Specters of Violence in a Colonial Context : New Caledonia, 1917 /

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During 1917-1918, war ravaged the hill country north of New Caledonia's main island, the Grande terre. Occurring sixty-four years after France's 1853 annexation of New Caledonia and in the midst of the Great War of 1914-1918, the conflict was known by the mid-twentieth century as "the...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Muckle, Adrian
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Honolulu : University of Hawaiʻi Press, 2012.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Violence.
Kanak (New Caledonian people) > Politics and government.
HISTORY > Oceania.
Violence > Nouvelle-Caledonie.
Violence > New Caledonia.
New Caledonia.
New Caledonia > History > 20th century.
History.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Settler specters of Kanak revolt
  • Specters of colonial violence
  • The war
  • Of allies and enemies
  • Containing and mobilizing colonial violence
  • End and aftermath : reshaping power relations
  • The administrative and judicial framing of 1917
  • The "last of the Kanak revolts?"

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