Violence and Colonial Dialogue : : The Australian-Pacific Indentured Labor Trade /

Violence and Colonial Dialogue : : The Australian-Pacific Indentured Labor Trade / / Tracey Banivanua Mar.

During the post-abolition period a trade in cheap and often cost-neutral labor flourished in the western Pacific. For more than forty years, it supplied tens of thousands of indentured laborers to the sugar industry of northeastern Australia. Violence and Colonial Dialogue tells the story of its imp...

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Banivanua Mar, Tracey,
Place / Publishing House:Honolulu : : University of Hawaii Press, , [2006]
©2006
Year of Publication:2006
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (296 p.) :; 11 illus., 2 maps
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction: Violence, Language, and Colonial Dialogue
  • 1. The Frontiers: Savages, Going Native, and the Rightness of Might
  • 2. Survival, Arrival, and Growth: TheWorld Islanders Built
  • 3. The Settler Colony: Kanakas, Blacks, and Racial Borderlands
  • 4. South Sea Islanders Resisting Kanakas: Identity, Consciousness, and Community to 1906
  • 5. The State: Inside Colonial Violence, Law, and Order
  • 6. Bulimen, Hardwork, and Muscular Tension
  • Conclusion: Structural Continuity and the Violence of Forgetting
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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