Commerce, Christianity and colonialism
The Australasian New Hebrides Company, 1883–1897
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9075221 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Roger C Thompson (Royal Military College of Canada, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1971 |
| Volume | 6 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 25-38 |
| Publication date | 1971-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Pacific History (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0022-3344 • E-ISSN: 1469-9605 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/00223347108572181 |
| OpenAlex | W2095214878 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 7 |
| References cited | 1 |
IN MELBOURNE, IN NOVEMBER 1883, A SMALL GROUP OF BUSINESSMEN AND churchmen met to consider a scheme for the advancement of British com merce and colonization in the New Hebrides. The time was one of vigorous agitation in the colony of Victoria for British annexation of these islands to forestall those who, through the agency of a new French trading and colonizing company, the Compagnie Cal?donienne des Nouvelles H?brides (C.C.N.H.), were seeking to put the group under the tricolour.1 The meeting had Before it a report from an Australian journalist, who had recently toured the New Hebrides, that the one British plantation there that had escaped the clutches of the C.C.N.H. was available for sale to an Australian company willing to use it as a base to compete with the C.C.N.H. for the economic dominance of the group.2 The meeting approved of this idea and suggested the raising of ?25,000 to finance it.3 The churchmen interested in this scheme were friends of the Presby terian mission in the New Hebrides, the largest Christian group seeking the salvation of New Hebridean souls. The Victorian Presbyterian Church had launched the agitation about the political status of the group earlier in 1883 because it feared that the mission there, for which it contributed con siderable financial support, could suffer a fate similar to that of persecuted Protestant missions in territories such as Tahiti and the Loyalty Islands pre viously taken over by France. Since economic weapons were being employed in this latest French bid for colonial expansion in the Pacific, it was thought advisable to take them up for the Presbyterian cause in the New Hebrides. The prospect, however, of investing money in land that had no secure title was too daunting for Melbourne's capitalists, especially since the British
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| Unique citing works | 7 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,13 |
| Citation span | 1974 - 2024 (51) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 6 |