ATLAS / WORLD HISTORY IN PICTURES

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Flag-raising at Mulinuʻu, Apia, 1 March 1900. Thomas Andrew’s photograph shows a German colonial ceremony, not the 1929 Mau parade; it cannot establish the participants’ consent.
Picture source & rightsThomas Andrew / Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa · C.001438 · No Known Copyright Restrictions (New Zealand law) · Unchanged JPEG · Licence terms

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Samoa: colonial rule, the Mau and independence

A colonial photograph, Samoan testimony and constitutional records connect partition, resistance and the independence of Western Samoa. This focused chapter distinguishes changing administrations, women’s organizing and the limits of political inclusion.

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