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White Women in Fiji, 1835?1930 The Ruin of Empire?

First published in 1986, White Women in Fiji 1835-1930: The Ruin of Empire? challenges assumptions and assertions about the role of European women in multi-racial colonial societies. Author Claudia Knapman uses a combination of interviews, newspaper, and other sources to picture the lives of European women in Fiji between the 1830s and 1930s. She offers a new and challenging interpretation of the nature and inter-relationship between racism and sexism in colonial societies. As Knapman points out, gender has been used to argue that racial disharmony came with the presence of foreign.

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