A Footnote to History: Eight Years of Trouble in Samoa
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A Footnote to History: Eight Years of Trouble in Samoa
| A Footnote to History: Eight Years of Trouble in Samoa | |
|---|---|
| Author(s) | Robert Louis Stevenson |
| Language | English |
| Subject(s) | Samoan Civil War |
| Genre(s) | history |
| Publisher | Cassell |
| Publication date | 1892 |
| Published in English |
1892 |
| Media type | book |
| Pages | 322 |
| ISBN | 0-8248-1857-1 |
| OCLC Number | 227258432 |
A Footnote to History: Eight Years of Trouble in Samoa is a historical non-fiction work by Robert Louis Stevenson. describing the Samoan Civil War.[1]
Robert Louis Stevenson arrived in Samoa in 1889 and built a house at Vailima. He quickly became passionately interested, and involved, in the attendant political machinations. These involved the three colonial powers battling for control of Samoa - America, Germany and Britain - and the indigenous factions struggling to preserve their ancient political system. The book covers the period from 1882 to 1892.[2]
The book served as such a stinging protest against existing conditions that it resulted in the recall of two officials, and Stevenson for a time feared that it would result in his own deportation. When things had finally blown over he wrote to Colvin, who came from a family of distinguished colonial administrators, "I used to think meanly of the plumber; but how he shines beside the politician!"[3]
References
- ^ "R.L Stevenson on Samoa" (contemporary book review). New York Times. 14 August 1892. http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=9A03E6DC1238E233A25757C1A96E9C94639ED7CF. Retrieved 4 October 2009.
- ^ http://www.robert-louis-stevenson.org/other-writing/22-footnote-to-history
- ^ Letter to Sidney Colvin, April 17, 1893, Vailima Letters, Chapter XXVIII.
- Stevenson, Robert Louis "Eight Years of Trouble in Samoa" A Footnote to History eBooks@Adelaide, The University of Adelaide Library ISBN 0-8248-1857-1 9780824818579 OCLC 227258432 http://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/s/stevenson/robert_louis/s848fh/
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