Jane Samson
Biographic Data
| ID | 628406 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jane Samson |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jane |
| FAMILY NAME | Samson |
| SIGNATURE | SAMSON J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Alberta |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 27 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 29 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 24 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 3 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1995 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Te Moana Nui a Kiwa: The Tide-Beating Heart of Earth
The Cambridge History of the Pacific Ocean: The Pacific Ocean since 1800
Volume II of The Cambridge History of the Pacific Ocean focuses on the latest era of Pacific history, examining the period from 1800 to the present day. This volume discusses advances and emerging trends in the historiography of the colonial era, before outlining the main themes of the twentieth century when the idea of a Pacific-centred century emerged. It concludes by exploring how history and the past inform preparations for the emerging chall…
British Imperial Strategies in the Pacific, 1750–1900
British Imperial Strategies in the Pacific, 1750-1900
Captain Cook Rediscovered: Voyaging to the Icy Latitudes
"Captain Cook Rediscovered: Voyaging to the Icy Latitudes." History: Reviews of New Books, 49(5), pp. 128–129
Too zealous guardians?: The Royal Navy and the South Pacific labour trade
This chapter examines the idea of naval guardianship as expressed in the Royal Navy's campaign against the South Pacific labour trade. Throughout this campaign, sympathetic naval officers regarded Britain, through her navy, as the guardian of Christian humanity in the South Pacific. The British naval response to Pacific islanders and their interaction with Europeans, particularly during the controversial labour trade, help to understand the way n…
Imperial Benevolence: Making British Authority in the Pacific Islands
The ‘Sleepiness’ of George Sarawia: The Impact of Disease on the Melanesian Mission at Mota, c. 1870–1900
George Sarawia, ordained in 1873 as the Melanesian Mission’s first Indigenous priest, was a pioneering figure in the mission’s plans for an Indigenous-led Anglican Church in the region. Sarawia founded Kohimarama, a mission station on Mota in the Banks Islands, Vanuatu, where he taught Mota Islanders and hosted visiting teachers and clergy. By the 1890s, some of the European missionaries had become critical of Sarawia and his flock on Mota, under…
Missionary families: Race, gender and generation on the spiritual frontier by Emily J. Manktelow
Reviewed by: Missionary families: Race, gender and generation on the spiritual frontier by Emily J. Manktelow Jane Samson Missionary families: Race, gender and generation on the spiritual frontier By Emily J. Manktelow. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2013. Published in the prestigious "Studies in Imperialism" series, where an emphasis on the cultural histories of empire has always been to the fore, Emily Manktelow's important contributi…
Cracking the ‘Antigone nut’: Lorimer Fison, Social Anthropology, and Classical Scholarship
Lorimer Fison, Methodist missionary to Fiji in the late nineteenth century, was a prime example of anthropology ‘before the field’. One of the pioneers of social anthropology, he conducted significant fieldwork in both Fiji and Australia. While comparing certain features of ancient Greek drama with insights from his Pacific research, he solved longstanding puzzles concerning ancient Greek kinship terminology. This chapter will not attempt to asse…
The Great Ocean: Pacific worlds from Captain Cook to the gold rush
It seems only yesterday that Dennis Flynn and Arturo Giraldez launched their Pacific World series with the aim of calling attention to trans-Pacific connections since the 16th century. Nevertheless
Scurvy martyrdom: Allen Gardiner and the Patagonian Mission
In 1851 a small party of British missionaries died of scurvy and starvation in Tierra del Fuego. Led by retired Royal Navy commander Allen Gardiner, the expedition was poorly planned, lacked reliable supplies, and faced relentless hostility from the indigenous Yaghan. Nevertheless, Gardiner and his companions would not be remembered as failures. Scurvy, an iconic disease of exploration and empire, became an icon of missionary martyrdom. Extensive…
Islanders
The Aborigines’ Protection Society: Humanitarian imperialism in Australia, New Zealand, Fiji, Canada, South Africa, and the Congo, 1837–1909. By James Heartfield
The Aborigines’ Protection Society: humanitarian imperialism in Australia, New Zealand, Fiji, Canada, South Africa, and the Congo, 1837–1909. By James Heartfield. London, C. Hurst, and New York, Co
Pacific History in Context
Hero, fool or martyr? The many deaths of Commodore goodenough
(2008). Hero, fool or martyr? The many deaths of Commodore goodenough. Journal for Maritime Research: Vol. 10, No. 1, pp. 1-22
"An historical pilgrimage among "the last heathen
Race and empire
Preface List of abbreviations Chronology Maps Part One: Introduction 1. Background and Context Part Two: Analysis 1. The Early Modern Period 2. The Rise of the Modern Empires, 1700-1820 3. Settlement and Consolidation, 1820-1880 4. The Age of Scientific Racism, 1880-1950 Part Three: Assessment 5. Conclusions Part Four: Documents
Pink Ice: Britain and the South Atlantic Empire (review)
Are you what you believe? Some thoughts on Ornamentalism and religion
Journal of Colonialism and Colonial History - Volume 3, Number 1, Spring 2002
The British Empire
The phenomenon of imperialism has never been under such intense scrutiny, by such a wide range of academic disciplines, as it is today. From cultural studies to the history of science, academics are engaged in a series of debates about empire which move far beyond traditional preoccupations with metropolitan strategy, economics, and rivalry. Using primary and secondary documentary sources, this reader negotiates the many trends and concerns in re…
Pacific Empires: Essays in Honour of Glyndwr Williams
Glyndwr Williams has profoundly influenced the development of new understandings of European exploration and imperialism. This is a collection of stimulating contributions from a number of Williams's colleagues. It is a fitting tribute to his achievements and to the esteem in which his colleagues hold him
Pacific Empires: Essays in Honour of Glyndwr Williams
Journal Article Pacific Empires: Essays in Honour of Glyndwr Williams Get access Pacific Empires: Essays in Honour of Glyndwr Williams. Edited by Frost Alan Samson Jane. (Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, 1999. xii + 334 pp. Illustrations, maps, tables, appendix, notes, bibliography, index. $75.00, cloth; $27.95, paper.) Carol Urness Carol Urness James Ford Bell Library, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis Search for other works b…
Imperial Benevolence: Making British Authority in the Pacific Islands
Desert Queen: The Extraordinary Life of Gertrude Bell: Adventurer, Adviser to Kings, Ally of Lawrence of Arabia
Imperial Benevolence: Making British Authority in the Pacific Islands
The Great Ocean: Pacific worlds from Captain Cook to the gold rush
It seems only yesterday that Dennis Flynn and Arturo Giraldez launched their Pacific World series with the aim of calling attention to trans-Pacific connections since the 16th century. Nevertheless
Desert Queen: The Extraordinary Life of Gertrude Bell: Adventurer, Adviser to Kings, Ally of Lawrence of Arabia
A Woman of Courage: The Journal of Rose de Freycinet on her Voyage around the World 1817-1820
Hero, fool or martyr? The many deaths of Commodore goodenough
(2008). Hero, fool or martyr? The many deaths of Commodore goodenough. Journal for Maritime Research: Vol. 10, No. 1, pp. 1-22
Rescuing Fijian women? The British anti‐slavery proclamation of 1852
This essay explores missionary allegations about slave‐dealing in Fiji, and their acceptance by British officials, as cultural responses to sexual relationships between indigenous women and white men. It also examines the imperial implications of ‘the culture of anti‐slavery’, whereby rhetoric about the enslavement of non‐European women became a rationale for attempted legal intervention in the mixed‐race community of Levuka. Finally, it consider…
A Woman of Courage: The Journal of Rose de Freycinet on her Voyage around the World 1817-1820
Desert Queen: The Extraordinary Life of Gertrude Bell: Adventurer, Adviser to Kings, Ally of Lawrence of Arabia
Pacific Empires: Essays in Honour of Glyndwr Williams
Journal Article Pacific Empires: Essays in Honour of Glyndwr Williams Get access Pacific Empires: Essays in Honour of Glyndwr Williams. Edited by Frost Alan Samson Jane. (Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, 1999. xii + 334 pp. Illustrations, maps, tables, appendix, notes, bibliography, index. $75.00, cloth; $27.95, paper.) Carol Urness Carol Urness James Ford Bell Library, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis Search for other works b…
Imperial Benevolence: Making British Authority in the Pacific Islands
The British Empire
The phenomenon of imperialism has never been under such intense scrutiny, by such a wide range of academic disciplines, as it is today. From cultural studies to the history of science, academics are engaged in a series of debates about empire which move far beyond traditional preoccupations with metropolitan strategy, economics, and rivalry. Using primary and secondary documentary sources, this reader negotiates the many trends and concerns in re…
Pacific Empires: Essays in Honour of Glyndwr Williams
Glyndwr Williams has profoundly influenced the development of new understandings of European exploration and imperialism. This is a collection of stimulating contributions from a number of Williams's colleagues. It is a fitting tribute to his achievements and to the esteem in which his colleagues hold him
Are you what you believe? Some thoughts on Ornamentalism and religion
Journal of Colonialism and Colonial History - Volume 3, Number 1, Spring 2002
Pink Ice: Britain and the South Atlantic Empire (review)
Race and empire
Preface List of abbreviations Chronology Maps Part One: Introduction 1. Background and Context Part Two: Analysis 1. The Early Modern Period 2. The Rise of the Modern Empires, 1700-1820 3. Settlement and Consolidation, 1820-1880 4. The Age of Scientific Racism, 1880-1950 Part Three: Assessment 5. Conclusions Part Four: Documents
"An historical pilgrimage among "the last heathen
Hero, fool or martyr? The many deaths of Commodore goodenough
(2008). Hero, fool or martyr? The many deaths of Commodore goodenough. Journal for Maritime Research: Vol. 10, No. 1, pp. 1-22
Pacific History in Context
Islanders
The Aborigines’ Protection Society: Humanitarian imperialism in Australia, New Zealand, Fiji, Canada, South Africa, and the Congo, 1837–1909. By James Heartfield
The Aborigines’ Protection Society: humanitarian imperialism in Australia, New Zealand, Fiji, Canada, South Africa, and the Congo, 1837–1909. By James Heartfield. London, C. Hurst, and New York, Co
Scurvy martyrdom: Allen Gardiner and the Patagonian Mission
In 1851 a small party of British missionaries died of scurvy and starvation in Tierra del Fuego. Led by retired Royal Navy commander Allen Gardiner, the expedition was poorly planned, lacked reliable supplies, and faced relentless hostility from the indigenous Yaghan. Nevertheless, Gardiner and his companions would not be remembered as failures. Scurvy, an iconic disease of exploration and empire, became an icon of missionary martyrdom. Extensive…
The Great Ocean: Pacific worlds from Captain Cook to the gold rush
It seems only yesterday that Dennis Flynn and Arturo Giraldez launched their Pacific World series with the aim of calling attention to trans-Pacific connections since the 16th century. Nevertheless
Cracking the ‘Antigone nut’: Lorimer Fison, Social Anthropology, and Classical Scholarship
Lorimer Fison, Methodist missionary to Fiji in the late nineteenth century, was a prime example of anthropology ‘before the field’. One of the pioneers of social anthropology, he conducted significant fieldwork in both Fiji and Australia. While comparing certain features of ancient Greek drama with insights from his Pacific research, he solved longstanding puzzles concerning ancient Greek kinship terminology. This chapter will not attempt to asse…
Too zealous guardians?: The Royal Navy and the South Pacific labour trade
This chapter examines the idea of naval guardianship as expressed in the Royal Navy's campaign against the South Pacific labour trade. Throughout this campaign, sympathetic naval officers regarded Britain, through her navy, as the guardian of Christian humanity in the South Pacific. The British naval response to Pacific islanders and their interaction with Europeans, particularly during the controversial labour trade, help to understand the way n…
Imperial Benevolence: Making British Authority in the Pacific Islands
The ‘Sleepiness’ of George Sarawia: The Impact of Disease on the Melanesian Mission at Mota, c. 1870–1900
George Sarawia, ordained in 1873 as the Melanesian Mission’s first Indigenous priest, was a pioneering figure in the mission’s plans for an Indigenous-led Anglican Church in the region. Sarawia founded Kohimarama, a mission station on Mota in the Banks Islands, Vanuatu, where he taught Mota Islanders and hosted visiting teachers and clergy. By the 1890s, some of the European missionaries had become critical of Sarawia and his flock on Mota, under…
Missionary families: Race, gender and generation on the spiritual frontier by Emily J. Manktelow
Reviewed by: Missionary families: Race, gender and generation on the spiritual frontier by Emily J. Manktelow Jane Samson Missionary families: Race, gender and generation on the spiritual frontier By Emily J. Manktelow. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2013. Published in the prestigious "Studies in Imperialism" series, where an emphasis on the cultural histories of empire has always been to the fore, Emily Manktelow's important contributi…
British Imperial Strategies in the Pacific, 1750–1900
British Imperial Strategies in the Pacific, 1750-1900
Captain Cook Rediscovered: Voyaging to the Icy Latitudes
"Captain Cook Rediscovered: Voyaging to the Icy Latitudes." History: Reviews of New Books, 49(5), pp. 128–129
History (22 works) · Archaeology (13 works) · Ancient history (11 works) · Political science (10 works) · Genealogy (8 works) · Island Studies and Pacific Affairs (8 works) · Art (7 works) · Colonialism, slavery, and trade (6 works) · Law (6 works) · Sociology (6 works)