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Pursuing Respect in the Cannibal Isles
Author | : Nancy Shoemaker |
Publisher | : Cornell University Press |
Total Pages | : 348 |
Release | : 2019-11-15 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1501740350 |
Full of colorful details and engrossing stories, Pursuing Respect in the Cannibal Isles shows that the aspirations of individual Americans to be recognized as people worthy of others' respect was a driving force in the global extension of United States influence shortly after the nation's founding. Nancy Shoemaker contends that what she calls extraterritorial Americans constituted the vanguard of a vast, early US global expansion. Using as her site of historical investigation nineteenth-century Fiji, the "cannibal isles" of American popular culture, she uncovers stories of Americans looking for opportunities to rise in social status and enhance their sense of self. Prior to British colonization in 1874, extraterritorial Americans had, she argues, as much impact on Fiji as did the British. While the American economy invested in the extraction of sandalwood and sea slugs as resources to sell in China, individuals who went to Fiji had more complicated, personal objectives. Pursuing Respect in the Cannibal Isles considers these motivations through the lives of the three Americans who left the deepest imprint on Fiji: a runaway whaleman who settled in the islands, a sea captain's wife, and a merchant. Shoemaker's book shows how ordinary Americans living or working overseas found unusual venues where they could show themselves worthy of others' respect—others' approval, admiration, or deference.
The Fiji and New Caledonia Journals of Mary Wallis, 1851-1853
Author | : Mary Davis Wallis |
Publisher | : [email protected] |
Total Pages | : 276 |
Release | : 1994 |
Genre | : Fiji |
ISBN | : 9789820200951 |
Mixed Messages: Materiality, Textuality, Missions
Author | : J. Scott |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 273 |
Release | : 2005-05-05 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 1403982325 |
This collection of essays looks at missions, their complicity in European colonialism, and their postcolonial aftermath. It examines the spread of Christianity, ranging over the anthropological, textual, historical, and geographical dimensions of mission enterprises, with topics as diverse as the influence of mission printing and record-keeping on traditional life in Africa to the role of missions in changing styles of dress in India. Also, uniquely, the collection includes essays analyzing the role of proselytizing in Islam, Hinduism, and Buddhism, as well as American liberal democratic capitalism. The volume is interdisciplinary, focusing on textual and material aspects of missions. Like Griffiths' earlier ground-breaking books in postcolonial studies, and Scott's well-known interdisciplinary work on missions and postcolonial literatures, this collection will be fascinating to scholars in postcolonial/cultural and mission studies and be useful as a teaching tool as well. Mixed Messages was listed among the 15 best books for 2005 in the Jan 2006 issue of The International Bulletin of Mission Studies .
Church and State in Tonga
Author | : Sione Latukefu |
Publisher | : University of Queensland Press |
Total Pages | : 405 |
Release | : 2014-06-01 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 1921902353 |
First published in 1974, Church and State in Tonga is a classic study of the formative period of modern Tongan history. The years covered are from the re-establishment of the Wesleyan Methodist mission in the 1820s until the promulgation of the Tongan constitution in 1875. The missionaries assumed the role of political advisors, but by the 1850s the missionary monopoly was undermined and what author Sione Latukefu calls a "marriage of convenience" and an "alliance" began. The king became selective in the advice he accepted and took his own initiatives. Much of the book deals with the development of kingship and the emergence of written codes of law and the constitution. The book is dedicated to Queen Salote Tupou III who passed the traditions of the royal family to Latukefu, determined to impart her wealth of knowledge of the Tongan traditional past. Church and State in Tonga was the first substantial study by a Tongan of the history of the Tongan monarchy and government, a rich documentary study reinforced by knowledge of local language, customs, and traditions.
A Second Missionary Visit to the Friendly and Feejee Islands, in the Year 1850 (Classic Reprint)
Author | : Walter Lawry |
Publisher | : Forgotten Books |
Total Pages | : 232 |
Release | : 2017-10-24 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9781527642447 |
Excerpt from A Second Missionary Visit to the Friendly and Feejee Islands, in the Year 1850 R lost condition, and have sought and found 'cy of God through Christ. Being new creatures Christ Jesus, they are following after o what rer things are true, whatsoever things are honest, ttsoever things are just, whatsoever things are e, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever 1gs are of good report; if there be any virtue, if there be any praise. The Missionaries are ng them in this pursuit; and it is hoped that facts contained in the following pages will induce mtinued and increased support to those Funds by ch the Missionaries are enabled to follow up the 'k they have so happily commenced. If any ependent confirmation of the statements con ned in these volumes be considered desirable, the tor has great pleasure in referring to a beautiful ime recently published by a lady in America. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.