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The Voice of Arii Taimai: Henry Adams and the Challenge of Empire
- Biography
- University of Hawai'i Press
- Volume 22, Number 2, Spring 1999
- pp. 209-236
- 10.1353/bio.2010.0243
- Article
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This article represents Henry Adams as distinctly divided on the question of imperialism. In his memoir about the last chiefess of Tahiti, he found a narrative that at once provided a just representation of his subject and silenced a narrative that implicated himself as biographer in his family's imperialist project.