Jane Samson

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Jane Dianne Samson (born 1962 ) is a Canadian historian specializing in the history of the British Empire .

Life

Samson received her BA (Classical Sciences and History) and MA (History) from the University of Victoria in 1983 and 1986. She moved to postdoctoral studies at the University of London and lectured at Birkbeck College in 1992-1993 London. In 1994 she obtained her Ph.D. in story with a paper on 'Protective Supremacy': The Royal Navy. Pacific Islanders and the limits of benevolence, 1829-1859 at the University of London. From 1994 to 1996 she worked as a Caird Research Fellow at the National Maritime Museum in Greenwich and from 1997 to 1998 as a Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of Commonwealth Studies , before returning to Canada in 1998 and at the University of Alberta in Edmonton in the Department of History and Classics worked as a university teacher.

London had offered her excellent research opportunities in her specialty, as the National Archives, the Foreign and Commonwealth Office migrated archives, the largest museum of maritime history, the National Maritime Museum, the maps of the Royal Geographical Society and the Institute for Commonwealth Studies all come together in one city. She wrote about the British Empire, the Royal Navy , Missionary Mission in the Pacific, India, and Blackbirding .

She was elected a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society in 1994 and a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society in 1998 .

Fonts

  • Ex aequo et bono Lord Mansfield and commercial law. 1986 (also MA dissertation).
  • Victorian mission ethnography in the South Pacific. North Atlantic Missiology Project, University of Cambridge, Cambridge 1996.
  • 'Protective supremacy': The Royal Navy. Pacific Islanders and the limits of benevolence, 1829-1859. 1994 (also Ph.D. dissertation).
  • Imperial benevolence. Making British authority in the Pacific Islands. University of Hawaii Press / Curzon Press, Honolulu / London 1998.
  • Race and empire. Seminar Studies in History. Longman, London 2004.

Editorships

  • with Alan Frost (Ed.): Pacific Empires. Essays in Honor of Glyndwr Williams . Melbourne University Press / UBC Press, Melbourne / Vancouver 1999.
  • (Ed.): The British empire. (Oxford Readers Series). Oxford University Press, Oxford 2001, ISBN 0-19-289293-2 .
  • (Ed.): British imperial strategies in the Pacific, 1750-1900. Ashgate Press, Aldershot 2003.

Contributions (selection)

  • Rescuing Fijian women? The British anti-slavery proclamation of 1852. In: Journal of Pacific History , Volume 30, 1995, pp. 22-38 ( JSTOR 25169248 ).
  • British Voices and Indigenous Rights. Debating Aboriginal Legal Status in Nineteenth-Century Australia and Canada. In: Cultures of the Commonwealth , Volume 2, 1996/97, pp. 5-16.
  • Imperial Benevolence. The Royal Navy and the Labor Trade, 1876-1872. In: The Great Circle , Volume 18, 1997, pp. 14-29.
  • British Authority or 'Mere Theory'? Colonial Law and Native People on Vancouver Island. In: Western Legal History , Volume 11, 1999, pp. 39-63.
  • Too Zealous Guardians? The Royal Navy and the south Pacific Labor Trade. In: David Killingray, David Omissi (eds.): Guardians of Empire. University of Manchester Press, Manchester 1999, pp. 70-90.
  • Ethnology and Theology. Nineteenth-Century Mission Dilemmas in the South Pacific. In: Brian Stanley (ed.): Christian Missions and the Enlightenment. Curzon Press, London 2001, pp. 99-122.
  • Landscapes of Faith. British Missionary Tourism in the South Pacific. In: Gareth Griffiths, Jamie W. Scott (Eds.): Mixed Messages. Materiality, textuality, missions. Palgrave, New York 2005, ISBN 978-0-312-29576-9 , pp. 89-109.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Jane Samson ( Memento of the original from March 12, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Biography, University of Alberta website. Retrieved February 13, 2017.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.historyandclassics.ualberta.ca
  2. ↑ Review: Carol Urness: Pacific Empires: Essays in Honor of Glyndwr Williams by Alan Frost, Jane Samson. In: Western Historical Quarterly , Volume 31, 2000, pp. 516-517 ( JSTOR 970135 ). Retrieved February 13, 2017.
personal data
SURNAME Samson, Jane
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Samson, Jane Dianne (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Canadian historian
DATE OF BIRTH 1962