Abstract:In the mid‐ and late 1800s, France acquired several colonies in the South Pacific: Tahiti and the other islands of French Polynesia, New Caledonia, and Wallis and Futuna, as well as an interest in the Anglo‐French condominium of the New Hebrides. The French transported convicts to New Caledonia from the 1860s to the 1890s, but its major resource was and remains nickel. The myths of paradise found and lost endured in Tahiti, which gained new importance for France from the 1960s to the 1990s as a site for nuclea… Show more
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