Mistress of everything : Queen Victoria in Indigenous worlds /

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors:	Carter, Sarah, 1954- (Editor), Nugent, Maria (Editor)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Manchester : Manchester University Press, [2016]
Series:	Studies in imperialism (Manchester, England)
Subjects:	Victoria, > Queen of Great Britain, > 1819-1901 > Public opinion. Great Britain > Colonies > History > 19th century. Great Britain > History > Victoria, 1837-1901. Great Britain > Colonies > Social conditions > 19th century. Visits of state > History > 19th century. 1800-1901 Electronic books.
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Table of Contents:

Introduction : Indigenous histories, settler colonies and Queen Victoria
1. "We have seen the son of Heaven/We have seen the son of our Queen" : African encounters with Prince Alfred on his royal tour, 1860
2. "We rejoice to honour the Queen, for she is a good woman, who cares for the Māori race" : loyalty and protest in Maori politics in nineteenth-century New Zealand
3. "The faithful children of the Great Mother are starving" : Queen Victoria in contact zone dialogues in western Canada
4. The politics of memory and the memory of politics : Australian Aboriginal interpretations of Queen Victoria, 1881-2011
5. "My vast Empire & all its many peoples" : Queen Victoria's imperial family
6. Māori encounters with 'Wikitoria' in 1863 and Albert Victor Pomare, her Māori godchild
7. Southern African royalty and delegates visit Queen Victoria, 1882-95
8. Sovereignty performances, sovereignty testings : the Queen's currency and imperial pedagogies on Australia's south-eastern settler frontiers
9. Bracelets, blankets and badges of distinction : Aboriginal subjects and Queen Victoria's gifts in Canada and Australia
10. Chiefly women : Queen Victoria, Meri Mangakahia, and the Māori parliament.