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Informationen zum Autor Sarah Carter is Professor and H. M. Tory Chair in the Department of History and Classics and the Faculty of Native Studies at the University of AlbertaMaria Nugent is Research Fellow at the Australian Centre for Indigenous History in the School of History at the Australian National University Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung 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. -- . Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction: Indigenous histories, settler colonies and Queen Victoria - Maria Nugent and Sarah CarterPart I - Monarch, metaphor, memory1. '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 Sapire2. '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 Belgrave3. 'The faithful children of the Great Mother are starving': Queen Victoria in contact zone dialogues in western Canada - Sarah Carter4. The politics of memory and the memory of politics: Australian Aboriginal interpretations of Queen Victoria, 1881-2011 - Maria NugentPart II - Royal relations5. 'My vast Empire & all its many peoples': Queen Victoria's imperial family - Barbara Caine6. Maori encounters with 'Wikitoria' in 1863 and Albert VictorPomare, her Maori godchild - Chanel Clarke7. Southern African royalty and delegates visit Queen Victoria, 1882-95 - Neil ParsonsPart III - Sovereign subjects?8. Sovereignty performances, sovereignty testings: The Queen's currency and imperial pedagogies on Australia's south-eastern settler frontiers - Penelope Edmonds9. Bracelets, blankets and badges of distinction: Aboriginal subjects and Queen Victoria's gifts in Canada and Australia - Amanda Nettelbeck10. Chiefly women: Queen Victoria, Meri Mangakahia, and the Maori parliament - Miranda JohnsonSelect bibliographyIndex...
