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Shoemaker, Nancy, 1958- author.
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Americans -- Travel -- Fiji -- History -- 19th century.
Visitors, Foreign -- Fiji -- Attitudes.
Public opinion -- United States.
Fiji -- Foreign public opinion -- History -- 19th century.
Fiji -- Social life and customs -- 19th century.
United States -- Social life and customs -- 19th century.
Fiji -- Description and travel.
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Pursuing respect in ...
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Pursuing respect in the Cannibal Isles : Americans in nineteenth-century Fiji / Nancy Shoemaker.
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Shoemaker, Nancy, 1958- author.
Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2019.
Subjects
Americans -- Travel -- Fiji -- History -- 19th century.
Visitors, Foreign -- Fiji -- Attitudes.
Public opinion -- United States.
Fiji -- Foreign public opinion -- History -- 19th century.
Fiji -- Social life and customs -- 19th century.
United States -- Social life and customs -- 19th century.
Fiji -- Description and travel.
ISBN:
9781501740343 hardcover ; alkaline paper
1501740342 hardcover ; alkaline paper
Series:
United States in the world.
Description:
viii, 333 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
Contents:
Introduction : why go a Fiji voyage? -- Nutenam : 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.
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"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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Hawaii State Library
Hawaiian & Pacific
H 996.11 Sh
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H 996.11 Sh
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996.11 Shoemaker
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