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Bad Colonists

Name: Bad Colonists
Brand: Duke University Press
SKU: 9780822322573
Price: 615.8 RON
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The South Seas Letters of Vernon Lee Walker and Louis Becke

Autor: Nicholas Thomas, Richard Eves

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Legare: Copertă tare

Editura: Duke University Press

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In "Bad Colonists", Nicholas Thomas and Richard Eves provide a window into the fantasies and realiti...

Informații despre carte

Autor

Nicholas Thomas, Richard Eves

Limbă

engleză

Legare

Carte - Copertă tare

Publicat

1999

Pagini

192

EAN

9780822322573

ISBN

0822322579

Enbook ID

04937034

Editura

Duke University Press

Greutate

666

Dimensiuni

154 x 230

Descriere completă

In "Bad Colonists", Nicholas Thomas and Richard Eves provide a window into the fantasies and realities of colonial life by presenting separate sets of letters by two late nineteenth-century British colonists of the South Pacific: Vernon Lee Walker and Louis Becke. Thomas and Eves frame the letters - addressed mostly to the colonists' mothers - with commentary that explores colonial degeneration in the South Pacific. Using critical anthropology and theories of history, they examine the process whereby men and women eroded in the midst of the hot, violent, uncivil colonial milieu.Both collections vividly evoke the day-to-day experiences of ordinary late nineteenth-century colonists and open up new questions concerning the making and writing of selves on the colonial periphery. Exposing insecurities in an epoch normally regarded as one of imperial triumph, "Bad Colonists" will appeal to students and scholars of anthropology, colonial history, cultural studies, and Pacific history and culture.