Taim Bilong Masta: The Australian Involvement With Papua New Guinea
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In the long and complex shadow of colonial history, Taim Bilong Masta — Tok Pisin for Time of the Master — stands as a landmark chronicle of Australia's administrative and cultural entanglement with Papua New Guinea, spanning decades of colonial rule that shaped the destinies of both nations. Hank Nelson reconstructs this intricate relationship with unflinching clarity, presenting the voices of colonisers and colonised alike, drawing on oral histories, archival records, and vivid personal testimonies to paint a portrait of a society defined by stark hierarchies of race, power, and paternalism. Nelson, a distinguished historian of the Pacific at the Australian National University, brings a rigorous yet deeply humane lens to this subject, situating Papua New Guinea's colonial experience within the broader currents of 20th-century imperialism. The work is at once a social history and a moral reckoning, illuminating the everyday realities of plantation life, missionary enterprise, and administrative control — and the profound human costs they extracted. For anyone seeking to understand the roots of modern Papua New Guinea and Australia's enduring, often uncomfortable legacy in the Pacific, this essential volume raises questions that continue to resonate long after the last page is turned.
Author: Hank Nelson
Format: Paperback
Genre: Australian history
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Good
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image
In the long and complex shadow of colonial history, Taim Bilong Masta — Tok Pisin for Time of the Master — stands as a landmark chronicle of Australia's administrative and cultural entanglement with Papua New Guinea, spanning decades of colonial rule that shaped the destinies of both nations. Hank Nelson reconstructs this intricate relationship with unflinching clarity, presenting the voices of colonisers and colonised alike, drawing on oral histories, archival records, and vivid personal testimonies to paint a portrait of a society defined by stark hierarchies of race, power, and paternalism. Nelson, a distinguished historian of the Pacific at the Australian National University, brings a rigorous yet deeply humane lens to this subject, situating Papua New Guinea's colonial experience within the broader currents of 20th-century imperialism. The work is at once a social history and a moral reckoning, illuminating the everyday realities of plantation life, missionary enterprise, and administrative control — and the profound human costs they extracted. For anyone seeking to understand the roots of modern Papua New Guinea and Australia's enduring, often uncomfortable legacy in the Pacific, this essential volume raises questions that continue to resonate long after the last page is turned.