Author: New South Wales. Parliament. Legislative CouncilPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : New South Wales
Languages : en
Pages : 992
Book Description
Votes & Proceedings
Author: New South Wales. Parliament. Legislative CouncilPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : New South Wales
Languages : en
Pages : 1026
Book Description
Sessional Papers
Author: Great Britain. Parliament. House of LordsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 394
Book Description
Records of the Proceedings and Printed Papers of the Parliament
Author: Australia. ParliamentPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1320
Book Description
The Edinburgh Review, Or Critical Journal: ... To Be Continued Quarterly
Author: The Edinburgh Review
Author: Sessional Papers, Printed by Order of the House of Lords, Or Presented by Royal Command, in the Session ..
Author: Great Britain. Parliament. House of LordsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 396
Book Description
Tables and Indexes
Author: Great Britain. Parliament. House of LordsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 368
Book Description
The Colonial Office List for
Author: Great Britain. Colonial OfficePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 550
Book Description
Appendix to the Journals of the House of Representatives of New Zealand
Author: New Zealand. Parliament. House of RepresentativesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : New Zealand
Languages : en
Pages : 1516
Book Description
The White Pacific
Author: Gerald HornePublisher: University of Hawaii Press
ISBN: 0824865170
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 265
Book Description
Worldwide supplies of sugar and cotton were impacted dramatically as the U.S. Civil War dragged on. New areas of production entered these lucrative markets, particularly in the South Pacific, and plantation agriculture grew substantially in disparate areas such as Australia, Fiji, and Hawaii. The increase in production required an increase in labor; in the rush to fill the vacuum, freebooters and other unsavory characters began a slave trade in Melanesians and Polynesians that continued into the twentieth century. The White Pacific ranges over the broad expanse of Oceania to reconstruct the history of "blackbirding" (slave trading) in the region. It examines the role of U.S. citizens (many of them ex-slaveholders and ex-confederates) in the trade and its roots in Civil War dislocations. What unfolds is a dramatic tale of unfree labor, conflicts between formal and informal empire, white supremacy, threats to sovereignty in Hawaii, the origins of a White Australian policy, and the rise of Japan as a Pacific power and putative protector. It also pieces together a wonderfully suggestive history of the African American presence in the Pacific. Based on deft archival research in Australia, New Zealand, Fiji, Hawaii, the United States, and Great Britain, The White Pacific uncovers a heretofore hidden story of race, labor, war, and intrigue that contributes significantly to the emerging intersectional histories of race and ethnicity.