A Good Moral Effect

Local opposition and colonial persistence in Malakula, New Hebrides, 1875-1918

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ID4819404
AuthorsBedford (0000-0001-6476-5617, corresponding author), Stuart Bedford
Year2017
Volume18
Issue1
Publication date2017-01-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueJournal of Colonialism and Colonial History (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1532-5768 • E-ISSN: 1532-5768
PublisherProject MUSE (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1353/cch.2017.0003
OpenAlexW2606007893
LanguageEN
Citations received2
References cited12

Physical clashes between Europeans and Indigenous populations across the islands of the New Hebrides/Nouvelles-Hébrides (now Vanuatu) date from the earliest contacts. As outsiders settled there from the 1840s and European empires encroached on and carved up the Pacific Islands, such clashes became more frequent and more lethal. On the island of Malakula, effective opposition to colonization and associated punitive expeditions continued for generations. This paper provides a short history of such clashes and the underlying influences which led to a state of colonial exhaustion in relation to punitive expeditions against Malakulans

Archaeology · Biology · Colonialism · Colonization · Ethnology · Genealogy · Geography · Indigenous · New Hebrides · Political science · Politics · Punitive damages · Sociology · Asian American and Pacific Histories · Demography · History · Island Studies and Pacific Affairs · Law · Pacific and Southeast Asian Studies · Ecology

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