Violence and colonial dialogue : the Australian-Pacific indentured labor trade /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Banivanua-Mar, Tracey, 1974-
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Honolulu : University of Hawaiʻi Press, [2007]
Subjects:	Pacific Islanders > Australia > Queensland > History. Sugar trade > Australia > Queensland > History. Sugar workers > Australia > Queensland > History. Indentured servants > Australia > Queensland > History. Australia > Race relations. Electronic books.
Online Access:	Connect to the full text of this electronic book

Table of Contents:

Introduction : violence, language, and colonial dialogue
The frontiers : savages, going native, and the rightness of might
Survival, arrival, and growth : the world islanders built
The settler colony : Kanakas, Blacks, and racial borderlands
South Sea islanders resisting Kanakas : identity, consciousness, and community to 1906
The state : inside colonial violence, law, and order
Bulimen, hardwork, and muscular tension
Conclusion : structural continuity and the violence of forgetting.