Seascapes' memories and construction of the Ego Conqueror: colonised coastal landscapes in the Southwest Pacific, 1884–1912.
The colonisation of the Southwest Pacific Islands was grounded in a narrative of racial superiority of the Australian and British colonisers. People from these islands sustained the sugar cane plantation in Queensland, where they were taken through Blackbirding, a method of people extraction that in...
| Publicado en: | Postcolonial Studies Vol. 28; no. 1; pp. 55 - 78 |
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