Pursuing Respect in the Cannibal Isles : Americans in Nineteenth-Century Fiji /
"The aspirations of individual Americans to be recognized as people worthy of respect was a driving force in the vast global expansion launched by the United States shortly after the nation's founding. This book explore the perspectives of three Americans in Fiji"--
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Ithaca :
Cornell University Press,
2019.
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Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction : why go a Fiji voyage?
- Butenam : knowledge
- The beachcomber : David Whippy
- Mata ki bau : respect vakaviti
- Chief of all the white men : character
- The sea captain's wife : Mary D. Wallis
- By a lady : moral authority
- Marama : social class
- The merchant : John B. Williams
- This hell upon earth : competence and wealth
- Tui America : power
- Epilogue : continuity and change in U.S.-Fiji relations.