Tulagi : Pacific outpost of British empire /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:Moore, Clive, author.
Imprint:Acton, ACT : ANU Press, [2019]
Description:1 online resource (xxviii, 448 pages) : illustrations
Language:English
Series:Pacific series
Pacific series.
Subject:World War, 1939-1945 -- Solomon Islands.
Guerre mondiale, 1939-1945 -- Salomon.
History / Australia & New Zealand.
British colonies.
Colonial influence.
Solomon Islands -- History -- 20th century.
Great Britain -- Islands of the Pacific -- Colonies.
Islands of the Pacific -- Colonial influence.
Salomon -- Histoire -- 20e siècle.
Grande-Bretagne -- Colonies.
Pacifique, Îles du -- Influence coloniale.
Pacific Ocean -- Islands of the Pacific.
Solomon Islands.
Electronic books.
History.
Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11965595
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Other authors / contributors:Australian National University Press.
ISBN:9781760463083
1760463086
9781760463090
1760463094
Digital file characteristics:data file
Notes:Includes bibliographical references (pages 415-448).
Summary:Tulagi was the capital of the British Solomon Islands Protectorate between 1897 and 1942. The British withdrawal from the island during the Pacific War, its capture by the Japanese and the American reconquest left the island's facilities damaged beyond repair. After the war, Britain moved the capital to the American military base on Guadalcanal, which became Honiara. The Tulagi settlement was an enclave of several small islands, the permanent population of which was never more than 600: 300 foreigners--one-third of European origin and most of the remainder Chinese--and an equivalent number of Solomon Islanders. Thousands of Solomon Islander males also passed through on their way to work on plantations and as boat crews, hospital patients and prisoners. The history of the Tulagi enclave provides an understanding of the origins of modern Solomon Islands. Tulagi was also a significant outpost of the British Empire in the Pacific, which enables a close analysis of race, sex and class and the process of British colonisation and government in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
Other form:1-76046-308-6