Pursuing Respect in the Cannibal Isles: Americans in Nineteenth-Century Fiji (The United States in the World) - Image 1

Price loading...

Cornell University Press Pursuing Respect in the Cannibal Isles: Americans in Nineteenth-Century Fiji (The United States in the World)

Name: Pursuing Respect in the Cannibal Isles: Americans in Nineteenth-Century Fiji (The United States in the World)
Brand: Cornell University Press

Maritime History & Piracy

Price History & Forecast

No Price Data Available

Price history will appear here once data is collected from Amazon.

Price Distribution

No price data available for histogram

Description

Product Description 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. Review In her fascinating new book, Nancy Shoemaker reveals [how]Americans' activities on Fiji had the cumulative effect of extending the global reach of American capitalism and cultural imperialism.-- "The New England Quarterly" Shoemaker is a master at microhistory. Delving into ship logs, captains' journals, merchant reports, and consul papers, Shoemaker recreates the voyages and passengers embarking to Fiji in the mid-nineteenth century.-- "Diplomatic History" Full of colorful and detailed stories, this study reveals the personal motivations that propelled 19th-century American expansions in the Pacific world. It is an excellent supplement to existing scholarship.-- "Choice" About the Author Professor Nancy Shoemaker of the University of Connecticut is a historian of Native American history. Her books include A Strange Likeness, Native American Whalemen and the World, and an edited collection of historical documents and oral histories called Living with Whales. While investigating whaling history, she broadened her interests to include the history of the US in the world, especially in the Pacific.

Product Specifications

Brand: Cornell University Press
Format: hardcover
ASIN: 1501740342
Category: Books > Subjects > History > World History > Maritime History & Piracy
Domain: Amazon UK
Release Date: 15 November 2019
Listed Since: 11 December 2018

Barcode

No barcode data available

Cornell University Press Pursuing Respect in the Cannibal Isles: Americans in Nineteenth-Century Fiji (The United States in the World)

Price History & Forecast

No Price Data Available

Price Distribution

Description

Product Specifications

Barcode

Similar Products You Might Like

Cannibal Fictions: American Explorations of Colonialism, Race, Gender and Sexuality (Ray & Pat Browne Book)

Yankees in the Indian Ocean: American Commerce and Whaling, 1786–1860 (Indian Ocean Studies Series)

The Pacific Insular Case of American Sāmoa: Land Rights and Law in Unincorporated US Territories

American Empire in the Pacific: From Trade to Strategic Balance, 1700-1922 (The Pacific World: Lands, Peoples and History of the Pacific, 1500-1900)

The Enduring Vision: A History of the American People, Volume II: Since 1865, Concise: 2

The American Century: Consensus and Coercion in the Projection of American Power

Early North America in Global Perspective (Rewriting Histories)

Ethnographies of U.S. Empire - Duke University Press Books

Food and Eating in America: A Documentary Reader (Uncovering the Past: Documentary Readers in American History)

Consuming the Caribbean: From Arawaks to Zombies (International Library of Sociology)

Cengage The American Pageant, Vol 1: History to 1877

The Early Imperial Republic: From the American Revolution to the U.S.–Mexican War (Early American Studies)

Voyages in World History, International Edition

The Enduring Vision: A History of the American People, Volume I: To 1877, Concise

Pacific Connections: The Making of the U.S.-Canadian Borderlands: 34 (American Crossroads)

Cengage Advantage Books: Liberty, Equality, Power: A History of the American People

Asian/Pacific Islander American Women: A Historical Anthology

Routledge Anglo-American Imperialism and the Pacific Book

Routledge - Unspeakable Awfulness: America Through European Eyes

A Concise American History

The American People: Creating a Nation and a Society, Volume 1 (to 1877), VangoBooks

Crossing Empires: Taking U.S. History into Transimperial Terrain (American Encounters/Global Interactions)

Journeys of the Slave Narrative in the Early Americas (New World Studies)

Domination and Resistance: The United States and the Marshall Islands during the Cold War