| The Pretender of Pitcairn Island: Joshua W. Hill - The Man Who Would Be King Among the Bounty Mutineers Contributor(s): Nechtman, Tillman W. (Author) |
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ISBN: 1108440800 ISBN-13: 9781108440806 Publisher: Cambridge University Press
WE WILL NOT BE UNDERSOLD! Click here for our low price guarantee Binding Type: Paperback - See All Available Formats & Editions Published: September 2018 |
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| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | World - General - History | Oceania |
| Dewey: 996.18 |
| LCCN: 2018015245 |
| Physical Information: 0.68" H x 6.43" W x 8.94" L (1.30 lbs) 362 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Oceania |
| Features: Bibliography, Index, Price on Product |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |
Contributor Bio(s): Nechtman, Tillman W.: - Tillman W. Nechtman is Professor and Chair of the Department of History at Skidmore College, New York. He writes extensively on the British Empire in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, and his previous works include Nabobs: Identity and Empire in Eighteenth-Century Britain (Cambridge, 2010). |
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