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

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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.

Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Schulz, Joy (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, [2023]
Series:Studies in Pacific worlds.
Subjects:
Queens > French Polynesia > Tahiti (Island) > Biography.
Queens > Hawaii > Biography.
Reines > Polynésie française > Tahiti > Biographies.
Reines > Hawaii > Biographies.
HISTORY / United States / State & Local / West (AK, CA, CO, HI, ID, MT, NV, UT, WY)
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Women's Studies.
Kings and rulers
Politics and government
Queens
Tahiti (French Polynesia : Island) > Kings and rulers > Biography.
Hawaii > Kings and rulers > Biography.
Tahiti (French Polynesia : Island) > Politics and government.
Hawaii > Politics and government > To 1893.
Hawaii > Politique et gouvernement > Jusqu'à 1893.
French Polynesia > Tahiti (Island)
Hawaii
Biographies
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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