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Structure

Structure. Define: Colonisation Introduce primary source Show Tonga’s relation with primary source Show why Tonga is believed to have escaped direct colonialism Show how Thailand escaped colonialism Conclude. Tonga in the Pacific. The Kingdom of Tonga. Protectorate:

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Structure

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  1. Structure • Define: Colonisation • Introduce primary source • Show Tonga’s relation with primary source • Show why Tonga is believed to have escaped direct colonialism • Show how Thailand escaped colonialism • Conclude

  2. Tonga in the Pacific http://www.worldatlas.com/webimage/countrys/oceania/to.htm

  3. The Kingdom of Tonga http://www.worldatlas.com/webimage/countrys/oceania/to.htm

  4. Protectorate: the relation of a strong state toward a weaker state or territory that it protects and partly controls. Colony: as any people or territory separated from but subject to a ruling power.

  5. Article II The government of the united kingdom shall have full and sole responsibility for, and for the conduct of, the external relations of the kingdom of Tonga, with the united nations, with all international organisations of which neither the united kingdom nor the kingdom of Tonga is for the time being a member, with respect to defence, with respect to establishment matters, merchant shipping and civil aviation (Pacific Archive Texts, 2006).

  6. Religious Colonisation • 1820: British Missionaries came to Tonga • Rapid spread of Christianity throughout Tongan Islands • 1773: Captain cook arrives in Tonga and creates the name “The Friendly Islands”

  7. Bowring Treaty (1855) • Established a trade relationship between Great Britain and Thailand • Opened Thailand up to foreign trade

  8. Sanctions on Foreigners and their goods… • Foreigners couldn’t purchase land because the government refused natives permission to sell land to them • Foreigners weren’t given permission to travel freely through Thailand and were liable to be arrested for no reason • Foreigners could rent land but it was usually at an exorbitant cost • Trade was monopolised by the king; whose representatives would purchase imported goods for a non-negotiable, set price • Anyone who purchased goods outside of this set-up were charged with treason

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