Stephen Henningham
Biographic Data
| ID | 95466 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Stephen Henningham |
| GIVEN NAMES | Stephen |
| FAMILY NAME | Henningham |
| SIGNATURE | HENNINGHAM S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Australian National University |
| ORCID | 0009-0002-5703-1142 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 29 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 8 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 29 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1976 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Seeking a ‘Standard of Living at Least as High’
From around 1950 to 1964 Australia, supported by the United Kingdom and New Zealand—its partners in a United Nations trusteeship over Nauru—envisaged that the Nauruans would leave their phosphate‐rich island. Into the early 1960s the idea of resettlement helped fend off UN pressures for Nauru's political evolution. But in late 1964 the Nauruans unequivocally rejected their resettlement on Curtis Island in Queensland, opting to remain on their hom…
Not ‘Revolutionary Hopes’
After a tragic wartime experience, the Nauruans welcomed the return of Australian rule in late 1945. Australia concentrated on the prompt resumption of phosphate mining, giving Nauruan interests lower priority. Among several representations, the Nauruans petitioned the United Nations in August 1948 seeking ‘some share of administrative responsibility’. Nancy Viviani described the Nauruans later withdrawal of this petition as a ‘setback’ to their …
Whitlam and Australia’s relations with France, 1972–75
The conflict over French nuclear testing in the South Pacific has dominated discussion of Australia’s relations with France while Gough Whitlam was Prime Minister (December 1972 to November 1975). Nonetheless, other issues were also important. To an extent not previously appreciated, Whitlam took a very positive view of France, despite his opposition to French nuclear testing. He understood the implications for Australian interests of France’s le…
The Limits of Influence
From the late 1970s Australian governments (led in turn by Malcolm Fraser and Bob Hawke) expected New Caledonia to become independent. France responded with suspicion. From 1983, however, reformist governments in Australia and France took apparently converging views. But tensions rose because of unrest in New Caledonia and conflict over French nuclear testing. Australia’s limited capacity to influence developments waned further in 1986 when Jacqu…
Anxious Neighbour
In the late 1940s and the 1950s, in the context of the White Australia policy and strong anti‐Japanese sentiment, Australia mounted a successful diplomatic campaign against the use of Japanese contract labour in New Caledonia. Australia also campaigned, but with only partial success, against the use of Japanese labour in the nearby New Hebrides. These initiatives further illustrate Australia's traditional assertiveness, when it saw its interests …
Aspects of the History of South Asian History in Australia
Soundings and Echoes
Some Australian official views of New Caledonia’s Melanesians, 1941 to 1953
In the decade or so from 1941, Australian military officers and government officials paid some attention, for the first time, to the Melanesians of New Caledonia. Their comments illuminate Australian attitudes in that period, and offer perspectives on a significant stage in the history of New Caledonia, in terms particularly of the partial enfranchisement of the Melanesians
Australia's Economic Ambitions in French New Caledonia, 1945–1955
From 1945, consistent with its broader South Pacific ambitions, Australia sought to strengthen its economic position in New Caledonia. The leaders of the European-descended ‘Caledonian’ community wanted economic autonomy for the territory and improved trade with Australia. Yet the opportunity proved illusory. France remained committed to imperial preference and economic dominance. Its revival was underwritten by Marshall Plan aid, including in Ne…
La fin des Indigènes en Nouvelle-Calédonie
How can one ‘decolonise’ oneself? How far did taking part in institutional politics help emancipate the Melanesian population of New Caledonia, as most of its members experienced a process of trans
Debates and controversies testing times
The French administration, the local population and the American presence in New Caledonia, 1943-1944
Henningham Stephen. The French administration, the local population and the American presence in New Caledonia, 1943-1944. In: Journal de la Société des océanistes, 98, 1994-1. pp. 21-41
The best specimens in all our colonial domain’
France and the South Pacific
A colonial past debacle in Vanuatu New Caledonia 1945-78 - opportunities lost New Caledonia 1978-89 - the Tjibaou era French Polynesia 1945-82 - from trading colony to nuclear territory French Polynesia 1983-90 - towards independence-in-association? France's nuclear testing programme Wallis and Futuna - ripples in a backwater France and the region conclusion - the French Pacific into the 1990s
An achilles heel? Australian and New Zealand capabilities for Pacific Islands contingencies
(1993). An achilles heel? Australian and New Zealand capabilities for Pacific Islands contingencies. The Pacific Review: Vol. 6, No. 2, pp. 127-143
The Uneasy Peace
FOR MOST OF THE 1980s, bitter conflicts punctuated by open violence characterized the politics of the small French Pacific territory of New Caledonia. Over forty people were killed and property damage ran into millions of dollars. But since mid-1988, more peaceful conditions have mainly been present. The turning point came on 26 June 1988, when Michel Rocard, the socialist prime minister of France, signed agreements with the representatives of th…
Security in the Asia–pacific region
In pursuit of grandeur
Robert Aldrich. The French Presence in the South Pacific, 1842–1940. London, Macmillan, 1990. xii + 387 pp. A$49.95 (cloth). Francis Terry McNamara. France in Black Africa. Washington, National Defence University, 1989. xx + 289 pp. US$8.00 (paper) David Robie. Blood on their Banner. Nationalist Struggles in the South Pacific. Leichhardt, Pluto Press Australia, 1989. 310 pp. A$19.95 (paper)
France and the South Pacific in the 1980s
Henningham Stephen. France and the South Pacific in the 1980s : an Australian perspective. In: Journal de la Société des océanistes, 92-93, 1991-1-2. pp. 21-45
New Caledonia, 1988–91
New Caledonia
A Dialogue of the Deaf
W ITH THE FRENCH SOCIALIST GOVERNMENT elected in June 1988 implementing new policies in New Caledonia, and after the unrest of April/May 1988 which cost nearly thirty lives, the conflict in this group of one large and several small islands in the Southwest Pacific has attracted renewed outside interest. France does not welcome this attention. While their policies for New Caledonia are in contrast, both Left and Right in French politics regard the…
A response to comments on a review article on agrarian movements in Bihar, India
This rejoinder refutes the assertions made by Dr Sengupta in his comments (The Journal of Peasant Studies, Vol.12, No. 4, July 1985) on my review article on the Special Issue on ‘Agrarian Movements in Bihar’. It also argues that by failing to address squarely the issues raised in the review article, Dr Sengupta has conceded that the criticisms made are well founded.
The Agrarian question and peasant movements in twentieth‐century India
Arvind N. Das (ed.), Agrarian Movements in India: Studies on 20th Century Bihar, The Journal of Peasant Studies, Vol. 9, No. 3, Special Issue, London: Frank Cass, 1982. Pp. 152; also in hardback; £19.50. This review of a collection of studies of the turbulent Indian state of Bihar emphasises the need for a clearly defined unit of study and for an adequate analysis of social structure. The review examines the diversity of colonial era peasant move…
Bureaucracy and Control in India's Great Landed Estates
In north India in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries several great landed estates played a crucial part in the consolidation of imperial rule and in the support of the social and economic order. These estates have attracted considerable scholarly attention, but previous research has concentrated primarily on their relations with the colonial administraton and on their general intermediary role in north Indian society. The only study dir…
The Social Setting of the Champaran Satyagraha
Whitlam and Australia’s relations with France, 1972–75
The conflict over French nuclear testing in the South Pacific has dominated discussion of Australia’s relations with France while Gough Whitlam was Prime Minister (December 1972 to November 1975). Nonetheless, other issues were also important. To an extent not previously appreciated, Whitlam took a very positive view of France, despite his opposition to French nuclear testing. He understood the implications for Australian interests of France’s le…
The Limits of Influence
From the late 1970s Australian governments (led in turn by Malcolm Fraser and Bob Hawke) expected New Caledonia to become independent. France responded with suspicion. From 1983, however, reformist governments in Australia and France took apparently converging views. But tensions rose because of unrest in New Caledonia and conflict over French nuclear testing. Australia’s limited capacity to influence developments waned further in 1986 when Jacqu…
Debates and controversies testing times
An achilles heel? Australian and New Zealand capabilities for Pacific Islands contingencies
(1993). An achilles heel? Australian and New Zealand capabilities for Pacific Islands contingencies. The Pacific Review: Vol. 6, No. 2, pp. 127-143
A Dialogue of the Deaf
W ITH THE FRENCH SOCIALIST GOVERNMENT elected in June 1988 implementing new policies in New Caledonia, and after the unrest of April/May 1988 which cost nearly thirty lives, the conflict in this group of one large and several small islands in the Southwest Pacific has attracted renewed outside interest. France does not welcome this attention. While their policies for New Caledonia are in contrast, both Left and Right in French politics regard the…
Bureaucracy and Control in India's Great Landed Estates
In north India in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries several great landed estates played a crucial part in the consolidation of imperial rule and in the support of the social and economic order. These estates have attracted considerable scholarly attention, but previous research has concentrated primarily on their relations with the colonial administraton and on their general intermediary role in north Indian society. The only study dir…
The Social Setting of the Champaran Satyagraha
The contribution of “Limited Violence” to the Bihar civil disobedience movement
Agrarian Relations in North Bihar
The Raj Darbhanga and the Court of Wards, 1860-1879
Bureaucracy and Control in India's Great Landed Estates
In north India in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries several great landed estates played a crucial part in the consolidation of imperial rule and in the support of the social and economic order. These estates have attracted considerable scholarly attention, but previous research has concentrated primarily on their relations with the colonial administraton and on their general intermediary role in north Indian society. The only study dir…
The Agrarian question and peasant movements in twentieth‐century India
Arvind N. Das (ed.), Agrarian Movements in India: Studies on 20th Century Bihar, The Journal of Peasant Studies, Vol. 9, No. 3, Special Issue, London: Frank Cass, 1982. Pp. 152; also in hardback; £19.50. This review of a collection of studies of the turbulent Indian state of Bihar emphasises the need for a clearly defined unit of study and for an adequate analysis of social structure. The review examines the diversity of colonial era peasant move…
A response to comments on a review article on agrarian movements in Bihar, India
This rejoinder refutes the assertions made by Dr Sengupta in his comments (The Journal of Peasant Studies, Vol.12, No. 4, July 1985) on my review article on the Special Issue on ‘Agrarian Movements in Bihar’. It also argues that by failing to address squarely the issues raised in the review article, Dr Sengupta has conceded that the criticisms made are well founded.
A Dialogue of the Deaf
W ITH THE FRENCH SOCIALIST GOVERNMENT elected in June 1988 implementing new policies in New Caledonia, and after the unrest of April/May 1988 which cost nearly thirty lives, the conflict in this group of one large and several small islands in the Southwest Pacific has attracted renewed outside interest. France does not welcome this attention. While their policies for New Caledonia are in contrast, both Left and Right in French politics regard the…
New Caledonia
Security in the Asia–pacific region
In pursuit of grandeur
Robert Aldrich. The French Presence in the South Pacific, 1842–1940. London, Macmillan, 1990. xii + 387 pp. A$49.95 (cloth). Francis Terry McNamara. France in Black Africa. Washington, National Defence University, 1989. xx + 289 pp. US$8.00 (paper) David Robie. Blood on their Banner. Nationalist Struggles in the South Pacific. Leichhardt, Pluto Press Australia, 1989. 310 pp. A$19.95 (paper)
France and the South Pacific in the 1980s
Henningham Stephen. France and the South Pacific in the 1980s : an Australian perspective. In: Journal de la Société des océanistes, 92-93, 1991-1-2. pp. 21-45
New Caledonia, 1988–91
An achilles heel? Australian and New Zealand capabilities for Pacific Islands contingencies
(1993). An achilles heel? Australian and New Zealand capabilities for Pacific Islands contingencies. The Pacific Review: Vol. 6, No. 2, pp. 127-143
The Uneasy Peace
FOR MOST OF THE 1980s, bitter conflicts punctuated by open violence characterized the politics of the small French Pacific territory of New Caledonia. Over forty people were killed and property damage ran into millions of dollars. But since mid-1988, more peaceful conditions have mainly been present. The turning point came on 26 June 1988, when Michel Rocard, the socialist prime minister of France, signed agreements with the representatives of th…
The French administration, the local population and the American presence in New Caledonia, 1943-1944
Henningham Stephen. The French administration, the local population and the American presence in New Caledonia, 1943-1944. In: Journal de la Société des océanistes, 98, 1994-1. pp. 21-41
The best specimens in all our colonial domain’
France and the South Pacific
A colonial past debacle in Vanuatu New Caledonia 1945-78 - opportunities lost New Caledonia 1978-89 - the Tjibaou era French Polynesia 1945-82 - from trading colony to nuclear territory French Polynesia 1983-90 - towards independence-in-association? France's nuclear testing programme Wallis and Futuna - ripples in a backwater France and the region conclusion - the French Pacific into the 1990s
Debates and controversies testing times
Australia's Economic Ambitions in French New Caledonia, 1945–1955
From 1945, consistent with its broader South Pacific ambitions, Australia sought to strengthen its economic position in New Caledonia. The leaders of the European-descended ‘Caledonian’ community wanted economic autonomy for the territory and improved trade with Australia. Yet the opportunity proved illusory. France remained committed to imperial preference and economic dominance. Its revival was underwritten by Marshall Plan aid, including in Ne…
La fin des Indigènes en Nouvelle-Calédonie
How can one ‘decolonise’ oneself? How far did taking part in institutional politics help emancipate the Melanesian population of New Caledonia, as most of its members experienced a process of trans
Some Australian official views of New Caledonia’s Melanesians, 1941 to 1953
In the decade or so from 1941, Australian military officers and government officials paid some attention, for the first time, to the Melanesians of New Caledonia. Their comments illuminate Australian attitudes in that period, and offer perspectives on a significant stage in the history of New Caledonia, in terms particularly of the partial enfranchisement of the Melanesians
Anxious Neighbour
In the late 1940s and the 1950s, in the context of the White Australia policy and strong anti‐Japanese sentiment, Australia mounted a successful diplomatic campaign against the use of Japanese contract labour in New Caledonia. Australia also campaigned, but with only partial success, against the use of Japanese labour in the nearby New Hebrides. These initiatives further illustrate Australia's traditional assertiveness, when it saw its interests …
Aspects of the History of South Asian History in Australia
Soundings and Echoes
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