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The Scramble for the Pacific: Dividing Oceania
While historians have spent decades analyzing the Berlin Conference’s impact on Africa and the Opium Wars’ reshaping of China, the European partition of the Pacific islands remains a quieter but equally devastating chapter in colonial history. In this episode, we explore how Germany, Britain, France, and the United States carved up Melanesia, Micronesia, and Polynesia in the late nineteenth century. We focus on the German New Guinea Company, the annexation of the Samoan Islands following the 1889 tripartite convention, and the tragic fate of the Kanak people in New Caledonia under French…
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