From Sudan to Samoa: imperial legacies and cultures in New Zealand's rule over the Mandated Territory of Western Samoa

Patricia O'Brien

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    Abstract

    In governing all its Pacific dependencies, New Zealand was an empire within an empire, but with Samoa there was the additional layer of imperial oversight in the form of the League of Nations' Permanent Mandates Commission (PMC). This chapter tracks the role Charles Fergusson played in exerting British influence from its imperial centre to its colonial peripheries: to New Zealand and then to Samoa. It also shows how he and the New Zealand government managed British rule of Samoa with the PMC, and the Governor-General's consistent advocacy for the maintenance of imperial prestige in Samoa through the use of violence.
    Original languageEnglish
    Title of host publicationNew Zealand's Empire
    EditorsKatie Pickles and Catharine Coleborne
    Place of PublicationManchester
    PublisherManchester University Press
    Pages127-146pp.
    Volume1
    Edition1st
    ISBN (Print)9780719091537
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished - 2016

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