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Cover -- The Spanish Socialist Party and themodernisation of Spain -- Contents -- Series editors foreword -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- 1 The PSOE and social democracy -- 2 The character of Spanish Socialism: a historical overview, 1879-1982 -- 3 The PSOE and the European Community: from isolation to integration -- 4 Economic policy under the PSOE, 1982-96 -- 5 Foreign and security policy under the PSOE government (1982-96): the irresistible force of European imperatives? -- 6 The PSOE and the question of regional autonomy -- 7 The PSOE in opposition, 1996-2004

Cover -- Title -- Contents -- Note on Translations and Abbreviations -- Foreword -- Maps -- 1: From the Earliest Times to the German Coup of 1884 -- i: T he Powers and Samoa to 1877 -- ii: The Establishment of Treaty Rights in Samoa -- iii: The German Bid for the Islands -- iv: The Reaction in London -- 2: 'Furor Consularis' and the Establishment of the Tridominium 1885-89 -- i: Salisbury, Bismarck and the Secret Anglo-German Treaty on Samoa -- ii: The Washington Conference and its Aftermath -- iii: The German-American Confrontation over Samoa -- iv: The Berlin Conference of 1889

When Hugh Laracy reviewed this book in The Journal of Pacific History in 1978 he rightly described it as the 'product of monumental research'. Exploring the diplomatic negotiations that led to the division of the Samoan Islands between Germany, Great Britain and the USA in 1899, it is a significant study of international relations between the three late nineteenth century super powers. The Pacific Islands were pawns in an international diplomatic chess game that involved Britain's early, but often unwilling, acquisition of Pacific territory; Germany's scramble to get its share to bolster its p