Pretender of Pitcairn Island - Joshua W. Hill - The Man Who Would Be King Among the Bounty Mutineers

A study of one imposter and his influential vision for British control over the nineteenth-century Pacific Ocean.

List of contents

Prologue: telling tales of the South Pacific; 1. The masquerade; 2. The chosen people; 3. Kingdoms of God; 4. The age of reform; 5. The island; 6. Seduction; 7. Colonization; Epilogue: the self-constituted king of Pitcairn.

About the author

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).

Summary

The island occupied by HMAV Bounty's descendants later became home to a fraud who, with no official remit, became a virtual dictator with an influential vision for British control over the nineteenth-century Pacific Ocean. His story reframes the way we view that period of British imperial history onto a tiny Pacific island.

Product details

• Authors: Tillman Nechtman, Tillman (Skidmore College Nechtman, Tillman W. Nechtman, Tillman W. (Skidmore College Nechtman, Nechtman Tillman W.
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.08.2018
• EAN: 9781108424684
• ISBN: 978-1-108-42468-4
• No. of pages: 362
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900, HISTORY / World, c 1800 to c 1900, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, c 1500 onwards to present day, Australasian & Pacific history, History and Archaeology, Australasian and Pacific history, Pitcairn Island