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aborigines 13, 162

archeological evidence of 163

contacts with Makassan peoples 173

continuance of culture 170

dispossession by colonial settlers 169,

170

the Dreaming 163–4

legends and rise in sea levels 163

skirmishes overBritish land claims168–9

smallpox epidemic 169

territorial claims 361

Abu Zayd al-Hasan, geographer 39

Acapulco, and galleon trade 115, 122

connection of Hispanic world

to China 122

decline of 126

economy of 122

adat, manipulation of 271

and Islamic law 273

Afo, clove tree, significance of 74, 79

Aguinaldo, General Emilio 253

and Philippine–American war 255

surrender to US 255

US promises to 254–5

Ahmad ibn Majid, reputation as

navigator 49

and Vasco da Gama 49

Ahutoru, voyage to France 135

return home 136

air travel, legacy of Pacific War 348

Akaka, Daniel, election to US Senate 363

opposition from Hawaiian rights

activists 363

Albuquerque, Alfonso de

anti-piracy collusion and mission to

China 90

conquest of Malacca 51, 53

establishment of control 53

and Magellan 56

Algeria, French nuclear testing in 318

ali‘i, of Hawai‘i 127

Alisi’s narrative 1

Allardyce, Sir William, Fijian

collection 262

Allen, Colonel Stephen, Samoan youth

development 268

Amakusa Shiro, and Shimabara Rebellion

100–1

American bases in Pacific War 294

soldiers’ trade in local artifacts 290

Tannese ritual mimicry 294

American Board of Commissions for

Foreign Missions (ABCFM),

plan for base in Hawai‘i 153

Antarctica, Cook’s voyage to 138

anthropology, and colonial projects 257

see also Malinowski; Manilal; Mead;

Murray; Williams

Anti-Slavery Society 265

Aotearoa

and Abel Tasman 85

and Waitangi Day Sequence 364

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apartheid, protests at Springboks tour

365–6

Apolosi Nawai, anticolonial business plan

262–3, 269

trial for fraud 264

Aquino, Benigno, shooting of 357

Aquino, Corazon

focus of national pride 357–8

importance of overseas workers to

economy 359

and People Power 358

Arab merchants, in Canton 177

ariki (memory men), training of 19

arms and ideology, alliance of 91–3

arquebus, impact of 91–3

Japanese copies of 91

Asian Tigers 369

and Financial Crisis 371–2

Asian values 343

Atai, Chief, legacy of 214

Atlasov, Vladimir, and Kamchatka

Peninsula 139

atomic bomb, and Japanese

capitulation 291

atomic weapons, testing of 316

in Bikini Atoll 316

opposition from Pacific Islanders 318

concerns in Australia and New

Zealand 318

global outrage at 318

hydrogen bomb 317

see also South Pacific Nuclear Free

Zone

Australia

Chinese immigrants in 169

Commonwealth of 170

first colonial settlement 161

as penal colony 165

and free immigrants 169

Japanese bombing of 279–80

Mabo court ruling 162

northern link to Austronesian

ancestors 170

evidence of links to other worlds 171

Pacific Solution to Tampa refugees 335

Port Jackson (Sydney) 161

protests against French nuclear

testing 318

Hawke’s treaty proposal 321

and sandalwood trade with

China 176–7

UK nuclear testing in 318

see also aborigines; terra nullius

Australian Colonial Sugar Refining

Company 225

Austronesian global distribution 15, 29

Austronesian warrior culture 107

Baab, Sultan, meeting with Drake 114

resistance to Portuguese spice

traders 76

Bainimarama, Commodore Voreqe,

martial law in Fiji 309

Bali, history and tourism 353

bombs in Kuta 353

memory site 353

Banda Aceh 11

banditry, legends of 111

Banks, Joseph, botanic investigations 136

and Tupaia 137

barangay 15

Barkley, Frances, and Winee 188

Bashir, Abu Bakar, and Kuta bomb 353

Bataan Death March 279

Bataillon du Pacifique 287

Batavia, commercial interests in 80–1

founding of 78

growth under VOC 79–80

population of 80

Battle of Midway 286

Battle of the Coral Sea 286

Baudin, Nicholas 171

Bavarda, Dr Timoci, leadership in

Fiji 308

Bay of Islands

conflicts between whalers and

missionaries 157

settlements in 159, 204

see also Hone Heke

beachcombers 146

capture of David and Young 154

Bellamy, Raynor, and Trobriands 260

Belo, Carlos Filipe Ximenes, Nobel Peace

Prize 374

Bennett, George, examples of primeval

nature 216

Bering, Vitus, Russian exploration

of North Pacific 139

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Bernart, Luelen, oral histories of

Pohnpei 26

bicentenary celebrations 174–5

Vanua Levu (Fiji), and sandalwood

cutters 176

Bidong, government refugee camp in 338

communities and resettlement 339

Bikini Atoll, Marshall Islands, nuclear

testing in

removal of population 316

unsustainability of new home 316

return to Bikini and radiation

levels 316

continued testing 318

Nuclear Claims Tribunal 316

Bingham, Hiram, mission to Hawaiian

islands 153

Bismarck, Chancellor Otto von, and

empire 229

blackbirding 220

and Cakobau 223–4

and Murray 221

and War of the Pacific 227

Blainey, Geoffrey 164

Bligh, Captain William

arrest of 165

and mutiny on The Bounty 141–3

boat people, see refugees and asylum

seekers

Bohlen, Jim, and Greenpeace 319

Boki, governor of Oahu

and Erromangan sandalwood 189, 216

Polynesian superiority over Melanesia

217

bones, use for tools 85

Bonifacio, Andres, and Katipunan 253

and Rizal 253

Borneo

Brooke’s expedition to 200–1

Dutch policy in 200

Borobudur temple 34

Bouchard, Hyppolite, attacks on

California 126

Bougainville

Australian transfer of authority to

Papua New Guinea 330

Bougainville Catholic Women’s

Federation 332

and Canadian mining company 333

civil war in 332

effect of copper mine on land 330,

331–2

and New Panguna Landowners

Association 332

Rio Tinto suveys in Panguna

region 329

withdrawal of Australian support for

Papua New Guinea 333

Bougainville, Louis Antoine de 133

and Ahutoru 135

and Tahitian paradise 134

Boxer Rebellion 269

breadfruit, British imperial vision 141–3

Brooke, James, expedition to Kalimantan

(Borneo) 200–1

legacy of 202

meeting with Sejugah 201

White Rajah of Sarawak 201

Brunei, Sultan of, and Indonesian

territory 200

and Brooke 201

Bryant, Mary, escape from penal

colony 166

Buddha 31; see also Borobudur temple

Budi Utomo 272

Bugis parties, and Dutch shipping 112

Bureau of Non-Christian Tribes 257

Burma, Japanese occupation of 279

Burma–Thailand railway 282

Bush, George, and Kuta memory

site 353

Bwarat, Chief, and mission in Balade 213

Cakobau, Chief, debts to US 223

and Polynesia Company 223

signing over of Fiji to Britain 223–4

Californian gold rush 244–5

effects on Pacific economies 245

Callao, and Pizarro 65

and Thor Heyerdahl 65–6

Canadian Rural Advancement

Foundation, Hagahai genetic

material 368

cannibal tours 351

cannibalism

by Japanese troops 286

in Rarotonga 144

canoes, and voyaging tradition 15–16

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Canton (Guangzhou)

and Canton system 178

mix of Sino-Occidental culture 183

entrepot of Pacific trade 177

exchange and negotiation on the

water 180

expansion of foreign trade in 177–8

Spanish connection 178

factory district 180

foreign merchants in 177

global marketplace 178–80

mix of anonymous islanders in 184

and officialdom 180

and opium wars 194

see also compradors

cargo cults 294

challenges to European rule 296

explanations of colonial society 295

Vailala Madness 295

Carl, the, and blackbirding 221

Carteret, Philip 133

Catholicism

conversion of Rajah Humabon 57

influence in Malacca 54

in Philippines 60

see also Christianity in Pacific

Cavendish, Thomas, capture of Santa

Ana 115

Chan, Julius, and Sandline mercenaries

333

Chaudhry, Mahendra, overthrow by

George Speight 309

Cheever, Reverend Henry, and whaling

185

Chen Di, and Austronesian aborigines

107

Chene, Jean, and Mendon 214

Cheng I Sao, and pirate confederation 110

reputation of 110

withdrawal of 111

Chiang Kai-Shek, and Republic of China

in Taiwan 299

Chicago Field Museum, and Jones 256

Chile, gold-seeking legends 245

China

accessibility through Canton

system 178

demands for social reform 195

English as barbarians 192

environmental devastation in 376

global economic power 370

and Coastal Development

Strategy 370

recapture of traditional position

370–1

and Ibn Battuta 43

and Mao Zedong 299

withdrawal of naval patrols after

Zheng He 104

see also Ming Dynasty

China Poblana, see San Juan, Catarina de

Chincha Islands War 226

Chinese mestizos, in Philippines 125–6

Chirac, Jacques, and Tahitian opposition

to nuclear testing 322

Choiseul, Duchess of, and Ahutoru 135

Choson Dynasty, and Confucian

culture 95

Christian, Fletcher, and mutiny on the

Bounty 143

Christianity in Pacific 145, 152

belief in status and prosperity

149, 151

and disasters 149, 156

idea of fallen paradise 145

reception of 148

see also Catholicism; Hawai‘i; literacy;

London Mission Society

Cleveland, President Grover, restoration

of Queen Lili‘uokalani 250

cloves 75

control by VOC 79

coastal Sultanates 42

coastwatchers, of Solomon Islands 288

coconut palm, importance to Oceania 229

legend of Sina 229

Coen, Jan Pieterzoon 77

founding of Batavia 78

imprisonment of Schouten and

Le Mare 83–4

massacre in Banda Islands 78

Co-Hong 181

decline of 182, 194

Cokroaminoto, Haji Umar Said, and

Sarekat Islam 273–4

colonial settlements, dependence on

East–West trade 115

comfort stations 283

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Asia Women’s Fund 284

and kidnapping 283

and colonial subjects 283

postwar legal claims against Japan 284

commonwealth, plans for 303

compradors (in Canton)

global connections of 182

management role 182

mix of East and West religion and

education 183

takeover of Co-Hong 194

wealth of 183

Confucius 29, 95

conservation politics 324–5

Contemplacion, Flor, protest at hanging

of 355, 359

return of body to San Pablo 360

convicts, settlement in Botany Bay 161

land grants in Aboriginal territory

168–9

lives of 165, 166, 167

profiteering by governors 165

resistance to British government

165–6

see also Bryant; Kable; Pugh; Randall;

Reibey

Cook, James 7, 145, 153

death of 141

navigation of 136–7, 161

east coast of Australia 165

first voyage 137

and Tupaia 137–8

second voyage to Antarctica 138

and Omai 138

third voyage to find Northwest

Passage 138–9

anchorage at Kealakekua Bay 140

return to Kealakekua Bay 140

Cooper, Whina, and Maori land

alienation 328

Maori Land March 329

copra 229

Cortes, Hernan 66

cotton 181

and American Civil War 219

Cox, John Henry, fur trading 187

Crook, William, and LMS 146

Cuba, and Spanish–American War 250

Cultivation System, failure of 200

Cultural and Intellectual Property Rights

of Indigenous Peoples,

Conference on 367

and bio piracy 367

D’Urville, Jules Dumont, regions of

Pacific islands 3

Da Gama, Vasco 65

and Ahmad ibn Majid 49

expeditions to India 51

Dafal, discovery of Tasaday people 345

daimyo 91

Dampier, William 165, 170

and Jeoly 129–30

Darwin, Charles

evolution of species 217

and Galapagos Islands 217

theory of coral atolls and receding

volcanic cone 12

Dayak leaders, and Brooke 201–2

de Sequeira, Diogo Lopes 51

control of spice and silk routes 54

decolonization, conference in

Bandung 303

and Tonga 304

Deng Xiaoping, Chinese economic

priorities 370

Deshima island, Dutch compound in 101

spread of Dutch learning 101–2

Despointes, Admiral Febvrier, mission to

New Caledonia and Isles of

Pines 212

development policies, and cultures in

tension 325

see also Bougainville; Cooper; Orang

Laut; tourism; tradition; tuna

fishing industry; Waitangi

Tribunal

Dewey, Commodore George, and

Spanish–American War 251

Diderot, Denis 134

Dipanagara, protest at Dutch project

199–200

Diversa Corporation, genetic technology

and heritage controversy 367

DNA, legal ownership of 368

Pacific-wide cooperation and treaty 368

Dobunaba, Felicia, Beijing appeal 333

Dole, Sanford B., republic of Hawai‘i 250

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Drake, Francis

raiding of Spanish ships 114–15

voyage from South America to

Ternate 114

Du Fresne, Marion, and Ahutoru 136

Duff, Alan 307

Duna, Alfred, experience of Japanese

occupation 286

Dupetit-Thouars, Admiral Abel, in

Marquesas Islands 206

voyage to Tahiti 207–8

Dutch East India Company (VOC)

7, 73, 77

agreement with British over Manhattan

Island 78

and Aotearoa 85

authority of 77

and changing trade in nineteenth

century 198–9

control of commerce 80–1

decision to explore Japan 87

exclusive interest in trade 99

and Fort Zeelandia (Taiwan) 107

growth of Batavia 79–80

and Korean pottery 97

market monopoly of cloves and

nutmeg 79

massacre of Banda Islanders 78

missions to Cipangu 87

and raids by Sultan Mahmud 112

resistance to 81–2, 84

rise of interest in China and Japan 88

and Zheng Zhilong 108, 109

Dutch interests in Pacific 73

decline of 199

and British control of Java 199

in Japan 99, 101

in Northern Australia 173

Dutch traders, and Spice Islands 76–7

see also Dutch East India Company

East India Company

and Lee Boo 183–4

and opium trading 192

breaking of monopoly 193

East Timor

and decolonization 373

massacre in Dili 374

Tetum nationalists 373

vote for independence 374

Eknilang, Lijon, sufferings from nuclear

testing 320

El Nino 64

and Catholic faith 64

Elekana, use of literacy 151–2

Elizade, Manuel Jr. and Tasaday people

345, 346–7

empire, British and French claims in

nineteenth century 198

Enata people

competition between 70

encounters with Spanish 68

records of 68–70

tapus (taboos) of 68

Endeavour, the 161

bicentennial celebrations 162, 175

Maori protest 162

Enewetak Atoll, US nuclear testing

in 318

environmental organizations, and

backlash from industry and

consumerism 344–5

Erromanga, and sandalwood 216

Ethical Policy, in Dutch-ruled Indonesia,

focus on women 271

see also Kartini

Eurasian population, in Batavia 80

Europe, war in, and spread of Japanese

empire 278

European maritime expansion 50

Exclusion Acts and Chinese

immigration 246

Faranda 97

Fifi‘i, Jonathan, influence of black US

military 290, 296

formation of Maasina Rule 296–7

Fiji

advancement through native

administration 262

fiction of romanticized tradition 264

Great Council of Chiefs 224, 262

and migration from British

colonies 224

independence of 308

Indian communities in 264–5, 269

separation from Melanesian

Fijians 308

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land deals with settlers 191

military takeover of 308

and sandalwood trade 189

tales of origins 9

trade with Tonga 28

violence of trade in people 219–20

see also Apolosi; Cakobau; Gordon;

indenture system; Manilal; sugar

plantations; trepang

Filipino workers abroad 356

balikbayan 357

importance to economy 359

lack of respect for 359

in Mexico 120–1

sailors, in New World 119

see also Contemplacion, Flor

Finney, Dr Ben, and Tommy Holmes,

and Hokule‘a 305

Finschhafen station 230

Bongu and Gorendu village life 230

workers and violence on plantations

230

see also Sepik art

Flinders, Captain Matthew,

circumnavigation of Australia

171–3

Forsayth, Emma, entrepreneur 231–2

Franco-Tahitian war 208–9

French ambition in Pacific 206–9

Indochina 210

Melanesia 212

see also Vietnam

friars, influence in Philippines 61

Fukuryu Maru, the, and contaminated

fishermen 317

Fukuzawa Yukichi, and Japanese

reform 238

fur trade 187

circuit of 178

commercial shipping 187

monopoly of East India and South Sea

Companies 188

Nootka Sound and Nuu-chah-nulth

people 187

Futuna, and Schouten and LeMaire 83

Fuzzy Wuzzy Angels 287–8

Gainza, Francisco 111

galleon system 127

cargoes 116

effect on Pacific cultures 117–19

end of merchant monopoly 125, 126

Manila–Acapulco trade, andCanton178

and maritime archeology 116

and Pacific trade 115

and parallel worlds of Pacific Islanders

128–9

spread of culture and skills 116–17

travel on galleons 117

Gandhi, Mohandas K., and Manilal 265

Gap-Sin coup, failure of 239–40

Garanger, Jose, search for Roy Mata’s

burial place 72

Gauguin, Paul 209–10

Gaytan, Juan 127

geographical knowledge, of Pacific 2,

72–3

geological records, and origins of islands

11–12

German colonial and commercial

ambitions 229–31

German Samoa, rule by New Zealand

266

see also Logan; Mau movement;

Richardson

Gibbon, Edward, claims on Maori

land 204

Gilbert Islands, and Hawai‘i’s

protection 242

glacial maximum 12

global economy, importance of galleon

trade to 116–17

global warming, and disappearance of

islands 375–6

Godeffroy, J. C. and Son of Hamburg,

trade in Samoa 228–9

establishments in Marshall and

Caroline Islands 232

trade dominance 229

godly mechanics, see LMS

Goiti, Marshall Martin de 58–60

Gordon, Sir Arthur, and Great Council

of Chiefs 224, 262

migration of labor from India 224

Gordon-Cummings, Constance 262

Goto Taketaro, and Suzuki Tsunenori,

investigation in Marshall

Islands 232

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Grace, Patricia 307

Grand Canal, re-engineering of 47

Great Southern Continent, search for 66

effect of European wars on 73

and Quiros 71

and Van Diemen 84

Greenpeace, sailing to atomic test site 319

see also Rainbow Warrior

Grotius, Hugo, and liberum mare 125

Guam

battles with Spanish 118

Chamorro cultures in 118

loss of 118

and Magellan’s voyage 57

opposition to US military presence

in 323

and Spanish galleons 115

Guano Island Act 226

Guatama, Siddhartha, see Buddha

Guillain, Charles and Utopian

socialism 213

Habibie, B. J. and Asian crisis 372

and East Timor 373

Haddon, Alfred Court 258

Haeckel, Ernest Heinrich, and Lemuria 12

Hai-Loc, petition for child support 211

Haka‘iki, chiefs of Enata 68

Hakena, Helen, and Leitana Nehau 333

Haku‘ole, James, immigrant worker

program in Hawai‘i 246

Harappa, city of 31

Harbottle, Isaac, immigrant worker

program in Hawai‘i 246

Harris, Townsend, trade agreement with

Japan 238

resulting violence 238

Hassim, Rajah Mudah of Sarawak, and

Brooke 201–2

Hati Marege, the, and Yolngu and

Makassans 170, 175

Hau‘ofa, Epeli 3–5, 306–7

Hawai‘i

claims for sovereignty 362

Clinton’s apology to 362

and Cook 139, 140

culture of 127–8

effect of American and Asian business

on 305

effect of Christian mission on 155–6

support for 157

and galleon routes 127

Great Mahele 241

incorporation into US 304

kapu (taboo) system 127, 155

legacy of Lili‘uokalani 304

legal code 156

occupation of Kaho‘olawe 305

revolutionary change in 153

US interests in 249, 250, 251

see also Akaka; Ka‘ahumanu;

Kapiolani; Pearl Harbor

Hawai‘iloa 306

Hawke, Joe, occupation of Bastion

Point 329

eviction by New Zealand troops 329

Henry, Captain Samuel P., search for

sandalwood 189, 216

Hertogh, Maria, conflicts over differing

traditions 297

marriage to Muslim 297

in Netherlands 298

and rioting in Singapore 298

Heyerdahl, Thor, Kon Tiki

expedition 65–6

Hill, Admiral Harry, assault on

Tinian 280

Hirado, Dutch factory in 99

and Shimabara Rebellion 100

and Wako 102

Hiroshima, and atom bomb 291, 315

Hitoshi, General Imamura, and Japanese

invasion of Indonesia 275

Ho Chi Minh 212, 275, 299

and Vietnam War 278, 336

Hokule‘a, launching of 305–6

arrival in Tahiti 306

see also Mau Piailug

Hone Heke, signing of Treaty of Waitangi

203, 204, 206

complaints against British 204

and Kororareka flagstaff 205

war with British 205

Hong Kong

and Britain 1, 194

transfer to China 368, 369–70

historical meaning 370

global entrepot 369

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international population of 368

Japanese occupation of 369

Hong merchants 181

wealth of 181

see also Howqua

Hongi Hika, travels of 203

return to Bay of Islands 204

Hoppo, the, 181

and Hong merchants 181

Horta, Jose Ramos, Nobel Peace

Prize 374

Houtman, Cornelis de 73

Houtman, Frederik de, dispute with

Muslim authorities 77

Howard, John, refugee policy 336

Kuta memorial 353

Howqua (Wu Bingjian) 182

credit ventures and global

connections 182

Hudson’s Bay Company, and

MacDonald 233

Humabon, Rajah, and Magellan’s

voyage 57

conversion to Catholicism 57

Hussein, Tengku, exile of 197

and Raffles 197

Iatmul villages 231

Ibn Battuta, description of voyages 42–3

Ibn Khurdadhbih 33

Idhet Mound, history of Pohnpei 26

Ienaga Saburo, revision of historical

texts 342

Illustrados 251

Ilongots

Jones’ demand for boats 256

reprisal by Philippine constabulary 257

Imjin Wars (Pottery Wars), legacy of 96

Inca, link with Polynesians 66

indenture system, in Fiji

abolition of 265

Manilal’s reports on 265

independence, and weakening colonial

government 298

and Cold War 298–9

imperial legacies and political

change 299

India, environmental devastation in 376

Indian and Buddhist civilizations 31

influence through spice routes 32

see also Yi Jing

Indian culture, in California 119

Indian Imperial Association, reports on

conditions in Fiji 265

Indian labor in Fiji, and the girmit 224

racial separation from Fijians 225

Indonesia

break between East and West Java 300

British forces in 300

Dutch withdrawal from 301

Japanese forces in 275

Linggajati Agreement 300

Muslim population and global

networks 273

National Revolution 36, 300

oil from 278

rare spices of 31

rioting and Asian financial crisis 372

seaborne Islamic civilization 42

UN condemnation of Dutch 301

see also Budi Utomo; Ethical Policy;

Kartini

influenza epidemic, in Samoa 267

injustice, and global inequities of

twentieth century 360

see also New Zealand; Cultural and

Intellectual Property Rights of

Indigenous Peoples; Kanahele;

Mabo; Maori activists

Inui Genjiro, in Guadalcanal 280

Ioete, Chief, and French invasion 206

Iranum pirate 103, 111

Iskandar Shah, Sultan of Malacca

(formerly Parameswara) 42

court of 38

and Malacca 37–8

tributes to Zheng He 44, 46

Islam

emergence in Indonesia 36

in Malacca 39

spread of 41–2

and status 43–4

in Sumatra 41, 43

see also Ibn Battuta; Muslim traders

island trade, betweenOceania andAsia177

see also Canton

islands fished up and thrown down 11

Iwo Jima, civilian slaughter in 290

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Jabidah commandos, rebellion against

killing of fellow Muslims 340

Jagos, banditry around Indonesia 111

Janszoon, Willem, and exploration of

Australia 165, 171

Japan

2011 earthquake 11

anti-nuclear rallies in 320

collision of interests in sixteenth

century 89

denial of history 342

loss of Christian empire 102

postwar consumerism 344

sakoku policy

American and British expeditions

to 234, 237

closure of ports to outsiders 233

ending of isolation 238

and MacDonald 234

missionary expedition to 234

Russian expedition to 234

see also Ienaga Saburo; Japanese

expansion of empire; Meiji

Restoration; Perry; Shimabara

Rebellion; Treaty of Kanagawa

Japanese expansion of empire

attack at Port Arthur 276

breakdown of relations 277–8

common Asian ancestry 276

move of war to Pacific islands 278–9

offenses by allied forces 286

preparation for invasion by allies 291

Russian challenge to 276

takeover of Korea 276

treaty of surrender 291

war in Europe 278

see also kamikaze fighters; Second

World War; sexual slavery

Java, British control of 199

defeat of Dipanagara 199–200

see also Indonesia

Jemaah Islamiyah 352

and bomb in Kuta 353

Jeoly, the “Painted Prince,” and

Dampier 130

Jesuits, influence in Japan, see Hideyoshi;

Nagasaki; Sumitada; Xavier

John Frum followers 294

and cargo cult 295, 296

Johnson, Lyndon, and Vietnam War 336

Johnston Atoll, UK nuclear testing

in 318

Jones, William, and Luzon Province

Ilongots 256

ties between anthropology and

government 257

transcultural background 256

Joyoboyo, King and prophet 275

Ka Lahui 362

Ka Pakaukan 362

Ka‘ahumanu, Queen, abolition of kapu

system 155

Kable, Henry, convict to landowner 167

Kaho‘olawe

and celestial navigation 305–6

occupation of 305

Kahuna, of Hawai‘i 127

Ka‘iana, Chief, voyage with Captain John

Meares 184

Kaiser Wilhelmsland 230

kaizoku

organization of 105

raids on China coast 103

settlements of 103

Kalakaua, David, and Hawai‘i’s global

position 6, 241

friendship with R. L. Stevenson 243

immigrant labor 246–7

leadership in Pacific 242

European antagonism to 242

meeting with Emperor Mutsuhito 241

proposals for Asian alliance 242

signing of Bayonet Constitution 243

see also sugar cane

Kalaniopu‘u, King, and Cook

140, 141

Kamehameha, Chief 132

and Chief Kaiana 184

exploitation of beachcombers 154

and foreign trade 188–9

legacy of 154

and the Santa Rosa 126

and trade 154

kamikaze fighters 291

Kanahele, Bumpy, campaign to build

community town 363–4

and Pu‘uhonua o Waimanalo 364

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Kanak resistance to French in New

Caledonia 213, 214

Kanaka Maoli, campaign for

recognition 363

and Bumpy Kanahele 363–4

opposition to Akaka 363

Kanaka seamen 185

and Polynesian oral tradition 185

Kang il-chul, campaigns for recognition of

sexual slavery 284

Kapiolani, Chiefess, defiance of Pele

156–7

kapu system, and Queen

Ka‘ahumanu 155

Kartini, Raden Adjeng 271

and Dutch Ethical Policy 271

letters of 270, 271–2

Kauona, Sam, rebellion over Panguna

mine 332

Kau‘oulufouna 83

kava drinking practices 83

kava root, legends of 27–8

Keju-Johnson, Darlene, jellyfish

babies 320

kelong 1

Kennedy, John F., rescue by islander

scout 288

Kepuha, Chief, conversion to

Catholicism 118

kidnapping, and tourism 352

Kim Okgyun

assassination of 240

Gap-Sin coup 239–40

mission to Japan 239

Kiokilo, Mostyn 288

Kiribati 375

climate change and future of

islands 375–6

economic life in 377–8

enforcement of Kyoto Protocols 376

marine conservation zone 378

trans-local Pacific history 377, 378

Kitazawa Masakuni, spiritual

emptiness 344

knowledge, pursuit of by Europeans

in Pacific 130

Koori activists 162

Korea

agitation for reform 239

attack by Hideyoshi 96

comfort women 283–4

postwar legal claims against Japan 284

culture of 95

development policies in 344

displacement of artisans 96–7

foreign demands on 239

Japanese takeover of 276, 277

occupation of north and south 299

see also Kim Okgyun; Sino-Japanese

War

Korean Council for Women Drafted for

Military Sexual Slavery 284

Koxinga 109

attack on Dutch colony at Taiwan 109

legacy of 109

and Taiwan 240

Krakatoa 11

Kublai Khan, and Singhasari 35

attempt at Japanese invasion 35

Kudarat, Sultan, and Muslim resistance to

Spanish in Philippines 61–2

Kula, island ring of exchange 16, 260

Kumar, Vijendra, on Indo-Fijian

experience 225

Kwaisulia, “Coastal Chief,” and James

Renton 221–3

partnership with British 223

Kyoto Protocols, disagreements

over 376–7

labor, and oceanic transit of peoples 355

Chinese communities worldwide 355

dependence on emigrant workers

358–9

domestic overseas workers 356

abuse of 356

see also Aquino, Corazon

Lae, and Japanese investigation of skeletal

remains 232

Lahaina, conflicts between whalers and

missionaries 157

Laie, Mormon community in, and

Polynesian Cultural Center

347–8

land speculators, and claims on Maori

land 204

Laperouse, Jean-Francois de Galaup

de 133

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Lapita cultural complex 16–17

in New Caledonia 150

overlap with others 28–9

and pottery 6

see also pigs and DNA evidence;

Polynesians

Laulasi, and mistaken Allied mission 287

Le Dynasty in Vietnam 89

Le Loi, and Vietnam 210

Lee Boo, voyage with Captain Henry

Wilson 183–4

Lee Kuan Yew, and Asian values 343

Legazpi, Miguel Lopez de, and

Philippines 58–60, 115, 121

LeMaire, Jacob, search for Great

Southern Continent 82

encounters in Tonga 82

imprisonment in Batavia 83–4

Lemuria 12

Lenormand, Maurice, and Caledonian

Union 312

Li Dan, and Zheng Zhilong 108

Liaodong Peninsula, Russian interests in

240–1

Libby, Willard, and carbon dating 17

Liholiho, and breaking of kapu system 155

Lili‘uokalani, Queen 249

and President Cleveland 250

reaction to 249

Lim Ah Hong 6, 61, 106–7

siege of Manila 107

Lin Zexu, control of opium trade 193–4

and Opium Wars 194, 195–6

linguistic similitudes 15, 19

Lini, Walter, and Vanuatu 310

literacy, and Christianity in Hawai‘i 155

literature, and new thinking on Pacific

306–7

Logan, Robert, and “purity” of Samoan

race 266

London Missionary Society (LMS) 145–6,

153

men of native agency 144, 150

and Tahiti 146–7

teachers in New Hebrides islands 218

longhouses, in Sarawak 201

los Reyes, Felicidad de, sexual slavery

of 283

Loti, Pierre 209

Luluai, and German bureaucracy 230

lunas, and sugar plantations 247–8

Maasina rule 296

and British colonial government 297

and traditional society 297

Mabo, Eddie Koiki, land case in Murray

Islands 162, 360

legal victory 361

reactions to death of 361–2

terra nullius doctrine 360–1

Macao (Macau), establishment of 90

Macapagal, Diosdado, control of Sabah

340

MacArthur, General Douglas, retreat

from Philippines 279

MacDonald, Ranald

determination to reach Pacific

233, 234

return to America 235

teacher in Nagasaki 234

Maelalo, George, and Pacific war 278,

292

Magellan, Ferdinand de 2, 55, 65

and Enrique de Malacca 56

naming of Pacific 56

and Rajah Humabon 57

and Lapu Lapu 58

Mahmud, Sultan of Johor, and raids on

Dutch shipping 112

Mahmud Shah, and Portuguese trade 51

and Nina Chatu’s letter to

Albuquerque 53

Mairoto, help for French and Franco-

Tahitian war 209

Majapahit dynasty 35–6

makahiki festival, and Cook 140

Malacca (now Melaka) 37, 38

and Chinese treasure fleets 46

development of trade 38–9

and ancient Arab trade

routes 39–40

markets for spices and treasure 41

and Portuguese traders 51

strategic importance of 51

war with Portuguese 51–3

Malacca, Enrique de, and Magellan

56, 58

and language of Philippines 57

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Malay cultures 29

domination of leaders 32

and exchange with India 31

Malaya, surrender of British 279

Malietoa Laupepa, division of Samoa 243

Malietoa Vai‘inupo, Chief 228

Malinowski, Bronislaw, anthropologist as

participant-observer 259

connection with Murray 259

and Trobriand islanders 260

Maluku pirates 104

mana 21

Manila

assault on 107

British seizure of 125

connection to Mexico 122

economy and culture 117

freedom of 126

trade in 117

Manilal Maganlal Doctor, legal assistance

for Indian communities

in Fiji 265–6

see also indenture system

Manjiro, see Nakahama Manjiro

Mansren, legend of 293

and cargo cult 295

Maori people

gods and navigation 21

settlements 84–5

and Ngati Tumata 85

see also New Zealand; Waitangi

Tribunal

Maori Women’s Welfare League 328

Maquinna, Chief, and Nootka crisis 187–8

Marco Polo bridge incident 277

Marcos, Ferdinand, dictatorship of 340

and balikbayan 357

and Benigno Aquino 357

shooting of 357

forced from office 358

and Jabidah commandos 340

pardon for Onoda 342

and Tasaday people 346–7

Maretu, of Rarotonga 152

conversion of 144

preaching of 147–8

Marquesas Islands, and Mendana 68

Marsden, Samuel, and Chief

Ruatara 158

preaching in New Zealand 159

Marshall Islands, German annexation

of 232

see also Bikini Atoll; Goto

Mata’pang, Chief, and killing of San

Vitores 118

Matignon Accords 313

Mau movement, in Samoa 267–8

and Allen 268

Mau Piailug, celestial navigation 22, 23,

306

Maynilad, submission to Spanish

authority 58

Mead, Margaret, study of adolescent girls

in American Samoa 266

Coming of Age in Samoa 266, 268

meanders, convergences of 6

Meares, John 187

and Hawaiian passengers 188

Meiji Restoration 268

ambitions in Korea 238–9

control of Taiwan 240

and Liaodong Peninsula 240–1

modernization policies 238

Satsuma and Choshu armies 238

visit of Kalakaua 241

refusal to join Asian alliance 242

see also Sino-Japanese War

Melanesian inward migration 71

Melanesian islands 3

and “civilizing” influences 217, 218

Melville, Herman, tales of whaling

186

Mendana y Nera, Alvaro de, search for

treasure islands 66–7

death of 70

return voyage to Solomon Islands 67

Meneses, Don Jorge de 128

Menufleur, Angganita, prophecy of

Papua 293

arrest of 293

Meriam people, and Mabo case 360,

361

Mesquita, Captain, beheading of Sultan

Hairun 76

Mexico

independence of 126, 244

Filipino cultures in 120–1

Meyer, Father Otto 17

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Micronesia 3

Middleton, Henry 76

migrations

in 3000 bce 14–15

effect of climatic cycles on 12–13, 14

effects of 6–8

in modern times 13–14

see also Polynesian navigation

Ming Dynasty

bans on travel 104

base for Portuguese in Macao 90

decline in seapower 47–8

protection of Sultan of Malacca 37, 46

trade with Japan 90

cutting of 108

Portuguese monopoly on 91

trade with Ryukyus 98

Mirnha, see San Juan, Catarina de

Missionary Party, seizure of Hawaiian

power 243

Misuari, Nur, and Moro National

Liberation Front 340, 341

Mitterand, Francois, and sinking of

Rainbow Warrior 322

mixed societies of west coast Americas

120–1

moa, hunting of 84

Molina, Gaspar, Filipino shipwright 116

Molisa, Grace Mera, women and

independence in Vanuatu 311

Moll, Chief of Ableman people, and

changing masters 285

work with Japanese troops 285, 286

monsoon winds, exploitation of 39

Monterey, provisioning station in 115

monuments, to occupations 292

Moriyama Einosuke, and MacDonald

235

Treaty of Kanagawa 236

Moro Muslims, in Philippines

and Abu Sayyaf Group 352

autonomy agreement 341

lack of recognition after

independence 339

Jabidah massacre andMoro National

Liberation Front 340–1

Jabidah protests 339

Morro Bay, attacks by Californian

Indians 119

Mount Witori volcano 11

Muhammadiyah organization,

and hajj 273

Murray, Sir Hubert, and Papuan

collection 257–8

field researchers 258

functions of 259

Muslim traders

domination of 49

impact on Malacca 39–40

see also Sindbad the Sailor

Nagasaki

and atom bomb 291, 316

control by Shoguns 100

crucifixion of Christians in 97

Jesuit converts in 95

strategic advantage of 94

Naisseline, Nidoish, and New

Caledonia 312

Nakahama Manjiro, American education

of 234

and Kanagawa negotiations 237

Nakamura Teruo, reappearance in

Indonesia 342

Nan Madol, ruins of 24–5

Nanjing, tributes to 37

Japanese seizure of 277–8

Nantucket whalers 185

naos de China (China ships) 178

Napau, Billy Mase, trade in copra 221

Napoleonic wars, effect on Dutch

trade 199

Nasioi matrilineal clans, in Panguna 329

and Bougainville Cooper Ltd 330

and Rio Tinto 330

National Peasant Union 299

nationalism 268, 274

in China 269–70

in colonial Southeast Asia 270

and Islamic identity 273–4

through literacy and print 272

native agents, and connection to

missions 151–2

see also London Missionary Society;

Williams

Native Americans, effect of gold rush

on 246

Nauru 335

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Nelson, Olaf Frederick, and Mau

movement 267

The Truth About Samoa 268

New Caledonia

mission in Balade 212–13

penal colony in Noumea 213

position of Kanaks under French 311

postwar independence movements

311–13

and Rarotongan mission 6154

Christian mission from Samoa 150

Lapita culture and Kanak

peoples 150

see also Kanak resistance; Lenormand;

Naisseline; Ounei; Tjibaou

New Guinea

Dutch claims on 301

withdrawal from 302

guerilla warfare and Indonesian

control 302

historic identity of 303

Indonesian claims on 300, 301

UN interim settlement 302

New Hebrides (Vanuatu)

British and French interests in 215

Condominium government 310

French support for Nagriamel

secession 311

and Kalakaua 242

position of women 311

and Quiros 151

rejection of independence 310

New Jerusalem, of Quiros 70

New Zealand

anti-nuclear demonstrations 320

French economic threats 322

nuclear-free government under

Lange 320

Maori activists 364, 365

effect of Springboks tour 365–6

Conference on The Cultural and

Intellectual Property Rights of

Indigenous Peoples 367

legislation to settle Maori claims 366

multiracial society 364

Ngati Tumata 84

encounters with VOC 85

and Maoris 85

Ngati Whatua people, sale of lands 329

Nguyen regime in Vietnam 89

and French interests 210–11

Nina Chatu, and Albuquerque 53

Nootka crisis 187

North Pacific, Russian exploration of 139

Northwest Passage, Cook’s search

for 138–9

Nott, Henry, conversion of Pomare II 147

Noumea Accord 313

nuclear disarmament groups

alliance with anti-testing Pacific island

movements 320

common cause with political and

environmental groups 324–5

women’s movements 320

see also Greenpeace; Rainbow Warrior

Nuku, Prince of Tidore, resistance to

VOC 81–2

nutmeg 75

control by VOC 79

Obookiah 153

ocean navigation, effect of galleon trade

on tradition 118

Oceania, exhibition in Auckland

Museum 2

Pacific as sea of islands 5

Oceanic culture, European knowledge

of 128–9

Oda Nobunaga, elimination of

independent religious

authority 94

Office of Hawaiian Affairs 362

Okinawa, civilian slaughter in 290

Omai, Lion of London 138

return voyage with Cook 138–9

Omura Sumitada, arrangements with

Jesuits

gift of Nagasaki 94

Ona, Francis, Panguna Landowners

Association 332

armed insurrection 332

guarding of mine 333

Onoda Hiroo, reappearance in Lubang

Island 341

effect of return to Japan 342, 344

and Suzuki Norio’s search 341

Operation Crossroads, and Bikini

Atoll 316

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opium trade 181

ban in China 193

British fiscal position 193

see also Lin Zexu; Opium Wars

Opium Wars 194

results of 194–5

Orang Laut 111

control of waterways 34

and development policies 325–6

and Japanese tuna fishing industry 326

support for sultans 37, 38

Oro, worship of 132–3

and civil war in Tahiti 147

rival deity, Tane 133

Ortega, Louis, life in foxholes 280

Osifelo, Sir Frederick, trade with

American soldiers 290

Otokichi, see Yamamoto Otokichi

Ottoson, James Matthew, see Yamamoto

Otokichi

Ounei, Susanna, Kanak women’s

rights 312

overseas workers 356

abuse of 356

Pacific Islanders, in nineteenth-century

Canton 184

Pacific Islanders Protection Act 221

Pacific Islands Regiment 287

Pacific Rim, concept of 343

Pacific winds, seasonal shifts in 137

Pacific worlds

diversity of 1–2

historical views of 2–3

multiplicity of locally connected

histories 3–5

sea of islands 3–5

Paddon, James, establishment of

settlement and trading

network 218–19

Pak Kumjoo, story of kidnap 283–4

Pakoko, resistance to French invasion 207

Palembang, Yi Jing’s description of 32

riches of 33–4

Panguna Landowners Association 330

new militant association 332

Pan-Pacific and South East Asian

Women’s Association 324

Papeiha, Tahitianmissionary 144, 145, 147

Papua New Guinea 13

clan structure in 153

development of culture 128

European sightings of 128

and Hagahai genetic material 368

and Islamic power 43

mix of legend with colonial reality

293–4

principle of nuclear-free Pacific 319

resistance to VOC slaving monopoly 82

scarce knowledge of 152–3

Sky People 128

and trade 153

Parameswara, see Iskandar Shah

Parkinson, Richard, Sepik art 231

Pearl Harbor 278–9

penal colony, Bay of Noumea 213

French women in 213

people trade

in Melanesia 219–20

and Vanuatu 215

see also blackbirding; slave trade

People’s Liberation Army 299

Perry, Matthew Cailbraith, mission to

Japan 235

confrontation with Japanese 235–6

President’s letter to Emperor 236


welcome on return to Edo Bay 236

Peru, Viceroyalty of 226

independence and importance of

boundaries 226

profitability of guano 226

see also War of the Pacific

Philip, Governor, and land claims in

Aboriginal territory 169

Philippine–American war 255

US racist propaganda 255

Philippines

ambition for control of Sabah 340

anti-nuclear demonstrations 320

barangay 60

and Spanish culture 60

Catholic church in 252

Chinese trading communities 61

colonization of 115

defence of Manila 97–8

dominance of American and British

trading companies 125

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financial support for 121

independence in 298

Jabidah massacre 340

Japanese invasion of 279

Katipunan, the 253

and Legazpi 58–60

Magellan’s voyage 57

mix of cultures 61

resettlement of “boat people” 339

Spanish domination 62

rebellion against 106

student protest 339

traces of language from Mexico 121

treasure of Lim Ah Hong 106

war and independence 339

see also Aguinaldo; Bonifacio; Kudarat;

Rizal

Phoenix Foundation, and Vanuatu 310

Pigafetta, Antonio, and voyage with

Magellan 56

pigs, and DNA evidence of Lapita

culture 17–18

piracy

advantages of coastline 104–5

challenge by Europeans 113

costs of 112

development of 105, 112

employment of pirates 107

leaders of 105

and new economic system 112

raids on local settlements 111–12

tales of 103–4, 113

pirates’ code, of Cheng I Sao 110

Pitcairn island, and the Bounty 143

Pizarro, Francisco, and silver trade 65, 66

plantations, labor conditions and

opportunity 221–3

Pleistocene sequence 12

Poate Ratu, and Papuan cannibalism 152

Pobassoo, harvesting of trepang 173

Pohnpei, gods and warriors of 24–5

Nahn Sapwe and Isohkelekel 25

see also Bernart

Poivre, Pierre

and Ahutoru 136

and VOC monopoly of spice trade 79

Polk, President James K., and US

expansionism 244

and Californian gold rush 244

Polo, Marco, and Kublai Khan 35

Polynesia 3

encounters with Europeans 132,

133–5

maritime networks, withdrawal to

insular dynasties 50

origins of islanders 19

and Lapita culture 19–21

legends 21

navigation 21–2

preachers, strangers to Melanesia

149–51

Polynesia Company 223

Polynesian Cultural Center, in Laie

347–8, 349

folklore vs reality 349

Pomare dynasty 132, 133, 207

Queen Pomare IV 208, 209

war with France 208–9

Portugal

maritime expansion towards Asia 50

merchants in Canton 177

and Spice Islands 54–5, 74

and Governor Galvao 76

spread of culture in Malacca 54

trade between China and Japan 91

trade in firearms 91

trade with China 90

Treaty of Tordesillas 65

and unification of Japanese states 95

war with Malacca 51–3

weaponry 53

flintlock arquebus 53

floating siege machine 53

mechanical devices 53

see also Albuquerque; Da Gama;

de Sequeira

Pouvana‘a O‘opa, Tahitian nationalism

and anti-nuclear testing 322

prahus, trade with Chinese and Dutch

merchants 171–3

prohibition of 174

Prapanca, eulogy to Majapahit maritime

empire 301–2

Pritchard, George, in Tahiti 208

Pugh, Edward, convict to landowner 167

Quiros, Pedro Fernandez de

Order of the Holy Ghost 71

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Quiros, Pedro Fernandez de (cont.)

in Vanuatu 70

dreams of Catholic conversion in 71

voyage to Marquesas 67

Rabaul, New Guinea, chaos of

war 285–6

Rabuka, Colonel Sitiveni, and Fijian

Tankei movement 308

and independence 308

military coup 309

Raffles, Thomas Stamford, ambitions for

Singapore 197

agreement with Hussein 197

expansion of Singapore 199

land-tenure system in Java 199

reasons for piracy 112

Rahman, Tunku Abdul, and Maria

Hertogh controversy 298

Rainbow Warrior, and Moutaperi Island

315, 323

sinking by French 321

and world condemnation 322

Raitea, role in Polynesian history 132

and worship of Oro 132–3

Ramos, Fidel, and Flor Contemplacion

359

Randall, John, black convict to

Tasmanian official 167

Rapa Nui (Easter Island)

ancient world of 131

birdman festival 226

blackbirding 227

repatriation of survivors 227

contact with Roggeveen’s ships 131–2

and guano harvest 226

isolation of 131

and moai remains 131

ownership of 227

Ratu Kamisese Mara, “Pacific Way” for

political action 307

refugees and asylum seekers

boat people from VietnamWar 337–8

abuse of 338

international burden sharing 336

Pacific solution 336

Reibey, Mary, life of convict to

philanthropist 166–7

religious men, in Malacca 39

Retes, Inigo Ortez de 128

Richards, Reverend William, and mob

violence 157

Richardson, General George,

administration in Samoa 267

and Mau movement 268

and Nelson 267

Rizal, Jose, and Filippino identity 126, 252

arrest and execution of 253

death and Mi Ultimo Adios 252

exile 253

Filipino identity 252

legacy of 255

and Philippine revolution 268

reformist mission 252–3

Roberts, Bridget, women’s anti-nuclear

network 320

Roggeveen, Jacob, landing at Easter

Island 131–2

Rongelap Atoll, effect of hydrogen bomb

tests 317

relocation on Rainbow Warrior 321

Rousseau, Jean-Jacques, and “noble

savage” 134

Roy Mata, legends of 71–2

archeological remains 72

Royal Philippines Company 125, 126

Ruatara, Chief, and Samuel Marsden 158

Bay of Islands mission 158–60, 203

first Christian service in

New Zealand 159

Russel and Company, and Howqua 182

Russian fur traders 187

Ryukyu kingdom (Okinawa)

Japanese takeover of 98–9

trade between Japan and Korea 98

trade with Ming court 98

Ryuzoji Takanobu 94

sago palms, importance to Banda

Islanders 78

sakoku, closing of Japan 99

and foreign commerce 100

Salamasina 28

Salote Tupou III, Queen 304

Samanhoedi, Hadji, and Islamic Trading

Association, see Sarekat Islam

Samoa 228

and Godeffroy company 228

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Kalakaua’s ambitions for 242

trade with Tonga 28

see also Allen; Mau movement; Mead;

German Samoa

Samurai, and looting of Buddhist

monasteries 93

San Francisco, effect of gold rush on

244–5

Chinese community in 246

San Juan, Catarina de 124

Catholic baptism 124

visions of 124–5

San Martin, Jose de, Peruvian

independence from Spain 226

San Vitores, Padre Diego Luis de,

settlement in Guam 118, 145

death of 118

Sanadhya, Totaram, work in Fiji 264–5

sandalwood trade 176

and Erromanga 189

evils of station system 218–19

and Kamehameha 188–9

use of local islanders 218

Sarekat Islam 273–4

Saudeleur civilization, legends of 24–6

Schouten, Willem, search for Great


scurvy, and Cook 136

sea levels, effect on populations 12–13

sea otter, from Nootka Sound, trade

in 187–8

sea peoples 9

see also sea levels

Segalen, Victor 209

Selwyn, Bishop George, Melanesian

mission training school 151

Sengoku period

impact of arquebus 91–3

rebellion against Shogun authority

91

Sentiuli, Lopeti 368

Sepik art 231

Seram, resistance to VOC 82

Serero, Perpetua, Panguna Landowners

Association 332

Serra, Father Junipero 120

Serrao, Francisco, and Banda Islands 54

and Magellan 56

settler colonies, scramble for 214

sexual slavery 283–4, 356

see also comfort stations

Shang kings, and development of Chinese

writing 14

Shimabara Rebellion 100–1

shipbuilding, in Philippines 116

Sho Nei, king of Ryukyus 99

Shoguns, control of Nagasaki 100

Silk Road 30

and Buddhist teachings 31

silver, from Peru and Mexico 178

importance to global economy 116

Simopyaref, Stephen, rebellion against

Japanese 293–4

Sindbad the Sailor, adventures of 41

Singapore 197

Dutch protest at 198

expansion of 199

free port 198

riots over Maria Hertogh controversy

298

see also Raffles

Sino-Japanese War 240

Siovili

relation with LMS and Wesleyans 149

return as prophet to Samoa 148

Sipadan, and Abu Sayyaf Group

guerrillas 352

situado 121

Siwatibu, Suliana 324

slave trade

and Makassar circuit 174

mining of precious metals 116

and Spanish galleons 115, 116, 124

and sugar trade 112

see also San Juan, Catarina de

Soliman, Rajah 58

Solomon, King, undiscovered wealth of 66

Solomon Islands

and American forces 288

and Kalakaua 242

and Mendana 67

Sophia, the, charters between Europe

and Pacific 216

South Pacific Commission

boundaries of Pacific islands 303

South Pacific Forum 303

South Pacific Nuclear Free Zone 319

empty gesture 321

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South Pacific Nuclear Free Zone (cont.)

legacy of 323

Peoples’ Charter for a Nuclear Free

and Independent Pacific 319

signatories to Treaty 322

Southeast Asia distinctions, grand

narratives of 8

Southeast Asian trade, and Philippine

barangay 60

and Spanish claims to Philippines 63

Spanish Empire, and oceanic crossing 64

decline of influence 73

Islamic resistance to 61–2

Manila galleon trade 65, 71

see also Mendana; Pizarro; Quiros

Spanish fur traders, and Alta

California 187

Spanish Lake, the 65

Spanish missions, on Californian coast

119–20

Spanish shipping, plunder of 114, 115

Spanish–American War 250–1

origins of rebellion in Philippines 251

Spate, Oskar, concept of Pacific 2, 3

Speight, George, and Fijian coup 309

Spencer, Stella 263

Spice Islands, see Dutch East India

Company; Dutch traders;

Magellan; Portugal; Ternate

spice routes 31, 32

European interests in 76–7

Muslim interest in148

spices, local uses in daily life 76

Srivijaya empire 33

defeat by Sighasari 35

protection of Orang Laut 34

transfer of knowledge 33

wealth of 33–4

see also Borobudur temple

steamships, need for provisioning

ports 235

Japanese artistic records of 235–6

Stevens, Jimmy Moses Tubo Pantuntun

Moli, and Vanuatu 310

allies of 310

Stevens, John L. and Hawai‘i 249

Stevenson, Robert Louis, protest against

colonialism 243

Stowe, Irving, and Greenpeace 319

sugar cane legends 27–8

sugar plantations

company control of 247

field justice 248

strikes 248–9

international workforces 247

life in 225

multicultural communication 247–8

Suharto, and East Timor 373

resignation of 372

suicide, and sexual slavery 284

Sukarno, and Indonesian independence

300–1

conference to oppose colonialism 303

harassment of Papuans 302

Indonesian Nationalist Association

274

and Japanese invasion of Indonesia 275

plans for Indonesian expansion 301

vision of Majapahit maritime empire

301–2

Sumatra, Ibn Battuta’s tales of 43

Sun Yat Sen, Chinese Revolution 270

Sunda and Sahul 12–13

Sutter, John, and gold rush 244, 246

Suwa Shrine, see Kunchi Festival;

Nagasaki

sweet potato, Maori cultivation of 85

Ta‘unga, chronicles of 149, 150–1

taboo 21

legend of Tu‘i Tonga 27

Taft, William Howard, 257

and US colonial government of

Philippines 255

Tahiti

decline of 136

exchange of resources 134–5

French nuclear testing in 318

legacy of anti-colonial wars 209

and Queen Purea 134

and Samuel Wallis 133–4

see also Franco-Tahitian; Pomare

dynasty war

Taiping Rebellion, and Hong

Xiuquan 195

Taiwan

Chinese authority in 177–8

Dutch establishment in 107

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effect of Japanese trade ban

and piracy 107

postwar development policies in 344

and Qing Empire, takeover by

Japan 240

Takarua War 72

Tamaki raid 204

Tampa, the, and refugees from

Afghanistan and Iraq 335

Tang commercial network 90

Taruc, Luis, and Hukbalahap 279

Tasaday people, discovery of 345

anthropological research 345, 346

creation of reserve 346

discovery of hoax 346–7

reality of 347

Tasman, Abel 29, 165

survey of Australian coastline 84, 85

encounters in Aotearoa 85

Tasman Flow 6

tattoing 19

Te Pahi, and Samuel Marsden 158

Te Rauparaha, and battles with

settlers 206

tea trade

export of 181

financial impact of 191–2

use of opium 192

Temaru, Oscar, Tahitian demonstrations

against nuclear testing 322

Temoana, and French invasion 207

teppo, see arquebus

Ternate, Sultans of, and control of Spice

Islands 74

see also Baab

terra nullius, and Mabo ruling 162

land claims in Torres Straits 168

Thailand

and Asian Crisis 372

effect on other currencies 372

Japanese occupation of 279

Tharmin, Mohammed, and Joyoboyo’s

prophecy 275

Thierry, Baron de 206

Thurston, Asa, mission to Hawaiian

islands 153

tidewater men, in Canton 180

Tidore, rivalry with Ternate over spice

trade 74

Tjibaou, Jean-Marie 3

and Kanak independence 312

assassination of 313

making of international case 312

Melanesia 2000 vision 313

Tokita, Lord, and teppo 91

Tokugawa Ieyasu 98

repression of Christianity 99

and Shimabara Rebellion 100–1

Tokyo, bombing by American forces 291

Tonga, ending of protectorate 304

historical memory of 304

intermarriage and female rulers 28

maritime empire network 27, 28, 83

megaliths 26–7

overlap with Lapita culture 28–9

status of chief 27–8

tales of origins 9

Tongatapu, trilithion 26

Tonghak movement, in Korea 239

Tordesillas, bypass treaty 55

Torres, Luis Vaez de, navigation of

71, 165, 171

tourism

commercial potential 352

development of eco-tourism 351

development vs authenticity 351–2

effect of Pacific War on 348–9

kidnapping 352

Pacific Islands paradise 348

representation issues 350, 351

selling of culture 350–1

tourists’ expectations 351

White Settlement League 348

Touru, Chief, Isle of Pines, and Christian

missions 150

Towns, Robert, and Queensland cotton

219

and people trade 219–20

Toyotomi Hideyoshi

banning of Jesuits 94–5

imperial ambitions of 238, 240

in Korea 95, 96

in Philippines 97–8

crucifixion of Christians 97

trading rings, of Yap empire 24

trading routes, British dominance of 125

tradition

problems of 261–2

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tradition (cont.)

relationship with modernity 343

development policies and Pacific

Rim 343–4

support for environmental

organizations 344–5

see also Apolosi; Asian values;

Polynesian Cultural Centre;

Tasaday people; tourism

Transcontinental Railroad, Chinese labor

on 246

translocality, of Pacific region 5–6

trans-Pacific families, and Hawaiian

plantations 248

Trask, Haunani Kay, tourism issues in

Hawai‘i 350

Trask, Liliani

and Diversa Corporation 367

and Ka Lahui 362

Treasure Fleets, Chinese 45–6, 47, 177

costs of 47–8

decline of 47–8

Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo 244


Treaty of Nanjing 194

Treaty of Waitangi 202

cession of Maori lands 202

Trentinian, General Arthur de, report of

revolt in Noumea 214

trepang trade 171–3, 189–90

British interest in 174

and Ratu Seru Cakobau 190–1

alliance with Britain 191

Tribe of Marion, slaughter of

Maori 206

Trinh regime in Vietnam 89, 210

Triple Alliance, and Liaodong Peninsular

240–1

Trobriand Islanders, and Kula ring 260

Trunajaya 111

Tsukiji fish market 326

tuba 60

tuna fishing industry, in Japan 326

driftnet fishing 326–7

economic partnerships between Asian

governments and islands 327

factory fleets 326

Fijian women workers 327–8

Tunui, John 17

Tupaia 7

and Cook 137–8

Twining, Thomas 191

UN Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban

Treaty 322

United Nations Security Council

and Dutch action in Indonesia 301

interim settlement in Papua 302

United States

expansion towards Pacific 243–4, 249

annexation of Hawai‘i 250

and Kyoto Protocols 376

postwar military occupation 323

protests against 323–4

see also Californian gold rush;

Philippine–American war;

Spanish–American war

Urdaneta, Andres de 63, 65

Urdaneta’s volta 65, 115

Valparaiso, effect of gold rush on 245

Van Diemen, Anthony, and Great


Van Kampen, Elizabeth, accounts of

Japanese occupation 281

end of war 292

life in prison camp 281–2

van Nijenroode, Cornelia 80

Vanuatu, and Quiros 70, 71

New Jerusalem 70

principle of nuclear-free Pacific 319

see also Mata

Vason, George, conversion in reverse 146

and Chief Muilikiha‘amea 146

flight to Tahiti 146

Victoria, Queen, and letter from Lin

Zexu 194

Viet Minh, and victory in Saigon 337

Vietnam

French interests in 210–11

Mongol invasions of 210

partition of north and south

210, 299

protest against French rule 211

settler society in 211

Hai-Loc’s petition 211

mixed marriage in 211

role of European women 211

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Vietnam War

economic effect on other states 336

origins of 336

US withdrawal from 336

see also refugees and asylum seekers

Vilu War Museum 291

vintage texts 29

Viti Kabani, and banana trade 263

and fractures in colonial society 263

Vouza, Jacob, support for allies 288

Waitangi Day ceremonies 38–9

and Archbishop Whakahuihui

Vercoe 366

and Maori activists 365

and Springboks tour 365–6

Waitangi Tribunal 329

and violation of Maori fishing rights

328

and Waitangi Fisheries Commission

328

Waka Nene clan, and Hone Heke 205–6

Wakefield, William, claims on Maori

land 204

Wako, and Chinese alliance with

Europeans 104

see also kaizoku

Wallace, Alfred Russel

and land bridges 12

studies of Indonesian islands 217

Wallis, Samuel 133

landing in Tahiti 133–4

and Purea 134

Wang Zhi, piracy of 105–6

Chinese resistance to 106

War of the Pacific 226

documentation of 280–1

effects on colonial families 281–2

ending of colonial order 279–80

experiences of displaced populations

281

experiences of islanders 286–7

impressionmade by black soldiers 290

memories of 291

support for allied armies 287–8

transformation of everyday life

288–90

romusha 282

see also Pacific Islands Regiment

Wendt, Albert 9, 307

Western Samoa, independence of 303

whalers, life of 184–6

see also Melville, Herman

whaling, and Hawaiian islands 154

conflicts with missionaries 157–8

White Australia policy 170, 174

Wijaya, Raden 35

Wilcox, Robert William Kalanihiapo,

rebellion in Hawai‘i 250

Williams, Francis Edgar, 260

and The Papuan Villager 261

Williams, John, and London Mission

Society (LMS) 145

death in Erromanga 151

native agency approach 147

and Siovili 149

Williams, John Brown, and Cakobau 191

death in Erromanga 217

Williamson Balfour Company, ownership

of Easter Island 227

Wilson, Captain Henry, and King Abba

Thulle 183

winds, and deities 64

World Bank, loans to tourism industry

350–1

World Trade Center, September 11 attacks

353

worlds of water, vision of Pacific 2–3

Wu Di, and Han Empire 30

Wuruk, Hayam 36

Xavier, Francis, miracles of 93

mission to Japan 93

Yajiro, conversion by Francis Xavier 93

Yamamoto, Admiral Isoroku, and Pearl

Harbor 278–9

Yamamoto Otokichi, journey to

America 233

attempted return to Japan 234

change of name 237

Yan Siqi, and Zheng Zhilong 108

Yap, maritime empire of 23–4

spiritual and political trading

alliances 24

Yellow River valley, growth of population

in 14

Yi Jing, pilgrimage to India 32–3

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Yi Sam-Pyong, potter 96

Yi Sun-Shin, Admiral, defence of

Korea 96

Yolngu communities, and Austronesian

migrations 163

and Makassans 173

Yu Dayou, attacks on wako camps 106

Yu Gwan Sun, protests against Japanese

rule 276–7

Zhao Ziyang, Chinese economic

priorities 370

Zheng He 49

and Chinese maritime authority

45–6, 47

early life of 44

and treasure fleets 47–8

and Canton 177

tributes from sultans 44

voyages of 44, 48

Zheng Zhilong, and piracy around

Taiwan 108

Chinese offer of Admiralship 109

and Yan Siqi gang 108–9

see also Koxinga

Zhu Di, Emperor 44–5, 47

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