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Kate Stevens is Lecturer of History at University of Waikato, New Zealand. Her research focuses on comparative histories of cultural, environmental and economic exchange in the colonial and postcolonial Pacific. She has published her work in the Journal of Pacific History, Law and History Review and The Contemporary Pacific, and supported by the Marsden Fund and Camargo Foundation.
"""It is unusual to examine different national forms of colonialism alongside one another and comparatively within the same region at the same time. This book does so with great success, showing how magistrates, colonists, missionaries, indentured workers and Pacific Islanders negotiated and conflicted over forms of law and justice. Both the limits and the power of colonial law enforcement are revealed, along with its racialized and gendered nature."" --Alan Lester, Professor of Historical Geography, University of Sussex, UK ""This finely-drawn, illuminating study of law-making in the colonial Pacific uncovers how complex cultures of gender, race and colonial violence came together inside and beyond the colonial courtroom, revealing the coercive yet fractured nature of colonial governance and, within it, the strategic responses of colonized subjects."" --Amanda Nettelbeck, Professor, Australian Catholic University, Australia ""Kate Stevens' excellent study, combining analyses of systems of formal justice and 'rough justice' with discussions of the lived experiences of the colonised and colonising, provides an original and very perceptive contribution to the history of the South Pacific and to our understanding of crime and punishment in colonial situations."" --Robert Aldrich, Professor Emeritus, The University of Sydney, Australia"
