Imperial benevolence : making British authority in the Pacific Islands /
This analysis of British imperialism in the south Pacific explores the impulses behind British calls for the protection and "improvement" of islanders. From kingmaking projects in Hawai'l, ̃ Tonga, and Fiji to the "antislavery" campaign against the labor trade in the western...
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| Định dạng: | Licensed eBooks |
| Ngôn ngữ: | Tiếng Anh |
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Honolulu :
University of Hawai'i Press
©1998.
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| Truy cập trực tuyến: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctt6wqzwn |
Mục lục:
- Introduction
- Measures of benevolence
- White savages
- Protective supremacy?
- Kingmaking
- The sandalwood crusade
- A house divided
- Antislavery imperatives
- Gunboat diplomacy?
- The triumph of tradition
- Epilogue.