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Pursuing respect in the Cannibal Isles : Americans in nineteenth-century Fiji / Nancy Shoemaker.

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This text shows that the aspirations of individual Americans to be recognized as people worthy of others' respect was a driving force in the global extension of U.S. influence shortly after the nation's founding. The work contends that extraterritorial Americans constituted the vanguard of...

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Main Author: Shoemaker, Nancy, 1958- (Author)
Other title:Cornell scholarship online.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2020.
Series:United States in the world.
Subjects:
Whippey, David.
Wallis, Mary > (Mary Davis)
Williams, John B.
Americans > Travel > Fiji > History > 19th century.
Fiji > Foreign public opinion, American > History > 19th century.
Visitors, Foreign > Fiji > Attitudes.
Fiji > Social life and customs > 19th century.
United States > Social life and customs > 19th century.
Fiji > Description and travel.
Public opinion > United States.

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