Nicholas Thomas, Richard Eves

Bad Colonists

The South Seas Letters of Vernon Lee Walker and Louis Becke

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Produktbeschreibung

"The presentation of these two sets of letters is first-rate. Nothing less would be expected of a project in which Nicholas Thomas--a leading figure in the fields of anthropology and history--is involved."--George E. Marcus, Rice University

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 192
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. Januar 1999
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 153mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 327g
• ISBN-13: 9780822322221
• ISBN-10: 0822322226
• Artikelnr.: 22377686

Autorenporträt

Nicholas Thomas and Richard Eves

Inhaltsangabe

List of Illustrations xix
Preface xxi
Acknowledgments xxiii
Introduction: Letter Writing and Colonial Selfhood 1
1. " An Awfully bad Hand at Letter Writing": Vernon Lee Walker and Colonial
History 9
2. The Letters of Vernon Lee Walker, 1878-1887 19
3. Self-Fashioning and Savagery: Louis Becke's Pacific Letters 77
4. The Letters of Louis Becke, 188-1882 91
5. The Apotheosis of Savagery: Louis Becke's Pacific Tales 129
Epilogue: Figures in History 146
Notes 149
Bibliography 155
Index 161