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Mistress of everything : Queen Victoria in indigenous worlds / edited by Sarah Carter and Maria Nugent

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Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2016.
Copyright Date
©2016
Physical Description
xvi, 257 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.
Additional Creators
Carter, Sarah, 1954- and Nugent, Maria

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Machine generated contents note: pt. I Monarch, metaphor, memory -- 1.`We have seen the son of Heaven/We have seen the Son of Our Queen': African encounters with Prince Alfred on his royal tour, 1860 / Hilary Sapire -- 2.`We rejoice to honour the Queen, for she is a good woman, who cares for the Maori race': Loyalty and protest in Maori politics in nineteenth-century New Zealand / Michael Belgrave -- 3.`The faithful children of the Great Mother are starving': Queen Victoria in contact zone dialogues in western Canada / Sarah Carter -- 4.The politics of memory and the memory of politics: Australian Aboriginal interpretations of Queen Victoria 1881--2011 / Maria Nugent -- pt. II Royal relations -- 5.`My vast Empire & all its many peoples': Queen Victoria's imperial family / Barbara Caine -- 6.Maori encounters with `Wikitoria' in 1863 and Albert Victor Pomare, her Maori godchild / Chanel Clarke -- 7.Southern African royalty and delegates visit Queen Victoria 1882--95 / Neil Parsons -- pt. III Sovereign subjects? -- 8.Sovereignty performances, sovereignty testings: The Queen's currency and imperial pedagogies on Australia's south-eastern settler frontiers / Penelope Edmonds -- 9.Bracelets, blankets and badges of distinction: Aboriginal subjects and Queen Victoria's gifts in Canada and Australia / Amanda Nettelbeck -- 10.Chiefly women: Queen Victoria, Meri Mangakahia, and the Maori parliament / Miranda Johnson.
Summary
Mistress of everything examines how indigenous people across Britain's settler colonies engaged with Queen Victoria in their lives and predicaments, incorporated her into their political repertoires, and implicated her as they sought redress for the effects of imperial expansion during her long reign. It draws together empirically rich studies from Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and Southern Africa, to provide scope for comparative and transnational analysis. The book includes chapters on a Maori visit to Queen Victoria in 1863, meetings between African leaders and the Queen's son Prince Alfred in 1860, gift-giving in the Queen's name on colonial frontiers in Canada and Australia, and Maori women's references to Queen Victoria in support of their own chiefly status and rights.
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ISBN
9781784991401 (hardback)
1784991406 (hardback)
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 246-248) and index.
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