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When women ruled the Pacific : power and politics in nineteenth-century Tahiti and Hawai'i /

Joy Schulz explores Polynesia's nineteenth-century women rulers, who held enormous domestic and foreign power and expertly governed their people amid shifting loyalties, outright betrayals, and the ascendancy of imperial racism.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Schulz, Joy (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, [2023]
Colección:Studies in Pacific worlds.
Temas:
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • List of illustrations
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction: Woman in red
  • 1. Purea
  • 2. 'Aimata
  • 3. Ka'ahumanu
  • 4. Lili'uokalani
  • Conclusion: To all the queens
  • Appendix A. Partial letter from Pōmare to Queen Victoria (1844)
  • Appendix B. Queen Lili'uokalani's formal protest to the United States against the Annexation Treaty (1897)
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index.