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 th

The German Colonial Experience provides readers with an understanding of how the Germans gained, explored, pacified, ruled, and exploited their colonies prior t

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"Hezel has written an authoritative and engaging narrative of [a] succession of colonial regimes, drawing upon a broad range of published and archival sources a