Peter Hempenstall
Biographic Data
| ID | 693710 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Peter Hempenstall |
| GIVEN NAMES | Peter |
| FAMILY NAME | Hempenstall |
| SIGNATURE | HEMPENSTALL P |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Canterbury |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 6 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 15 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1975 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Colin Newbury (1929–2025)
Colin Walter Newbury was born in Dunedin, New Zealand, on 4 March 1929.1 His father, Walter, had survived the Western Front as an under-age army volunteer as well as the Spanish flu pandemic and ma...
John Anthony Moses (10 June 1930–30 May 2024)
John Anthony Moses, professional historian and Anglican priest, is not usually counted among the founding fathers of Pacific history, but he played a recognizable role in training students for the
How Samoan Workers under Colonial Regimes Enlarged their World
Journal Article How Samoan Workers under Colonial Regimes Enlarged their World Get access Holger Droessler. Coconut Colonialism. Workers and the Globalization of Samoa. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2022. 288 pp. $39.95 (hardcover). Peter Hempenstall Peter Hempenstall [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Diplomatic History, dhad026, https://doi.org/10.1093/dh/dhad02…
Manuscript Xlii: The Cry of Mata‘afa
The ‘Cry of Mata‘afa’ is part of a long tradition of Sāmoan protests to international powers to be allowed to control their own lands and political destiny. It comes in 1899 as the Sāmoan islands are being partitioned between Germany and the United States. But it was not the end of resistance by Sāmoans to colonialist pretensions under both Germans and New Zealand. Mata‘afa Iosefo pleads for the three powers–Britain, Germany and the United States…
Mission in Ozeanien während der deutschen Kolonialzeit
The Excellenzcluster in Religion and Politics in Pre-Modern and Modern Cultures was founded at the Westfalische Wilhelms-Universitat Munster in 2007. It is the only cluster of the 43 in Germany who
Changing Contexts, Shifting Meanings: Transformations of Cultural Traditions in Oceania
This book sheds new light on processes of cultural transformation at work in Oceania and analyzes them as products of interrelationships between culturally created meanings and specific contexts. In a series of inspiring essays, noted scholars of the region examine these interrelationships for insight into how cultural traditions are shaped on an ongoing basis.The collection marks a turning point in the debate on the conceptualization of traditio…
Pacific Islanders Under German Rule: A Study in the Meaning of Colonial Resistance
This is an important book. It is a reprint of the first detailed study of how Pacific Islanders responded politically and economically to their rulers across the German empire of the Pacific. Under one cover, it captures the variety of interactions between the various German colonial administrations, with their separate approaches, and the leaders and people of Samoa in
Alan Dudley Ward
into one of the pioneer Pa keha families inland from Gisborne, New Zealand.It was a family for whom Poverty Bay was aptly named.Alan grew up on a small rented dairy farm.The family was not prosperous, but his parents raised Alan in an environment of stern probity
Overcoming Separate Histories: Historians as ‘Ideas Traders’ in a Trans-Tasman World
Additional informationNotes on contributorsPeter HempenstallPeter Hempenstall is Professor of History at the University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand and Co-Director of the New Zealand Australia Connections Research Centre (www.nzac.canterbury.ac.nz). His most recent book (with Paula Mochida) is The Lost Man. Wilhelm Solf in German History (Wiesbaden 2005). He is currently completing (with Philippa Mein Smith) Remaking the Tasman World…
Australia and New Zealand: Turning Shared Pasts into a Shared History
Australia and New Zealand have a shared past, but not a shared history. A project at the University of Canterbury in New Zealand addresses this problem by exploring the relationship between the two countries on multiple levels – political, intellectual, cultural, social and economic – from the 1880s to 2000. It analyses the nature of Australia – New Zealand ties, where they are strongest and weakest, and how they have changed. The investigators a…
Pacific Lives, Pacific Places: Bursting Boundaries in Pacific History
Over the past 50 years Pacific history has become a vast and complex field of multidisciplinary analysis ... The conference of the Pacific History Association held in 2000 provided the opportunity to re-think some of these matters"--P. [4] of cover
The Yin and the Yang of Wilhelm Solf: Reconstructing Colonial Superman
Wilhelm Solf is one of the ‘heroes’ of liberal historians’ representations of colonial rule in the Pacific Islands. A long line of historiography presents him as a sensitive interpreter and manipulator of Samoan culture and a skilled administrator whose reputation outlasts that of his New Zealand successors. This essay attempts a revisionist biographical analysis of his multiple identities via a critical re‐reading of Solfs relations with the whi…
The Line of Descent: Creating Pacific Histories in Australasia
The Meddlesome Priest: A Life of Ernest Burgmann
The reception of European missions in the German Pacific empire: The New Guinea experience
(1975). The reception of European missions in the German Pacific empire: The New Guinea experience. The Journal of Pacific History: Vol. 10, No. 1, pp. 46-64
Australia and New Zealand: Turning Shared Pasts into a Shared History
Australia and New Zealand have a shared past, but not a shared history. A project at the University of Canterbury in New Zealand addresses this problem by exploring the relationship between the two countries on multiple levels – political, intellectual, cultural, social and economic – from the 1880s to 2000. It analyses the nature of Australia – New Zealand ties, where they are strongest and weakest, and how they have changed. The investigators a…
Pacific Lives, Pacific Places: Bursting Boundaries in Pacific History
Over the past 50 years Pacific history has become a vast and complex field of multidisciplinary analysis ... The conference of the Pacific History Association held in 2000 provided the opportunity to re-think some of these matters"--P. [4] of cover
Changing Contexts, Shifting Meanings: Transformations of Cultural Traditions in Oceania
This book sheds new light on processes of cultural transformation at work in Oceania and analyzes them as products of interrelationships between culturally created meanings and specific contexts. In a series of inspiring essays, noted scholars of the region examine these interrelationships for insight into how cultural traditions are shaped on an ongoing basis.The collection marks a turning point in the debate on the conceptualization of traditio…
Overcoming Separate Histories: Historians as ‘Ideas Traders’ in a Trans-Tasman World
Additional informationNotes on contributorsPeter HempenstallPeter Hempenstall is Professor of History at the University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand and Co-Director of the New Zealand Australia Connections Research Centre (www.nzac.canterbury.ac.nz). His most recent book (with Paula Mochida) is The Lost Man. Wilhelm Solf in German History (Wiesbaden 2005). He is currently completing (with Philippa Mein Smith) Remaking the Tasman World…
The reception of European missions in the German Pacific empire: The New Guinea experience
(1975). The reception of European missions in the German Pacific empire: The New Guinea experience. The Journal of Pacific History: Vol. 10, No. 1, pp. 46-64
The Meddlesome Priest: A Life of Ernest Burgmann
The Line of Descent: Creating Pacific Histories in Australasia
The Yin and the Yang of Wilhelm Solf: Reconstructing Colonial Superman
Wilhelm Solf is one of the ‘heroes’ of liberal historians’ representations of colonial rule in the Pacific Islands. A long line of historiography presents him as a sensitive interpreter and manipulator of Samoan culture and a skilled administrator whose reputation outlasts that of his New Zealand successors. This essay attempts a revisionist biographical analysis of his multiple identities via a critical re‐reading of Solfs relations with the whi…
Pacific Lives, Pacific Places: Bursting Boundaries in Pacific History
Over the past 50 years Pacific history has become a vast and complex field of multidisciplinary analysis ... The conference of the Pacific History Association held in 2000 provided the opportunity to re-think some of these matters"--P. [4] of cover
Australia and New Zealand: Turning Shared Pasts into a Shared History
Australia and New Zealand have a shared past, but not a shared history. A project at the University of Canterbury in New Zealand addresses this problem by exploring the relationship between the two countries on multiple levels – political, intellectual, cultural, social and economic – from the 1880s to 2000. It analyses the nature of Australia – New Zealand ties, where they are strongest and weakest, and how they have changed. The investigators a…
Overcoming Separate Histories: Historians as ‘Ideas Traders’ in a Trans-Tasman World
Additional informationNotes on contributorsPeter HempenstallPeter Hempenstall is Professor of History at the University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand and Co-Director of the New Zealand Australia Connections Research Centre (www.nzac.canterbury.ac.nz). His most recent book (with Paula Mochida) is The Lost Man. Wilhelm Solf in German History (Wiesbaden 2005). He is currently completing (with Philippa Mein Smith) Remaking the Tasman World…
Alan Dudley Ward
into one of the pioneer Pa keha families inland from Gisborne, New Zealand.It was a family for whom Poverty Bay was aptly named.Alan grew up on a small rented dairy farm.The family was not prosperous, but his parents raised Alan in an environment of stern probity
Pacific Islanders Under German Rule: A Study in the Meaning of Colonial Resistance
This is an important book. It is a reprint of the first detailed study of how Pacific Islanders responded politically and economically to their rulers across the German empire of the Pacific. Under one cover, it captures the variety of interactions between the various German colonial administrations, with their separate approaches, and the leaders and people of Samoa in
Changing Contexts, Shifting Meanings: Transformations of Cultural Traditions in Oceania
This book sheds new light on processes of cultural transformation at work in Oceania and analyzes them as products of interrelationships between culturally created meanings and specific contexts. In a series of inspiring essays, noted scholars of the region examine these interrelationships for insight into how cultural traditions are shaped on an ongoing basis.The collection marks a turning point in the debate on the conceptualization of traditio…
Mission in Ozeanien während der deutschen Kolonialzeit
The Excellenzcluster in Religion and Politics in Pre-Modern and Modern Cultures was founded at the Westfalische Wilhelms-Universitat Munster in 2007. It is the only cluster of the 43 in Germany who
Manuscript Xlii: The Cry of Mata‘afa
The ‘Cry of Mata‘afa’ is part of a long tradition of Sāmoan protests to international powers to be allowed to control their own lands and political destiny. It comes in 1899 as the Sāmoan islands are being partitioned between Germany and the United States. But it was not the end of resistance by Sāmoans to colonialist pretensions under both Germans and New Zealand. Mata‘afa Iosefo pleads for the three powers–Britain, Germany and the United States…
How Samoan Workers under Colonial Regimes Enlarged their World
Journal Article How Samoan Workers under Colonial Regimes Enlarged their World Get access Holger Droessler. Coconut Colonialism. Workers and the Globalization of Samoa. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2022. 288 pp. $39.95 (hardcover). Peter Hempenstall Peter Hempenstall [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Diplomatic History, dhad026, https://doi.org/10.1093/dh/dhad02…
John Anthony Moses (10 June 1930–30 May 2024)
John Anthony Moses, professional historian and Anglican priest, is not usually counted among the founding fathers of Pacific history, but he played a recognizable role in training students for the
Colin Newbury (1929–2025)
Colin Walter Newbury was born in Dunedin, New Zealand, on 4 March 1929.1 His father, Walter, had survived the Western Front as an under-age army volunteer as well as the Spanish flu pandemic and ma...
History (12 works) · Ancient history (6 works) · Australian History and Society (6 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Island Studies and Pacific Affairs (5 works) · Political science (5 works) · Asian American and Pacific Histories (4 works) · German (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Philosophy (4 works)