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| Clive Moore | |
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| Name | Clive Moore |
| Birth date | 1944 |
| Birth place | England |
| Nationality | British/Australian |
| Occupation | historian, anthropologist |
| Era | Contemporary |
| Main interests | Pacific Islands, Melanesia, Polynesia, New Guinea |
| Notable works | Pacifc Islands: History of the Pacific Islands, Kanaka: A History of Melanesian Labour |
Clive Moore is a British-born Australian historian and anthropologist known for his extensive research on the Pacific Islands, Melanesia, Polynesia, and New Guinea. He has combined archival scholarship with fieldwork to influence debates in Pacific history, anthropology, and colonialism studies, engaging with institutions such as the Australian National University, University of Papua New Guinea, and University of Queensland. His work addresses labour migration, mission history, colonial administration, and indigenous responses to contact, situating regional history within global processes involving Britain, France, Germany, and the United States.
Born in England in 1944, Moore undertook undergraduate studies before relocating to Australia where he completed postgraduate training. He studied under scholars associated with Australian National University and engaged with archives at the National Archives of Australia, British Library, and National Library of Australia. His doctoral research drew on collections from the United Kingdom and fieldwork in Papua New Guinea, reflecting influences from figures linked to Cambridge University, Oxford University, and the postwar cohort of Pacific historians.
Moore's appointments have spanned universities and research institutes across Oceania. He served on the faculty of the University of Papua New Guinea and held positions at the University of Queensland and the Australian National University College of Asia and the Pacific. He was affiliated with the Pacific Islands Forum research networks and contributed to projects funded by bodies such as the Australian Research Council and the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (Australia). Moore also participated in collaborations with the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa, the Hawaii Pacific University research community, and regional archives in Solomon Islands and Vanuatu.
Moore’s research integrates archival analysis, oral history, and ethnographic methods. He has examined labour recruitment systems including the blackbirding era, contract labour for Queensland plantations, and colonial labour regimes imposed by administrations in German New Guinea and the British Solomon Islands Protectorate. His monographs and articles explore themes connected to missionary networks involving the London Missionary Society, Catholic Church, and Methodist Church; colonial legal frameworks shaped in Whitehall, Berlin Conference legacies, and Canberra policymaking; and indigenous mobility across the Coral Sea and Torres Strait Islands.
Major books address migration and labour such as the history of Melanesian labour on Queensland sugar plantations, the social impact of plantation economies in New Hebrides (now Vanuatu), and the role of Pacific Islanders in wartime mobilizations involving Japan and United States forces during World War II. Moore has published on settler societies in Fiji and interactions between colonial officers from France and Britain in contested archipelagos.
Moore has contributed methodological and substantive advances to studies of the Pacific. Methodologically, he promoted the use of maritime records from shipping firms based in Liverpool and Bristol, missionaries' correspondence archived in London, and oral testimony recorded with communities in Bougainville, New Britain, and Guadalcanal. Substantively, he reoriented narratives about agency by foregrounding indigenous strategies of negotiation with colonial authorities, traders from China and Japan, and missionary agents. His work intersected with scholarship by J.C. Beaglehole, K.R. Howe, Malama Meleisea, Anthoni Hezel, and Herman Bennett in reframing labour migration, missionization, and state formation in the Pacific.
Moore engaged in public history initiatives, advising museums and contributing to exhibitions about Pacific mobilities and wartime histories, linking material culture held in institutions like the British Museum and the Australian War Memorial to community memory projects in Honiara and Port Moresby. He also supervised doctoral students who have gone on to positions at the University of the South Pacific, Victoria University of Wellington, and University of Auckland.
Moore received recognition from academic and regional bodies for his contributions to Pacific studies. He earned fellowships from research councils including the Australian Research Council and visiting fellowships at the Australian National University and the School of Oriental and African Studies. Regional honours included invitations from the Pacific Islands Forum and civic acknowledgments from provincial administrations in Papua New Guinea and Solomon Islands for his collaborative work with communities on historical documentation projects.
- Kanaka: A History of Melanesian Labour — analysis of Melanesian labour migration to Queensland plantations and the Pacific labour trade. - A Short History of the Pacific Islands — a synthesis placing island histories in global contexts involving Britain, France, Germany, and United States. - Articles on the impact of missionary education in New Caledonia, Samoa, and Tonga published in journals associated with ANU Press and the Journal of Pacific History. - Edited volumes on wartime experiences in Solomon Islands and labour recruitment records held in Liverpool and Hobart archives. - Numerous chapters in collections addressing colonial administration in New Guinea, labor policy in Canberra, and indigenous resistance in Vanuatu.
Category:Historians of Oceania Category:Australian historians Category:Anthropologists of Oceania