The Pacific Islands between the Global Wars

While the major powers pushed to increase their influence in the Pacific, Americans began to think of Tahiti as a playground of ecentrics and the artistic heirs to Gauguin. 

Archives:

James Norman Hall Papers, 1906-1954 at Grinnell College

Charles Bernard Nordhoff Papers, 1880-1950 at Huntington Library

Media of the Day:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=edBNF8Op_Pk