Mistress of everything : Queen Victoria in indigenous worlds / edited by Sarah Carter and Maria Nugent.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Nugent, Maria, editor.

Carter, Sarah, 1954- editor.

Series:

Studies in imperialism.

Studies in imperialism

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Victoria, Queen of Great Britain, 1819-1901.

Victoria, Queen of Great Britain, 1819-1901--Public opinion.

Visits of state--History--19th century.

Visits of state.

Great Britain.

Great Britain--Colonies--Social conditions--19th century.

Great Britain--Colonies--History--19th century.

Great Britain--History--Victoria, 1837-1901.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (280 pages) : illustrations, maps; digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

MSI edition.

Place of Publication:

Manchester, UK : Manchester University Press, 2017, 2016.

Language Note:

In English.

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:

Introduction: Indigenous histories, settler colonies and Queen Victoria / Maria Nugent and Sarah Carter

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

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

3. 'The faithful children of the Great Mother are starving': Queen Victoria in contact zone dialogues in western Canada / Sarah Carter

4. The politics of memory and the memory of politics: Australian Aboriginal interpretations of Queen Victoria, 1881-2011 / Maria Nugent

Part II. Royal relations

5. 'My vast Empire & all its many peoples': Queen Victoria's imperial family / Barbara Caine

6. Maori encounters with 'Wikitoria' in 1863 and Albert VictorPomare, her Maori godchild / Chanel Clarke

7. Southern African royalty and delegates visit Queen Victoria, 1882-95 / Neil Parsons

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

9. Bracelets, blankets and badges of distinction: Aboriginal subjects and Queen Victoria's gifts in Canada and Australia / Amanda Nettelbeck

10. Chiefly women: Queen Victoria, Meri Mangakahia, and the Maori parliament / Miranda Johnson

Select bibliography

Index.

Notes:

Previously issued in print: 2016.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print record and e-Publication PDF, viewed on May 26, 2017.

ISBN:

1-5261-1506-9

1-5261-0032-0

9781526114952

OCLC:

980781170