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Mistress of everything : Queen Victoria in indigenous worlds / edited by Sarah Carter and Maria Nugent.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Studies in imperialism
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Victoria, Queen of Great Britain, 1819-1901--Public opinion.
- Victoria.
- Victoria, Queen of Great Britain, 1819-1901.
- Colonies.
- Social conditions.
- Visits of state.
- History.
- Public opinion.
- Great Britain--History--Victoria, 1837-1901.
- Great Britain.
- Visits of state--History--19th century.
- Great Britain--Colonies--History--19th century.
- Great Britain--Colonies--Social conditions--19th century.
- Genre:
- History.
- Physical Description:
- xvi, 257 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2016.
- Summary:
- 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. It draws together empirically rich studies from Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and Southern Africa, to provide scope for comparative and transnational analysis. The book includes chapters on a Maori visit to Queen Victoria in 1863, meetings between African leaders and the Queen's son Prince Alfred in 1860, gift-giving in the Queen's name on colonial frontiers in Canada and Australia, and Maori women's references to Queen Victoria in support of their own chiefly status and rights.
- Contents:
- Part I Monarch, metaphor, memory
- 1 '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 Sapire Sapire, Hilary 25
- 2 '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 Belgrave Belgrave, Zealand Michael 54
- 3 'The faithful children of the Great Mother are starving': Queen Victoria in contact zone dialogues in western Canada / Sarah Carter Carter, Sarah 78
- 4 The politics of memory and the memory of politics: Australian Aboriginal interpretations of Queen Victoria, 1881-2011 / Maria Nugent Nugent, Maria 100
- Part II Royal relations
- 5 'My vast Empire & all its many peoples': Queen Victoria's imperial family / Barbara Caine Caine, Barbara 125
- 6 Maori encounters with 'Wikitoria' in 1863 and Albert Victor Pomare, her Maori godchild / Chanel Clarke Clarke, Chanel 144
- 7 Southern African royalty and delegates visit Queen Victoria, 1882-95 / Neil Parsons Parsons, Neil 166
- Part III Sovereign subjects?
- 8 Sovereignty performances, sovereignty testings: The Queen's currency and imperial pedagogies on Australia's south-eastern settler frontiers / Penelope Edmonds Edmonds, Penelope 187
- 9 Bracelets, blankets and badges of distinction: Aboriginal subjects and Queen Victoria's gifts in Canada and Australia / Amanda Nettelbeck Nettelbeck, Amanda 210
- 10 Chiefly women: Queen Victoria, Meri Mangakahia, and the Maori parliament / Miranda Johnson Johnson, Miranda 228.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 246-248) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781784991401
- 1784991406
- OCLC:
- 945354461
- Publisher Number:
- 99969320586
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