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Pursuing Respect in the Cannibal Isles : Americans in Nineteenth-Century Fiji / Nancy Shoemaker.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: The United States in the WorldPublisher: Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press, [2019]Copyright date: ©2019Description: 1 online resource (352 p.) : 29 b&w halftones, 3 mapsContent type:
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ISBN:
  • 9781501740350
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 996.11 23
LOC classification:
  • DU600 .S477 2020
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Why Go a Fiji Voyage? -- 1. Butenam: Knowledge -- Part I: The Beachcomber: David Whippy -- 2. Mata ki Bau : Respect Vakaviti -- 3. Chief of All the White Men: Character -- Part II: The Sea Captain’s Wife: Mary D. Wallis -- 4. By a Lady: Moral Authority -- 5. Marama : Social Class -- Part III: The Merchant: John B. Williams -- 6. This Hell upon Earth: Competence and Wealth -- 7. Tui America: Power -- Epilogue: Continuity and Change in U.S.-Fiji Relations -- Appendix A: Sandalwood Voyages -- Appendix B: Bêche-de-Mer Voyages -- Appendix C: Foreign Naval Vessels in Fiji to 1860 -- Abbreviations -- Glossary -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
Summary: 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.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Why Go a Fiji Voyage? -- 1. Butenam: Knowledge -- Part I: The Beachcomber: David Whippy -- 2. Mata ki Bau : Respect Vakaviti -- 3. Chief of All the White Men: Character -- Part II: The Sea Captain’s Wife: Mary D. Wallis -- 4. By a Lady: Moral Authority -- 5. Marama : Social Class -- Part III: The Merchant: John B. Williams -- 6. This Hell upon Earth: Competence and Wealth -- 7. Tui America: Power -- Epilogue: Continuity and Change in U.S.-Fiji Relations -- Appendix A: Sandalwood Voyages -- Appendix B: Bêche-de-Mer Voyages -- Appendix C: Foreign Naval Vessels in Fiji to 1860 -- Abbreviations -- Glossary -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index

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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.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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