Mistress of everything : Queen Victoria in Indigenous worlds /

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Mistress of everything examines how indigenous people across Britain's settler colonies engaged with Queen Victoria in their lives and predicaments, incorporated her into their political repertoires, and implicated her as they sought redress for the effects of imperial expansion during her long...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Nugent, Maria (Editor ), Carter, Sarah, 1954- (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Manchester : Manchester University Press, [2016]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Victoria, > Queen of Great Britain, > 1819-1901.
Victoria, > Queen of Great Britain, > 1819-1901 > Public opinion.
British colonies.
Public opinion.
Social conditions.
Visits of state.
HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain
HISTORY > Europe > Great Britain.
Visites officielles > Histoire > 19e siecle.
Visits of state > History > 19th century.
Great Britain.
Grande-Bretagne > Colonies > Conditions sociales > 19e siecle.
Grande-Bretagne > Histoire > 1837-1901 (Victoria)
Grande-Bretagne > Colonies > Histoire > 19e siecle.
Great Britain > Colonies > Social conditions > 19th century.
Great Britain > History > Victoria, 1837-1901.
Great Britain > Colonies > History > 19th century.
History.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction : indigenous histories, settler colonies and Queen Victoria
  • 1. "We have seen the son of Heaven/We have seen the son of our Queen" : African encounters with Prince Alfred on his royal tour, 1860
  • 2. "We rejoice to honour the Queen, for she is a good woman, who cares for the Māori race" : loyalty and protest in Maori politics in nineteenth-century New Zealand
  • 3. "The faithful children of the Great Mother are starving" : Queen Victoria in contact zone dialogues in western Canada
  • 4. The politics of memory and the memory of politics : Australian Aboriginal interpretations of Queen Victoria, 1881-2011
  • 5. "My vast Empire & all its many peoples" : Queen Victoria's imperial family
  • 6. Māori encounters with 'Wikitoria' in 1863 and Albert Victor Pomare, her Māori godchild
  • 7. Southern African royalty and delegates visit Queen Victoria, 1882-95
  • 8. Sovereignty performances, sovereignty testings : the Queen's currency and imperial pedagogies on Australia's south-eastern settler frontiers
  • 9. Bracelets, blankets and badges of distinction : Aboriginal subjects and Queen Victoria's gifts in Canada and Australia
  • 10. Chiefly women : Queen Victoria, Meri Mangakahia, and the Māori parliament.

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