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The Scramble for the Pacific: Islands Divided
While the Berlin Conference carved up Africa and the Opium Wars forced open China, European powers were quietly partitioning the Pacific Ocean in the late nineteenth century. This episode explores how Germany, Britain, France, and the United States divided Melanesia, Polynesia, and Micronesia without consulting the indigenous populations who had lived there for millennia. We look at the German New Guinea Company’s brutal administration of Kaiser-Wilhelmsland, the annexation of Hawaii by the United States through the overthrow of Queen Liliʻuokalani, and the complex tripartite division of…
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