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Item Anglo-Tongan Relations 1899-1905(1976-01-01) Priestley, RobynThis work deals with the period of maximum imperialist intervention in the South Pacific Kingdom of Tonga. It argues that the Treaty of Friendship and Protection which made Tonga a British Protectorate in May 1900, was not signed because of any concern over the welfare of the Tongans. Motivated by interest in the strategic value of the Tongan harbours Britain reached an agreement with Germany that Tonga, rather than Samoa, was a British sphere of influence. Once this agreement had been made the imperialist attitudes at the turn of the century made formal definition of British authority in Tonga inevitable. Tonga was to be a Protectorate because it was the form of control which would incur the least expense and was least likely to antagonize other powers.
Publication History in the Details: A Historian Reflects on the Value of Letters(Avondale Academic Press, 2017-11-01) Priestley, RobynThe humble letter proved a communication lifeline for Avondale alumna and missionary Margaret Watts between 1956 and 1966. She wrote letters almost every week to family and friends. For four years, the letters came from Redcliffe Mission Station on the island of Aobe in the New Hebrides, and for the last six years they came from Inus Mission Station on the island of Bougainville in the Territory of New Guinea. Dearest Folks: Letters Home From a Missionary Wife and Mother publishes almost 100 of these surviving letters, mostly from mid-1964 onwards.
Item Marriage and Family Life in the Seventeenth Century: A Study of Gentry Families in England(1988-03-01) Priestley, RobynThis thesis looks at aspects of the family life of three gentry families and their kin throughout the seventeenth century. The families were chosen because a sufficient number of personal family documents survive to make it possible to discover a great deal beyond the bare facts of family structure. They are representative in the sense that they are a random sample taken from approximately the same class, the gentry, in three different counties. The selection was guided by a desire to find the norm rather than the exception.