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

Author/creator Banivanua-Mar, Tracey, 1974-
Format Book and Print
Publication InfoHonolulu : University of Hawaiʻi Press, ©2007.
Descriptionx, 270 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
Supplemental Content Table of contents only
Subject(s)
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.
General noteBased on the author's thesis (Ph.D.).
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. 231-259) and index.
LCCN 2006022270
ISBN0824830253 (hardcover : alk. paper)
ISBN9780824830250

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