xviii, 262 pages, <24> pages of plates : illustrations, facsimile, maps, portraits ; 22 cm
Contents
Tame affair -- 'Where beauty and courtesy, as flowers, blow' -- 'There is sickness in this boat!' -- 'No Chinaman ... shall marry a Samoan' -- Banishment -- Public meeting -- The Mau -- Mutinous state -- Deportations -- Gunboats -- Attempted arrests and departure -- Political prisoner -- Scandal -- Black Saturday -- Aftermath -- Naval operations -- Talks -- Nelson's exile -- Return ... and exile again -- Samoa mo Samoa
Summary
"On 29 August 1914 New Zealand troops landed in German Samoa and established a colonial rule that was to last almost 50 years. The new administrators were an odd assortment of benevolent misfits. Their unchecked power led to widespread racism and the distortion of justice, beauracratic bungling caused the spread of the 1918 influenza epedemic which killed 22% of the population, and on 29 December 1929 there was "Black Saturday when the police opened fire on an unarmed peaceful demonstartion, killing 9 people and wounding a further 50. This book is the story of the couageous and non violent freedom movement known as "Mau". Thoroughly researched and provocative, Mau: Samoa's Struggle for Freedom is an integral chapter in the history of Samoa, NZ and the Pacific." --Publisher's description
Notes
First ed. published 1984 as Mau : Samoa's struggle against New Zealand oppression
