A Footnote to History Eight Years of Trouble in Samoa - Softcover

Stevenson, Robert Louis

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1977852912 ISBN 13: 9781977852915

Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2017

Synopsis

A Footnote to History: Eight Years of Trouble in Samoa is an 1892 historical non-fiction work by Robert Louis Stevenson describing the contemporary Samoan Civil War.
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.
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 Sidney 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!"
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Edition details

• Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Publication date: 2017
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1977852912
• ISBN 13: 9781977852915
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 92
• Editor: Anderson Taylor