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Empire islands : castaways, cannibals, and fantasies of conquest
- Title
- Empire islands : castaways, cannibals, and fantasies of conquest / Rebecca Weaver-Hightower.
- Author
- Weaver-Hightower, Rebecca.
- Publication
- Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, c2007.
- Supplementary Content
- Publisher description
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Text | Use in library | JFE 07-7045 | Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 |
Details
- Description
- xxix, 277 p. : ill., maps; 24 cm.
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 245-265) and index.
- Contents
- Monarchs of all they survey -- Disciplined islands : white fatherhood, homosocial masculinity, and law -- Voracious cannibals, rapacious pirates, and threats of counterincorporation -- "Falling to the lowest degree of brutishness" : wild men, monsters, and the bestial taint -- Island parodies and Crusoe pantomimes : resistance from within -- The U.S. island fantasy, or cast away with Gilligan.
- Call Number
- JFE 07-7045
- ISBN
- 9780816648627 (hc : alk. paper)
- 081664862X (hc : alk. paper)
- 9780816648634 (pb : alk. paper)
- 0816648638 (pb : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 2006100756
- OCLC
- 72149973
- Author
- Weaver-Hightower, Rebecca.
- Title
- Empire islands : castaways, cannibals, and fantasies of conquest / Rebecca Weaver-Hightower.
- Imprint
- Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, c2007.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 245-265) and index.
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- Research Call Number
- JFE 07-7045