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Violence and colonial dialogue : the Australian-Pacific indentured labor trade
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Violence and colonial dialogue : the Australian-Pacific indentured labor trade / Tracey Banivanua-Mar.
ISBN
0824830253 (hardcover : alk. paper)
9780824830250 (hardcover : alk. paper)
Published
Honolulu : University of Hawaiʻi Press, c2007.
Physical Description
x, 270 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.
Notes
Based on the author's thesis (Ph.D.).
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
March 20, 2007
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 231-259) and index.
Contents
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.
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