Pursuing respect in the Cannibal Isles : Americans in nineteenth-century Fiji /
Shoemaker, Nancy, 1958-
Pursuing respect in the Cannibal Isles : Americans in nineteenth-century Fiji / Nancy Shoemaker. - Ithaca : Cornell University Press, (c)2019. - 1 online resource (viii, 333 pages). - The United States in the world .
Includes bibliographies and index.
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.
"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"--
9781501740350 9781501740367
2019004117
Americans--Travel--History--Fiji--19th century.
Visitors, Foreign--Attitudes.--Fiji
Public opinion--United States.
Electronic Books.
DU600 / .P877 2019
Pursuing respect in the Cannibal Isles : Americans in nineteenth-century Fiji / Nancy Shoemaker. - Ithaca : Cornell University Press, (c)2019. - 1 online resource (viii, 333 pages). - The United States in the world .
Includes bibliographies and index.
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.
"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"--
9781501740350 9781501740367
2019004117
Americans--Travel--History--Fiji--19th century.
Visitors, Foreign--Attitudes.--Fiji
Public opinion--United States.
Electronic Books.
DU600 / .P877 2019