<p>New Zealand has had some big ambitions in the Pacific and mixed relations with our neighbours.</p><p><a href="https://players.brightcove.net/6093072280001/default_default/index.html?videoId=6313040893112">Watch the video version of the episode here</a> </p><p>Through much of the 19th century NZ politicians and administrators dreamed of running a vast empire in the Pacific. Parts of that dream came true - although for some, it was more like a nightmare.</p><p>Today, Aotearoa has fewer Pacific possessions that it once had, but the history of our attempts at colonial expansion has effects which continue to reverberate throughout the Pacific.</p><p><strong>In this episode we discuss:</strong></p><ul><li>Where the idea of a NZ run Pacific Empire came from.</li><li>How competition with France contributed to the push for NZ to colonize other pacific islands.</li><li>Why British authorities were often reluctant to go along with the plan.</li><li>How NZ eventually came to control Samoa, Cook Islands, Niue, and Tokelau.</li><li>The 1918 flu outbreak in Samoa and the rise of the Mau movement.</li><li>Samoan resistance to NZ control, including the "Black Saturday" killing of Samoan protesters by NZ police.</li><li>The killing of Cecil Hector Larsen in Niue.</li><li>Decolonisation and independence of some of NZs Pacific territories post WWII.</li></ul><p><strong>For more on this subject:</strong></p><ul><li>Boyd, Mary. 'New Zealand and the other Pacific Islands.' In The Oxford illustrated history of New Zealand,</li><li>Crocombe, Ron. Pacific neighbours: New Zealand's relations with other Pacific islands.</li><li>Henderson, John. 'New Zealand and Oceania.' In New Zealand in world affairs IV, 1990-2005. </li><li>Howe, K. R., Robert C. Kiste, and Brij V. Lal, eds. Tides of history: the Pacific Islands in the twentieth century. </li><li>Ross, Angus. New Zealand aspirations in the Pacific in the nineteenth century. </li><li>Salesa, Damon. 'New Zealand's Pacific.' In The new Oxford history of New Zealand.</li><li><a href="https://teara.govt.nz/en/pacific-islands-and-new-zealand">NZ and the Pacific Islands - Te Ara</a></li></ul><p><a href="https://www.rnz.co.nz/podcast/the-aotearoa-history-show?share=elf_audio_2018860788">Go to this episode on rnz.co.nz for more details</a></p>
