the representative of a foreign powe…
In a Casual Way with a Blue Pencil: British Policy and the Partition of Kamerun, 1914-1919
(1993). “In a Casual Way with a Blue Pencil”: British Policy and the Partition of Kamerun, 1914–1919. Canadian Journal of African Studies / Revue canadienne des études africaines: Vol. 27, No. 2, pp. 218-244
On the Safe and Right Lines’: The Lloyd George Government and the Origins of the League of Nations, 1916–1918
The success of wartime governments in the twentieth century is determined not just by their effectiveness in waging war, but also by their ability to plan for peace. Mobilizing the population for total war and winning the benevolent neutrality or active support of major uncommitted powers require the projection of a vision of a better, peaceful world which will be the necessary consequence of victory. The reordering of international society is th…
Great Britain and the repartition of Africa, 1914–19∗
The expatriate firms and the Colonial economy of Nigeria in the First World War
Continents and consequences: The history of a concept
Originally intended to provide an accessible overview for colleagues in Papua New Guinea, this article outlines the emergence of the continental division of the world in classical antiquity. In medieval Europe this survived as a learned conception which eventually acquired emotional content. Nevertheless, the division was still within the context of universal Christianity, which did not privilege any continent. Contrary to the views of recent cri…
Consistently with Honour'; Great Britain, the League of Nations and the Corfu Crisis of 1923
The crisis arising out of the murder on Greek soil of General Tellini, the Italian president of the allied commission delimiting the GraecoAlbanian border, and the consequent Italian occupation of Corfu on 31 August 1923, confronted the League of Nations with what was recognized as being its first major test. It was generally accepted that the Greek government had a clear responsibility to ensure the safety of the representative of a foreign powe…
On the Safe and Right Lines’: The Lloyd George Government and the Origins of the League of Nations, 1916–1918
The success of wartime governments in the twentieth century is determined not just by their effectiveness in waging war, but also by their ability to plan for peace. Mobilizing the population for total war and winning the benevolent neutrality or active support of major uncommitted powers require the projection of a vision of a better, peaceful world which will be the necessary consequence of victory. The reordering of international society is th…
Great Britain and the repartition of Africa, 1914–19∗
In a Casual Way with a Blue Pencil: British Policy and the Partition of Kamerun, 1914-1919
(1993). “In a Casual Way with a Blue Pencil”: British Policy and the Partition of Kamerun, 1914–1919. Canadian Journal of African Studies / Revue canadienne des études africaines: Vol. 27, No. 2, pp. 218-244
Real securities against new wars’: Official British thinking and the origins of the league of nations, 1914–19
The historiography of the origins of the League of Nations has usually placed collective security at the centre of the debate during the First World War. This is anachronistic and misleading. The British government considered a guarantee of peace to be essential for any league. This was not contentious. The new proposals of 1917–18, associated especially with Philip Kerr and The Round Table, were intended not as alternatives to a guarantee, but a…
The expatriate firms and the Colonial economy of Nigeria in the First World War
The Affairs of a Distant Dependency: The Nigeria Debate and the Premiership, 1916
We provide the first full account of the intertwined corporate conflicts and political tensions behind the ‘Nigeria Debate’ of 8 November 1916, the beginning of the crisis that toppled the Asquith coalition The debate had its ongins in an attempt by the Lagos authorities and the Colonial Office to break the emerging monopoly of a ‘Ring’ of British firms over Nigerian trade The government sought to encourage foreign (especially American) investmen…
A Genuine and Energetic League of Nations Policy”: Lord Curzon and the New Diplomacy, 1918–1925
At the end of April 1922, S.P. Waterlow of the Central Department of the Foreign Office, which dealt with Franco–German relations and European security, put up a memorandum. This claimed: “Except on paper and as an expedient for minor purposes or an escape for some dilemma, we have not taken the League [of Nations] seriously.” It contrasted London's indifference with the active use which Paris was making of the League, asserted that “the objects …
The Foreign Office Mind: The Making of British Foreign Policy, 1865–1914, by T.G. Otte
One approaches a book such as this with high expectations. T.G. Otte is a leading and very productive historian of British ‘old diplomacy’. He has used more than ninety collections of private papers, including some which, as Zara Steiner points out, ‘most historians did not know existed’. His title, with its echo of Robinson and Gallagher’s famous Africa and the Victorians: The Official Mind of Imperialism, promises a new approach to the history …
On the Fringes of Diplomacy: Influences on British Foreign Policy, 1800–1940, ed. John Fisher and Antony Best
This book builds on a 1965 essay by D.C. Watt on the British foreign-policy-making elite, and on Paul Kennedy’s 1981 book on background influences. It tries to examine what the editors term a broader range of actors and a deeper range of influences. This has allowed the fourteen contributors ‘to cast their nets widely, chronologically, geographically and thematically’ (p. 2). The chronological scope is more restricted than the title suggests, as …
Continents and consequences: The history of a concept
Originally intended to provide an accessible overview for colleagues in Papua New Guinea, this article outlines the emergence of the continental division of the world in classical antiquity. In medieval Europe this survived as a learned conception which eventually acquired emotional content. Nevertheless, the division was still within the context of universal Christianity, which did not privilege any continent. Contrary to the views of recent cri…
New Zealand in the League of Nations: The Beginnings of an Independent Foreign Policy, 1919–1939, by Gerald Chaudron
Gerald Chaudron, in this present book, sets out to show that New Zealand’s involvement in the League of Nations was very different from that of the other Dominions. Whereas their nationalism, greatly stimulated by the Great War, found expression first in insisting on signing the peace treaties and then in becoming members of the League, Wellington opposed policies which it feared would compromise the unity of the British Empire and the security w…
Securing the World Economy: The Reinvention of the League of Nations, 1920–1946, by Patricia Clavin
The Great Powers and the International System: Systemic Theory in Empirical Perspective, by Bear F. Braumoeller
Journal Article The Great Powers and the International System: Systemic Theory in Empirical Perspective, by Bear F. Braumoeller Get access The Great Powers and the International System: Systemic Theory in Empirical Perspective, by Bear F. Braumoeller (Cambridge: Cambridge U.P., 2012; pp. xvii + 278. ₤18.99). Peter J. Yearwood Peter J. Yearwood University of Papua New Guinea Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar …
Lord Robert Cecil: Politician and Internationalist, by Gaynor Johnson
At the end of an exceptionally long life, Viscount Cecil of Chelwood considered that it had been ‘without great achievement or disaster but yet pleasant to myself and tolerably agreeable to others’ (p. 272). It had been rather more than that. The third son of a prime minister, the third Marquess of Salisbury, Lord Robert was at first overshadowed by his apparently more talented brothers. Yet one observer rightly considered that ‘Robert has the fu…
Mobilising Papua New Guinea’s Conservation Humanities: Research, Teaching, Capacity Building, Future Directions
We suggest that the emerging field of the conservation humanities can play a valuable role in biodiversity protection in Papua New Guinea (PNG), where most land remains under collective customary clan ownership. As a first step to mobilising this scholarly field in PNG and to support capacity development for PNG humanities academics, we conducted a landscape review of PNG humanities teaching and research relating to biodiversity conservation and …
Tonga and the British Empire in the Great War: Loyalty and Neutrality
The historiography of Tonga in the First World War is very sparse. It is dominated by Elizabeth Wood-Ellem’s authoritative biography of Queen Salote (Tupou III). She does not make use of the Colonial Office files stored in the British National Archives and underestimates the threat that the War posed to Tonga’s autonomy in its association with the British Empire. The Tongan government under King Tupou II and Prime Minister Tu‘ivakano felt threate…
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