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The Great War profoundly affected both New Zealand and its Prime
Minister William Massey (1856-1925). Farmer Bill oversaw the
dispatch of a hundred thousand New Zealanders, including his own
sons, to Middle Eastern and European battlefields. In 1919 he led
the New Zealand delegation to the Paris Peace Conference, where it
was represented both in its own right and as part of the British
Empire. This symbolised its staunch loyalty to Empire and the fact
that it had its own particular interests. Massey was largely
satisfied with the Versailles Treaty, as New Zealand gained a
mandate over Western Samoa, Germany forfeited its other Pacific
colonies, and control over Nauru's valuable phosphate deposits was
shared between Britain, Australia and New Zealand, rather than
simply being given to Australia. He believed that the apparent
confirmation of British power improved New Zealand's security, and
had little faith in the League of Nations. However, the opposition
Labour Party came to believe the League could prevent a major war
and made that a cornerstone of their foreign policy in government
after 1935. Their belief that Versailles was unfair to Germany
partly influenced them to favour negotiations with Hitler even
after the outbreak of war in 1939.
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. -- .
Davida Malo's Mo'olelo Hawai'i is the single most important
description of pre-Christian Hawaiian culture. Malo, born in 1795,
twenty-five years before the coming of Christianity to Hawai'i,
wrote about everything from traditional cosmology and accounts of
ancestral chiefs to religion and government to traditional
amusements. The heart of this two-volume work is a new, critically
edited text of Malo's original Hawaiian, including the manuscript
known as the "Carter copy," handwritten by him and two helpers in
the decade before his death in 1853. Volume 1 provides images of
the original text, side by side with the new edited text. Volume 2
presents the edited Hawaiian text side by side with a new annotated
English translation. Malo's text has been edited at two levels.
First, the Hawaiian has been edited through a careful comparison of
all the extant manuscripts, attempting to restore Malo's original
text, with explanations of the editing choices given in the
footnotes. Second, the orthography of the Hawaiian text has been
modernized to help today's readers of Hawaiian by adding
diacritical marks ('okina and kahako, or glottal stop and macron,
respectively) and the punctuation has been revised to signal the
end of clauses and sentences. The new English translation attempts
to remain faithful to the edited Hawaiian text while avoiding
awkwardness in the English. Both volumes contain substantial
introductions. The introduction to Volume 1 (in Hawaiian) discusses
the manuscripts of Malo's text and their history. The introduction
to Volume 2 contains two essays that provide context to help the
reader understand Malo's Moolelo Hawaii. "Understanding Malo's
Moolelo Hawaii" describes the nature of Malo's work, showing that
it is the result of his dual Hawaiian and Western education. "The
Writing of the Moolelo Hawaii" discusses how the Carter copy was
written and preserved, its relationship to other versions of the
text, and Malo's plan for the work as a whole. The introduction is
followed by a new biography of Malo by Kanaka Maoli historian
Noelani Arista, "Davida Malo, a Hawaiian Life," describing his life
as a chiefly counselor and Hawaiian intellectual.
This narrative recounts the 18th and 19th century shipping out of
Pacific islanders aboard European and American vessels, a kind of
counter-exploring, that echoed the ancient voyages of settlement of
their island ancestors.
The question is as searing as it is fundamental to the continuing
debate over Japanese culpability in World War II and the period
leading up to it: "How could Japanese soldiers have committed such
acts of violence against Allied prisoners of war and Chinese
civilians?" During the First World War, the Japanese fought on the
side of the Allies and treated German POWs with respect and
civility. In the years that followed, under Emperor Hirohito,
conformity was the norm and the Japanese psyche became one of
selfless devotion to country and emperor; soon Japanese soldiers
were to engage in mass murder, rape, and even cannibalization of
their enemies. Horror in the East examines how this drastic change
came about. On the basis of never-before-published interviews with
both the victimizers and the victimized, and drawing on
never-before-revealed or long-ignored archival records, Rees
discloses the full horror of the war in the Pacific, probing the
supposed Japanese belief in their own racial superiority, analyzing
a military that believed suicide to be more honorable than
surrender, and providing what the Guardian calls "a powerful,
harrowing account of appalling inhumanity...impeccably researched."
Ever since the two ancient nations of India and China established
modern states in the mid-20th century, they have been locked in a
complex rivalry ranging across the South Asian region. Garver
offers a scrupulous examination of the two countries' actions and
policy decisions over the past fifty years. He has interviewed many
of the key figures who have shaped their diplomatic history and has
combed through the public and private statements made by officials,
as well as the extensive record of government documents and media
reports. He presents a thorough and compelling account of the
rivalry between these powerful neighbors and its influence on the
region and the larger world.
Despite upheavals in ownership over the past three decades, the
name Angus & Robertson remains to date the most recognised
book-retailing brand in Australia. However, it is little known that
through the incredible efforts of everyone involved in the
operations of its London agency, Angus & Robertson was, for a
time, also the most recognised Australian bookselling and book
publishing brand in the commonwealth.
This book documents a distinctive chapter in the history of
Australian book publishing as it addresses how the company dealt
with the tension between aspirational literary nationalism and the
requirements of turning a profit while attempting to get inside the
UK literary market. As well as detailing Angus & Robertson s
complete international relations, the book argues that the company
s international business was a much larger, more successful and
complicated business than has been acknowledged by previous
scholars. It questions the ways in which Angus & Robertson
replicated, challenged or transformed the often highly criticised
commercial practices of British publishers in order to develop an
export trade for Australian books in the United Kingdom.
Angus & Robertson and the British Trade in Australian
Books, 1930 1970 is the first of its kind; no other book in the
present literary market records a substantial history of Australia
s largest publisher and its role in the development of Australia s
export book trade. Although a unique piece, this volume also
complements existing studies on Angus & Robertson, Australian
literature and Australian publishing."
Company towns are often portrayed as powerless communities,
fundamentally dependent on the outside influence of global capital.
Neil White challenges this interpretation by exploring how these
communities were altered at the local level through human agency,
missteps, and chance. Far from being homogeneous, these company
towns are shown to be unique communities with equally unique
histories.Company Towns provides a multi-layered, international
comparison between the development of two settlements--the mining
community of Mount Isa, Queensland, Australia, and the mill town of
Corner Brook, Newfoundland, Canada. White pinpoints crucial
differences between the towns' experiences by contrasting each
region's histories from various perspectives--business, urban,
labour, civic, and socio-cultural. Company Towns also makes use of
a sizable collection of previously neglected oral history sources
and town records, providing an illuminating portrait of divergence
that defies efforts to impose structure on the company town
phenomenon.
Sir Robert Gordon Menzies was the founder of the Liberal Party of
Australia. As well as being Australia's longest-serving prime
minister, Menzies was the most thoughtful. Menzies' world picture
was one where Britishness was the overriding normative principle,
and in which cultural puritanism and philosophical idealism were
pervasive. Unless we remember this cultural background of Menzies'
thought then we will seriously misunderstand what he meant by the
very project of liberalism. The Forgotten Menzies argues that
Menzies' greatest aspiration was to protect the ideals of cultural
puritanismin Australia from two kinds of materialism: communism;
and the mindset encouraged by affluence and technological progress.
Central to Menzies' project of cultural and civilisational
preservation was the university, an institution he spent much of
his career extolling and expanding.The Forgotten Menzies makes an
important contribution to the history of political thought and
ideology in Australia, as to understanding the largely forgotten
but rich intellectual origins of the Liberal Party.
Between 1803 and 1853, some 80,000 convicts were transported to Van
Diemen's Land. Revising established models of the colonies, which
tend to depict convict women as a peculiarly oppressed group,
Gender, crime and empire argues that convict men and women in fact
shared much in common. Placing men and women, ideas about
masculinity, femininity, sexuality and the body, in comparative
perspective, this book argues that historians must take fuller
account of class to understand the relationships between gender and
power. The book explores the ways in which ideas about fatherhood
and household order initially informed the state's model of order,
and the reasons why this foundered. It considers the shifting
nature of state policies towards courtship, relationships and
attempts at family formation which subsequently became matters of
class conflict. It goes on to explore the ways in which ideas about
gender and family informed liberal and humanitarian critiques of
the colonies from the 1830s and 1840s and colonial demands for
abolition and self-government. -- .
Andrew Dilley offers a major new study of financial dependence,
examining the connections this dependence forged between the City
and political life in Edwardian Australia and Canada, mediated by
ideas of political economy. In doing so he reconstructs the
occasionally imperialistic politic of finance which pervaded the
British World at this time.
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