An in-depth resource textbook for NCEA history. This new history textbook presents to New Zealand students significant events and issues in Pacific history. Each context includes contested events that have impacted on the people in the Pacific and shaped their place in the modern world. These issues stimulate inquiry and enable students to achieve excellence. Pacific History contains engaging primary sources, a wide range of activities to engage all learners and historiography.
Overview of Pacific History:
Key Context and Concepts
•Tonga: Conversion and Unification
•Hawai’I: Revolution and Annexation by the United States of America
•Niue: New Zealand’s Annexation
•Samoa: The Civil Wars and the Mau Movement
•Vanuatu: The Santo Rebellion
•New Caledonia: The Civil Wars
•Fiji: From Cession to Coup d’etat
•Pasifika in New Zealand: Migration, Dawn Raids and the Polynesian Panther Movement