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As Britain industrialized in the early nineteenth century, animal
breeders faced the need to convert livestock into products while
maintaining the distinctive character of their breeds. Thus they
transformed cattle and sheep adapted to regional environments into
bulky, quick-fattening beasts. Exploring the environmental and
economic ramifications of imperial expansion on colonial
environments and production practices, Rebecca J. H. Woods traces
how global physiological and ecological diversity eroded under the
technological, economic, and cultural system that grew up around
the production of livestock by the British Empire. Attending to the
relationship between type and place and what it means to call a
particular breed of livestock ""native,"" Woods highlights the
inherent tension between consumer expectations in the metropole and
the ecological reality at the periphery. Based on extensive
archival work in the United Kingdom, New Zealand, and Australia,
this study illuminates the connections between the biological
consequences and the politics of imperialism. In tracing both the
national origins and imperial expansion of British breeds, Woods
uncovers the processes that laid the foundation for our livestock
industry today.
This volume is the first to explore the vibrant history of Magna
Carta in Aotearoa New Zealand's legal, political and popular
culture. Readers will benefit from in-depth analyses of the
Charter's reception along with explorations of its roles in regard
to larger constitutional themes. The common thread that binds the
collection together is its exploration of what the adoption of a
medieval charter as part of New Zealand's constitutional
arrangements has meant - and might mean - for a Pacific nation
whose identity remains in flux. The contributions to this volume
are grouped around three topics: remembrance and memorialization of
Magna Carta; the reception of the Charter by both Maori and
non-Maori between 1840 and 2015; and reflection on the roles that
the Charter may yet play in future constitutional debate. This
collection provides evidence of the enduring attraction of Magna
Carta, and its importance as a platform of constitutional
aspiration.
This book offers a fresh perspective on the Chinese diaspora. It is
about the mobilisation of knowledge across time and space,
exploring the history of Chinese market gardening in Australia and
New Zealand. It enlarges our understanding of processes of
technological change and human mobility, highlighting the mobility
of migrants as an essential element in the mobility and adaptation
of technologies. Truly multidisciplinary, Chinese Market Gardening
in Australia and New Zealand incorporates elements of economic,
agricultural, social, cultural and environmental history, along
with archaeology, to document how Chinese market gardeners from
subtropical southern China adapted their horticultural techniques
and technologies to novel environments and the demands of European
consumers. It shows that they made a significant contribution to
the economies of Australia and New Zealand, developing flexible
strategies to cope with the vagaries of climate and changing
business and social environments which were often hostile towards
Asian immigrants. Chinese Market Gardening in Australia and New
Zealand will appeal to students and scholars in the fields of the
Chinese diaspora, in particular the history of the Chinese in
Australasia; the history of technology; horticultural and garden
history; and environmental history, as well as Asian studies more
generally.
In this book, Veth develops a model of settlement and subsistence
in the Western Desert of Australia, drawing on his own
archaeological investigations, as well as ethnographic and
environmental data. Building on this model, he concludes with a
plausible reconstruction of the colonization of the harsh, arid
interior of this continent.
In the 1930s, a series of crises transformed relationships between
settlers and Aboriginal people in Australia's Northern Territory.
By the late 1930s, Australian settlers were coming to understand
the Northern Territory as a colonial formation requiring a new form
of government. Responding to crises of social reproduction, public
power, and legitimacy, they re-thought the scope of settler
colonial government by drawing on both the art of indirect rule and
on a representational economy of Indigenous elimination to develop
a new political dispensation that sought to incorporate and consume
Indigenous production and sovereignties. This book locates
Aboriginal history within imperial history, situating the settler
colonial politics of Indigeneity in a broader governmental context.
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2012 marks the 225th anniversary of the sailing of the eleven
vessels of the First Fleet from England, bound for Australia. From
the arrival of the first 788 convicts in 1788, to the end of
transportation in 1868, a staggering 165,000 criminals were sent to
Australia for a range of crimes. In addition to those transported,
hundreds of thousands of free persons emigrated from Britain and
Ireland to colonies in Australia. Because of the vast distance
involved, few returned, and the descendants of many of them now
live in Australia. Tracing those ancestors today may seem like a
daunting task, with The National Archives alone holding over 100
miles of shelving for historical records. Now completely revised
and expanded to include new research, Bound for Australia is the
essential guide to these records. By directing the reader straight
to the relevant files and providing a case study to follow the
stages necessary to research your Antipodean relatives, Hawkings
makes locating you Australian ancestors more achievable than ever
before. Who knows, you may even trace your ancestor to the
victualling list of 788 criminals on the First Fleet.
Presents the experiences of two burgeoning cities and the Irish
people that helped to establish what it was 'to be Irish' within
themSet within colonial Melbourne and Chicago, this book explores
the shifting influences of religious demography, educational
provision and club culture to shed new light on what makes a
diasporic ethnic community connect and survive over multiple
generations. The author focuses on these Irish populations as they
grew alongside their cities establishing the cultural and political
institutions of Melbourne and Chicago, and these comparisons allow
scholars to explore what happens when an ethnic group so often
considered 'other' have a foundational role in a city instead of
entering a society with established hierarchies. Forging Identities
in the Irish World places women and children alongside men to
explore the varied influences on migrant identity and community
life.
This book explores the relationship between political memories of
migration and the politics of migration, following over two hundred
years of commemorating Australia Day. References to Europeans'
original migration to the continent have been engaged in social and
political conflicts to define who should belong to Australian
society, who should gain access, and based on what criteria. These
political memories were instrumental in negotiating inherent
conflicts in the formation of the Australian Commonwealth from
settler colonies to an immigrant society. By the second half of the
twentieth century, the Commonwealth employed Australia Day
commemorations specifically to incorporate new arrivals, promoting
at first citizenship and, later on, multiculturalism. The
commemoration has been contested throughout its history based on
two distinct forms of political memories providing conflicting
modes of civic and communal belonging to Australian politics and
policies of migration. Introducing the concept of Political
Memories, this book offers a novel understanding of the social and
political role of memories, not only in regard to migration.
This book presents a philosophical history of Tasmania's past and
present with a particular focus on the double stories of genocide
and modernity. On the one hand, proponents of modernisation have
sought to close the past off from the present, concealing the
demographic disaster behind less demanding historical narratives
and politicised preoccupations such as convictism and
environmentalism. The second story, meanwhile, is told by anyone,
aboriginal or European, who has gone to the archive and found the
genocidal horrors hidden there. This volume blends both stories. It
describes the dual logics of genocide and modernity in Tasmania and
suggests that Tasmanians will not become more realistic about the
future until they can admit a full recognition of the colonial
genocide that destroyed an entire civilisation, not much more than
200 years ago.
Illicit Love is a history of love, sex, and marriage between
Indigenous peoples and settler citizens at the heart of two settler
colonial nations, the United States and Australia. Award-winning
historian Ann McGrath illuminates interracial relationships from
the late eighteenth to the early twentieth century through stories
of romance, courtship, and marriage between Indigenous peoples and
colonizers in times of nation formation. Illicit Love reveals how
marriage itself was used by disparate parties for both empowerment
and disempowerment and how it came to embody the contradictions of
imperialism. A tour de force of settler colonial history, McGrath's
study demonstrates vividly how interracial relationships between
Indigenous and colonizing peoples were more frequent and
threatening to nation-states in the Atlantic and the Pacific worlds
than historians have previously acknowledged.
The age of steam was the age of Britain's global maritime
dominance, the age of enormous ocean liners and human mastery over
the seas. The world seemed to shrink as timetabled shipping mapped
out faster, more efficient and more reliable transoceanic networks.
But what did this transport revolution look like at the other end
of the line, at the edge of empire in the South Pacific? Through
the historical example of the largest and most important regional
maritime enterprise - the Union Steam Ship Company of New Zealand -
Frances Steel eloquently charts the diverse and often conflicting
interests, itineraries and experiences of commercial and political
elites, common seamen and stewardesses, and Islander dock workers
and passengers. Drawing on a variety of sources, including shipping
company archives, imperial conference proceedings, diaries,
newspapers and photographs, this book will appeal to cultural
historians and geographers of British imperialism, scholars of
transport and mobility studies, and historians of New Zealand and
the Pacific. -- .
Australia is rarely considered to have been a part of the great
political changes that swept the world in the 1960s: the struggles
of the American civil rights movement, student revolts in Europe,
guerrilla struggles across the Third World and demands for women's
and gay liberation. This book tells the story of how Australian
activists from a diversity of movements read about, borrowed from,
physically encountered and critiqued overseas manifestations of
these rebellions, as well as locating the impact of radical
visitors to the nation. It situates Australian protest and reform
movements within a properly global - and particularly Asian -
context, where Australian protestors sought answers, utopias and
allies. Dramatically broadens our understanding of Australian
protest movements, this book presents them not only as
manifestations of local issues and causes but as fundamentally tied
to ideas, developments and personalities overseas, particularly to
socialist states and struggles in near neighbours like Vietnam,
Malaysia and China.'Jon Piccini is Research and Teaching Fellow at
The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia. His research
interests include the history of human rights and social histories
of international student migration.'
Discover the complexity of China's past with this multi-faceted
portrayal of the storied nation from a leading expert in the field
The newly revised Second Edition of A History of China delivers a
comprehensive treatment of the political, economic, social, and
cultural history of China that covers all major events and trends
that have shaped the country over the centuries. The book is
written in a clear and uncomplicated style, sure to be of
assistance to undergraduate students with little prior background
knowledge in the subject matter. The text examines Chinese history
through a global lens to better understand how foreign influences
affected domestic policies and practices. It includes discussions
of the roles played by non-Chinese ethnic groups in China, like the
Tibetans and Uyghurs, and the Mongol and Manchu rulers who held
power in China for several centuries. The distinguished author
takes pains to incorporate the perspectives and narratives of
people traditionally left out of Chinese history, including women,
peasants, merchants, and artisans. Readers will also enjoy the
inclusion of: A thorough introduction to early and ancient Chinese
history, including classical China, the first Chinese empires, and
religious and political responses to the period between 220 and 581
CE An exploration of the restoration of Empire under Sui and Tang,
as well as post-Tang society and Glorious Song A discussion of
China and the Mongol world, including Mongol rule in China and the
isolationism and involvement on the global stage of the Ming
dynasty A treatment of China in global history, including the Qing
era, the Republican period, and the Communist era Perfect for
undergraduate students of courses on Chinese history and Central
Asian History, the Second Edition of A History of China will also
earn a place in the libraries of students studying global history
and related classes in history departments and departments of Asian
studies. The Blackwell History of the World Series The goal of this
ambitious series is to provide an accessible source of knowledge
about the entire human past, for every curious person in every part
of the world. It will comprise some two dozen volumes, of which
some provide synoptic views of the history of particular regions
while others consider the world as a whole during a particular
period of time. The volumes are narrative in form, giving balanced
attention to social and cultural history (in the broadest sense) as
well as to institutional development and political change. Each
provides a systematic account of a very large subject, but they are
also both imaginative and interpretative. The Series is intended to
be accessible to the widest possible readership, and the
accessibility of its volumes is matched by the style of
presentation and production.
Keeping Family in an Age of Long Distance Trade, Imperial
Expansion, and Exile, 1550--1850 brings together eleven original
essays by an international group of scholars, each investigating
how family, or the idea of family, was maintained or reinvented
when husbands, wives, children, apprentices, servants or slaves
separated, or faced separation, from their household. The result is
a fresh and geographically wide-ranging discussion about the nature
of family and its intersection with travel over three hundred years
-- a period during which roles and relationships, within and
between households, were increasingly affected by trade,
settlement, and empire building. The imperial project may have
influenced different regions in different ways at different times
yet, as this collection reveals, families, especially those
transcending national ties and traditional boundaries, were central
to its progress. Together, these essays bring new understandings of
the foundations of our interconnected world and of the people who
contributed to it.
History, heritage, and colonialism explores the politics of
history-making and interest in preserving the material remnants of
the past in late-nineteenth and early-twentieth-century colonial
society, looking at both indigenous pasts and those of European
origin. Focusing on New Zealand, but also covering the Australian
and Canadian experiences, it explores how different groups and
political interests have sought to harness historical narrative in
support of competing visions of identity and memory. Considering
this within the frames of the local and national as well as of
empire, the book offers a valuable critique of the study of
colonial identity-making and cultures of colonisation. This book
offers important insights for societies negotiating the legacy of a
colonial past in a global present, and will be of particular value
to all those concerned with museum, heritage, and tourism studies,
as well as imperial history. -- .
Australian history is full of disasters and colossal debacles. Some
are natural but many more are man-made, results of individual or
collective stupidity, poor choices, short-sightedness or outright
greed. In ""Disasters that Changed Australia"", historian Richard
Evans nominates the disasters that have been instrumental in
creating the Australia we know today. From natural phenomenon such
as Cyclone Tracy, the great drought and the Ash Wednesday and Black
Friday fires, to key moments in our military history such as the
battle at Flanders in 1917 and the fall of Singapore, to the drug
wars and the Snowy Mountains scheme, ""Disasters that Changed
Australia"" is an essential guide to understanding the people, the
ideas and the events that defined the course of Australia's
history. It is also a call for Australia to re-examine its past,
look beneath the familiar comforting stories, and rethink how
Australians have responded to disaster.
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