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Meet the author of a recent University of Press Publication
Tautai: Sāmoa, World History, and the Life of Ta’isi O.F. Nelson
By Patricia O’Brien
Tautai, or navigator, is a biography of Ta’isi O. F. Nelson. Ta’isi was Sāmoa’s leading businessman who was blamed for instigating Sāmoa’s long-running non-violent campaign for justice (the Mau) that challenged New Zealand, Britain and the newly minted powers of the League of Nations between the wars. For his trouble Ta’isi was exiled twice and subjected to a concerted campaign intent on his social and financial ruin. Using many new sources, this book tells Ta’isi’s untold story, providing fresh, rich and intriguing new aspects to the story of indigenous resistance and the global crisis of empire after World War One.
For more information see: http://www.uhpress.hawaii.edu/p-9743-9780824866532.aspx
Co-sponsored by: UH Mānoa Center for Pacific Islands Studies, UH West O‘ahu Hawaiian-Pacific Studies, and East-West Center Pacific Islands Development Program
Meet the author of a recent University of Press Publication
Tautai: Sāmoa, World History, and the Life of Ta’isi O.F. Nelson
By Patricia O’Brien
Tautai, or navigator, is a biography of Ta’isi O. F. Nelson. Ta’isi was Sāmoa’s leading businessman who was blamed for instigating Sāmoa’s long-running non-violent campaign for justice (the Mau) that challenged New Zealand, Britain and the newly minted powers of the League of Nations between the wars. For his trouble Ta’isi was exiled twice and subjected to a concerted campaign intent on his social and financial ruin. Using many new sources, this book tells Ta’isi’s untold story, providing fresh, rich and intriguing new aspects to the story of indigenous resistance and the global crisis of empire after World War One.
For more information see: http://www.uhpress.hawaii.edu/p-9743-9780824866532.aspx
Co-sponsored by: UH Mānoa Center for Pacific Islands Studies, UH West O‘ahu Hawaiian-Pacific Studies, and East-West Center Pacific Islands Development Program
