Further information - NZ in Samoa

This web feature was written by Karen Cameron and produced by the NZHistory.net.nz team.  

Links

• Biography of Stephen Allen (DNZB)
• Biography of Arthur Downes (DNZB)
• Biography of William Fell (DNZB)
• Biography of John Luxford (DNZB)
• Biography of Olaf Frederick Nelson (DNZB)
• Biography of George Richardson (DNZB)
• Mau movement (Wikipedia)
• Samoans (Te Ara)

Books

• Boyd, Mary, 'New Zealand and the other Pacific Islands', in Sinclair, Keith (ed.), The Oxford Illustrated History of New Zealand, 2nd edn, Oxford University Press, 1996, pp. 295-322
• Campbell, Ian, 'Civilising Colonialism: The League of Nations experiment', in A History of the Pacific Islands, Canterbury University Press, 2003, pp. 229-43
• Craig, Robert D. (ed.), Historical Dictionary of Polynesia, 2nd edn, The Scarecrow Press Inc., 2002
• Davidson, J.W., Samoa Mo Samoa: The Emergence of the Independent State of Western Samoa, Oxford University Press, Melbourne, 1967
• Field, Michael, Black Saturday: New Zealand's Tragic Blunders in Samoa, Reed Books, 2006
• Meleisea, Malama, The Making of Modern Samoa: Traditional Authority and Colonial Administration in the Modern History of Western Samoa, Institute of Pacific Studies of the University of the South Pacific, 1987
• Meleisea, Malama et al, Lagaga: A Short History of Western Samoa, University of the South Pacific, 1987
• Thompson, Roger C., 'Britain, Germany, Australia and New Zealand in Polynesia', in K.R. Howe, Robert C. Kiste and Brij V. Lal (eds), Tides of History: The Pacific Islands in the Twentieth Century, Allen & Unwin, 1994, pp. 71-92
• Tomkins, Sandra M., 'The influenza epidemic of 1918-19 in Western Samoa', in The Journal of Pacific History, XXVII (2), December 1992, pp. 181-97
• Wendt, Albert, ‘Guardians and wards: a study of the origins, causes, and the first two years of the Mau in Western Samoa', MA thesis (History), Victoria University, Wellington, 1965: Read this text on the NZETC website