Author: STEVENSON, Robert Louis. Title: A Footnote to History, eight years of trouble in Samoa.
Description: London, Cassell 1892. Octavo very good in publisher's cloth; frontispiece map. ¶ First edition. Stevenson threw himself into Samoan politics and was instrumental in the dismissal of the chief justice and president of the council. This is intended as a 'plain account' of local politics written in the hope of improving the treaty powers' policies.
Keywords: history politics c19th Samoa Pacific literature government
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- Book number: 8595