- AU PMB DOC 469
- Collection
- 1958
This early edition of Sylvia Masterman’s, An Outline of Samoan History (67pp., Ts., roneo, maps, appendices), was published by the Western Samoan Education Department in 1958. It consists of 17 chapters, as follows:
- The Polynesian People
- Polynesian Voyages
- Samoa before 1830
- European Exploration of the Pacific
- The Coming of Missionaries
- The Growth of Trade. The Germans in Samoa
- The United States and Samoa
- Great Britain, Australia and New Zealand Interests in Samoa
- Strife in Samoa 1835-1880
- The Troubled Years 1880-1889
- An Attempt at International Control 1890-1900
- German Samoa 1900-1914
- New Zealand Occupies Western Samoa 1914
- Western Samoa becomes a mandated territory
- The Years of the ‘Mau’ 1926-1936
- Towards Self Government
- American Samoa
Appendices: 1. Pili the Father of the Samoan Race; 2. The ‘Callipoe’;
- Robert Louis Stevenson; 4. Volcanic Eruption in Savaii – 1905;
- Comparative Word List; 6. Chronology; 7. Word List
A later edition was published in Samoan and English in 1980.
Masterman, Sylvia