Pursuing respect in the Cannibal Isles : Americans in nineteenth-century Fiji / Nancy Shoemaker.

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Shoemaker, Nancy, 1958- [Author]

Material type: Text

text

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computer

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online resource

ISBN:

9781501740350
9781501740367

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DU600 .P877 2019

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Contents:

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.

Subject: "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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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"--

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