Taming cannibals : race and the Victorians / Patrick Brantlinger.

  • Brantlinger, Patrick, 1941-
Date:
2011
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Publication/Creation

Ithaca ; London : Cornell University Press, 2011.

Physical description

x, 277 pages ; 24 cm

Bibliographic information

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Missionaries and cannibals in nineteenth-century Fiji -- King Billy's bones : the last Tasmanians -- Going native in nineteenth-century history and literature -- "God works by races" : Benjamin Disraeli's Caucasian Arabian Hebrew tent -- Race and class in the 1860s -- The unbearable lightness of being Irish -- Mummy love : H. Rider Haggard and racial archaeology -- Shadows of the coming race -- Epilogue : Kipling's The white man's burden and its afterlives.

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  • 9780801450198
  • 0801450195