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Mangilao, Guam University of Guam, Micronesian Area Research Center 2009 1st Edition Hardcover VG+ in VG- jacket Book. 4to-over 9¾-12" tall. Hardback bound in blue paper-covered boards with white titles. Book has a very slight touch of wear at spine. The dust jacket has wear at top of spine. For more than two thousand years the Samoan Islands were among the most forgotten places on earth, but by the late nineteenth century they suddenly attracted the attention of some of the most powerful nations on the globe. Germany and the United Kingdom became interested in the western islands, but it was the U.S. that eventually obtained suzerainty over Pago Pago harbor on the island of Tutuila in the east and began its one and only South Seas colonial experiment. In the Pacific and elsewhere, native populations have traditionally and actively sought independence from their invasive colonial co-partners or have, at the very least, passively but begrudgingly tolerated them. But the relationships between the Samoans of the eastern islands and their American administrators were remarkably different: The Samoans chose boycott over outright belligerence and elected to outlast (and sometimes outwit) their colonial partners while pressing for changes that would bring them into the American family. The story of how this all came about was not without its share of problems, but colonial neglect, native resistance, two world wars, and even administrative madness did not derail an association th ...

ISBN10: 0980033152, ISBN13: 9780980033151, [publisher: University of Guam, Micronesian Area Research Center, Mangilao, Guam] Hardcover First Edition Hardback bound in blue paper-covered boards with white titles. Book has a very slight touch of wear at spine. The dust jacket has wear at top of spine. For more than two thousand years the Samoan Islands were among the most forgotten places on earth, but by the late nineteenth century they suddenly attracted the attention of some of the most powerful nations on the globe. Germany and the United Kingdom became interested in the western islands, but it was the U.S. that eventually obtained suzerainty over Pago Pago harbor on the island of Tutuila in the east and began its one and only South Seas colonial experiment. In the Pacific and elsewhere, native populations have traditionally and actively sought independence from their invasive colonial co-partners or have, at the very least, passively but begrudgingly tolerated them. But the relationships between the Samoans of the eastern islands and their American administrators were remarkably different: The Samoans chose boycott over outright belligerence and elected to outlast (and sometimes outwit) their colonial partners while pressing for changes that would bring them into the American family. The story of how this all came about was not without its share of problems, but colonial neglect, native resistance, two world wars, and even administrative madness did not derail an ...
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ISBN10: 0980033152, ISBN13: 9780980033151, [publisher: University of Guam, Mangilao, Guam.] Hardcover First Edition xix, 245pp, glossary, index, bibliography, bw ills, endpaper maps. Or cloth boards in jacket. Minor bump to bottom corner. American Samoa and its relationship with the USA. Size: 4to
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Mangilao, Guam. University of Guam 2009 First Edition Hard Cover Very Good in Very Good jacket 4to. xix, 245pp, glossary, index, bibliography, bw ills, endpaper maps. Or cloth boards in jacket. Minor bump to bottom corner. American Samoa and its relationship with the USA.

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