Violence and colonial dialogue [electronic resource] : the Australian-Pacific indentured labor trade / Tracey Banivanua-Mar.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: BookBookPublication details: Honolulu : University of Hawai�i Press, c2007.Description: x, 270 p. : ill., mapsSubject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 331.11/73 22
LOC classification:
  • HD4875.A85 B35 2007eb
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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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Based on the author's thesis (Ph.D.).

Includes bibliographical references (p. 231-259) and index.

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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