The Pretender of Pitcairn Island: Joshua W. Hill - The Man Who Would Be King Among the Bounty Mutineers

ISBN-13: 9781108424684 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 362 str.

Tillman Nechtman

Opis

A study of one imposter and his influential vision for British control over the nineteenth-century Pacific Ocean.

Recenzje

'Nechtman's book will be of great interest to historians of Pitcairn Island and the Pacific region at large.' Richard Lansdown, Journal of New Zealand and Pacific Studies

Spis treści

Prologue: telling tales of the South Pacific; 1. The masquerade; 2. The chosen people; 3. Kingdoms of God; 4. The age of reform; 5. The island; 6. Seduction; 7. Colonization; Epilogue: the self-constituted king of Pitcairn.