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HIST213 Pacific History

10 cp
Prerequisites 10 cp from 100-level units in History
Teaching Organisation 3 hours per week for twelve weeks or equivalent of lectures, tutorials and seminars.

This unit covers the history of the peoples of Polynesia, Melanesia and Micronesia. It surveys the origins of Pacific peoples, pre-colonial societies, European intrusion, indigenous responses to strangers, trade and religious interactions, labour recruiting and indenture, patterns of colonial rule, responses to colonialism and change in Pacific island societies, pathways to independence, and the economic, social, ethnic political and environmental issues facing independent Pacific nations.

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