Bad Colonists: The South Seas Letters of Vernon Lee Walker and Louis Becke

by Nicholas Thomas and Richard Eves

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In Bad Colonists Nicholas Thomas and Richard Eves provide a window into the fantasies and realities of colonial life by presenting separate sets of letters by two late-nineteenth-century British colonists of the South Pacific: Vernon Lee Walker and Louis Becke. Thomas and Eves frame the letters--addressed mostly to the colonists' mothers--with commentary that explores colonial degeneration in the South Pacific. Using critical anthropology and...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0822322226

ISBN13:9780822322221

Release Date:January 1999

Publisher:Duke University Press

Length:192 Pages

Weight:0.75 lbs.

Dimensions:0.6" x 6.0" x 9.3"

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