The pretender of Pitcairn Island : Joshua W. Hill - the man who would be king among the Bounty mutineers /

The pretender of Pitcairn Island : Joshua W. Hill - the man who would be king among the Bounty mutineers /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Nechtman, Tillman W., author.
Edition:	First edition.
Imprint:	Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2018. ©2018
Description:	xix, 344 pages : illustrations; 24 cm
Language:	English
Subject:	Hill, Joshua W., -- 1773- Bounty Mutiny (1789) Impostors and imposture -- Pitcairn Island -- Biography. Bounty Mutiny, 1789. Impostors and imposture. Politics and government. Pitcairn Island -- History. Pitcairn Island -- Politics and government. Pitcairn Islands. Biography. History.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11715558

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Varying Form of Title:	Joshua W. Hill, the man who would be king among the Bounty mutineers
ISBN:	9781108424684 1108424686 9781108440806 1108440800 9781108615044 (PDF ebook)
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary:	"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"--
Other form:	ebook version : 9781108615044

Table of Contents:

Telling Tales of the South Pacific
The Masquerade
The Chosen People
Kingdoms of God
The Age of Reform
The Island
Seduction
Colonization.