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Outpost of Empire
出版CopyRight Publishing, 2023
ISBN19214525959781921452598
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=_cDQ0AEACAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
註釋Companion to Savage Frontier - Pacifying a Payback Culture by the same AuthorThe story of the East End of Papua and its principal administrative outpost, Samarai, begins when European navigators first visited its waters, and tells of the adventurers who followed.Scores of vulnerable whites were massacred, eaten, and their heads taken, and in retaliatory clashes, rifles accounted for the deaths of an uncounted number of tribesmen. Establishing the Pax Britannica was a sometimes grisly business.The book tells of the military campaigns following the Japanese invasion of 1942, the aftermath of the war and the country's sometime stuttering path to Independence in 1975. Restoration of the gutted and burnt out Samarai was never pursued seriously, and the progressive development of airline networks throughout the now combined Territories of Papa and New Guinea relegated shipping to a subsidiary role in the movement of people. Consequently, Samarai was stripped of its geographic importance and thereby its principal raison d'être.By the late 1960s there were numerous dissident groups throughoutTP&NG challenging the Australian Administration's approach to government. Many were from distant parts of the Territory, but their actions, and the Australian Administration's responses to them, impacted on all the indigenous people of the Territory, and the trajectory toward Independence. The actions of the more influential of these groups are detailed, as is the country's rocky path to Independence.