"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 183...

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1. Verfasser:	Nechtman, Tillman W. ca. 20./21. Jh (VerfasserIn)
Format:	Buch
Sprache:	English
Veröffentlicht:	Cambridge ; New York ; Port Melbourne ; New Delhi ; Singapore Cambridge University Press 2018
Schlagworte:	Hill, Joshua W. > 1773- Hill, Joshua W. > 1773-1844 Geschichte 1832 Geschichte 1790-1850 HISTORY / World / bisacsh Impostors and imposture > Pitcairn Island > Biography Bounty Mutiny, 1789 HISTORY / World Bounty > Schiff Nachkomme Außenwelt Meuterei Pitcairn Island > History Pitcairn Island > Politics and government Pitcairn
Zusammenfassung:	"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"...
Beschreibung:	Includes bibliographical references and index
Beschreibung:	xix, 344 Seiten 14 Illustrationen
ISBN:	9781108440806 9781108424684