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The pretender of Pitcairn Island : Joshua W. Hill - the man who would be king among the Bounty mutineers
- Title
- The pretender of Pitcairn Island : Joshua W. Hill - the man who would be king among the Bounty mutineers / Tillman W. Nechtman.
- Author
- Nechtman, Tillman W.
- Publication
- Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2018.
- ©2018
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- Description
- xix, 344 pages : illustrations; 24 cm
- Summary
- "Pitcairn, a tiny Pacific Island that was refuge to the mutineers of HMAV Bounty and home to their descendants, later became the stage on which one imposter played out his influential vision for British control over the nineteenth-century Pacific Ocean. Joshua W. Hill arrived on Pitcairn in 1832 and began his fraudulent half-decade rule that has until now been swept aside as an idiosyncratic moment in the larger saga of Fletcher Christian's mutiny against Captain Bligh, and the mutineers' unlikely settlement of Pitcairn. Here, Hill is shown instead as someone alert to the full scope and power of the British empire, to the geopolitics of international imperial competition, to the ins and outs of naval command, the vicissitudes of court politics, and, as such, to Pitcairn's symbolic power for the British empire more broadly"--
- Alternative Title
- Joshua W. Hill, the man who would be king among the Bounty mutineers
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- Biography.
- History.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Telling Tales of the South Pacific -- The Masquerade -- The Chosen People -- Kingdoms of God -- The Age of Reform -- The Island -- Seduction -- Colonization.
- Call Number
- JFE 19-101
- ISBN
- 9781108424684
- 1108424686
- 9781108440806
- 1108440800
- LCCN
- 2018015245
- OCLC
- 1032356675
- Author
- Nechtman, Tillman W., author.
- Title
- The pretender of Pitcairn Island : Joshua W. Hill - the man who would be king among the Bounty mutineers / Tillman W. Nechtman.
- Publisher
- Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2018.
- Copyright Date
- ©2018
- Edition
- First edition.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Chronological Term
- 1789
- Other Form:
- ebook version : 9781108615044
- Research Call Number
- JFE 19-101