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Violence and Colonial Dialogue : the Australian-Pacific Indentured Labor Trade /

During the post-abolition period a trade in cheap and often cost-neutral labor flourished in the western Pacific. For more than forty years, it supplied tens of thousands of indentured laborers to the sugar industry of northeastern Australia. Violence and Colonial Dialogue tells the story of its imp...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Banivanua-Mar, Tracey, 1974-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Honolulu : University of Hawaiʻi Press, ©2007.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction : violence, language, and colonial dialogue
  • The frontiers : savages, going native, and the rightness of might
  • Survival, arrival, and growth : the world islanders built
  • The settler colony : Kanakas, Blacks, and racial borderlands
  • South Sea islanders resisting Kanakas : identity, consciousness, and community to 1906
  • The state : inside colonial violence, law, and order
  • Bulimen, hardwork, and muscular tension
  • Conclusion : structural continuity and the violence of forgetting.