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This collection of essays assesses the interrelationship between
exploration, empire-building and science in the opening up of the
Pacific Ocean by Europeans between the early 16th and mid-19th
century. It explores both the role of various sciences in enabling
European imperial projects in the region, and how the exploration
of the Pacific in turn shaped emergent scientific disciplines and
their claims to authority within Europe. Drawing on a range of
disciplines (from the history of science to geography, imperial
history to literary criticism), this volume examines the place of
science in cross-cultural encounters, the history of cartography in
Oceania, shifting understandings of race and cultural difference in
the Pacific, and the place of ships, books and instruments in the
culture of science. It reveals the exchanges and networks that
connected British, French, Spanish and Russian scientific
traditions, even in the midst of imperial competition, and the ways
in which findings in diverse fields, from cartography to zoology,
botany to anthropology, were disseminated and crafted into an
increasingly coherent image of the Pacific, its resources, peoples,
and histories. This is a significant body of scholarship that
offers many important insights for anthropologists and geographers,
as well as for historians of science and European imperialism.
As modern European empires expanded, written language was critical
to articulations of imperial authority and justifications of
conquest. For imperial administrators and thinkers, the
non-literacy of "native" societies demonstrated their primitiveness
and inability to change. Yet as the contributors to Indigenous
Textual Cultures make clear through cases from the Pacific Islands,
Australasia, North America, and Africa, indigenous communities were
highly adaptive and created novel, dynamic literary practices that
preserved indigenous knowledge traditions. The contributors
illustrate how modern literacy operated alongside orality rather
than replacing it. Reconstructing multiple traditions of indigenous
literacy and textual production, the contributors focus attention
on the often hidden, forgotten, neglected, and marginalized
cultural innovators who read, wrote, and used texts in endlessly
creative ways. This volume demonstrates how the work of these
innovators played pivotal roles in reimagining indigenous
epistemologies, challenging colonial domination, and envisioning
radical new futures. Contributors. Noelani Arista, Tony Ballantyne,
Alban Bensa, Keith Thor Carlson, Evelyn Ellerman, Isabel Hofmeyr,
Emma Hunter, Arini Loader, Adrian Muckle, Lachy Paterson, Laura
Rademaker, Michael P. J. Reilly, Bruno Saura, Ivy T. Schweitzer,
Angela Wanhalla
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enemies. He's the man to find out who has twisted London into this
strange new world, and he knows it. But in Dream London the city
changes a little every night and the people change a little every
day. The towers are growing taller, the parks have hidden
themselves away and the streets form themselves into strange new
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river, new criminals emerging in the East End and a path spiralling
down to another world. Everyone is changing, no one is who they
seem to be.
As modern European empires expanded, written language was critical
to articulations of imperial authority and justifications of
conquest. For imperial administrators and thinkers, the
non-literacy of "native" societies demonstrated their primitiveness
and inability to change. Yet as the contributors to Indigenous
Textual Cultures make clear through cases from the Pacific Islands,
Australasia, North America, and Africa, indigenous communities were
highly adaptive and created novel, dynamic literary practices that
preserved indigenous knowledge traditions. The contributors
illustrate how modern literacy operated alongside orality rather
than replacing it. Reconstructing multiple traditions of indigenous
literacy and textual production, the contributors focus attention
on the often hidden, forgotten, neglected, and marginalized
cultural innovators who read, wrote, and used texts in endlessly
creative ways. This volume demonstrates how the work of these
innovators played pivotal roles in reimagining indigenous
epistemologies, challenging colonial domination, and envisioning
radical new futures. Contributors. Noelani Arista, Tony Ballantyne,
Alban Bensa, Keith Thor Carlson, Evelyn Ellerman, Isabel Hofmeyr,
Emma Hunter, Arini Loader, Adrian Muckle, Lachy Paterson, Laura
Rademaker, Michael P. J. Reilly, Bruno Saura, Ivy T. Schweitzer,
Angela Wanhalla
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A World Connecting - 1870-1945 (Hardcover)
Emily S Rosenberg; Edited by (general) Akira Iriye, Jurgen Osterhammel; Contributions by Charles S Maier, Tony Ballantyne, …
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R1,218
Discovery Miles 12 180
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Ships in 12 - 17 working days
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Between 1870 and 1945, advances in communication and transportation
simultaneously expanded and shrank the world. New technologies
erased distance and accelerated the global exchange of people,
products, and ideas on an unprecedented scale. A World Connecting
focuses on an era when growing global interconnectedness inspired
new ambitions but also stoked anxieties and rivalries that would
erupt in two world wars-the most destructive conflicts in human
history. In five interpretive essays, distinguished historians
Emily S. Rosenberg, Charles S. Maier, Tony Ballantyne, Antoinette
Burton, Dirk Hoerder, Steven C. Topik, and Allen Wells illuminate
the tensions that emerged from intensifying interconnectedness and
attempts to control and shape the effects of sweeping change. Each
essay provides an overview of a particular theme: modern
state-building; imperial encounters; migration; commodity chains;
and transnational social and cultural networks. With the emergence
of modern statehood and the fluctuating fate of empires came
efforts to define and police territorial borders. As people,
products, capital, technologies, and affiliations flowed across
uneasily bounded spaces, the world both came together and fell
apart in unexpected, often horrifying, and sometimes liberating
ways. A World Connecting goes beyond nations, empires, and world
wars to capture the era's defining feature: the profound and
disruptive shift toward an ever more rapidly integrating world.
The first Protestant mission was established in New Zealand in
1814, initiating complex political, cultural, and economic
entanglements with Maori. Tony Ballantyne shows how interest in
missionary Christianity among influential Maori chiefs had
far-reaching consequences for both groups. Deftly reconstructing
cross-cultural translations and struggles over such concepts and
practices as civilization, work, time and space, and gender, he
identifies the physical body as the most contentious site of
cultural engagement, with Maori and missionaries struggling over
hygiene, tattooing, clothing, and sexual morality. "Entanglements
of Empire" is particularly concerned with how, as a result of their
encounters in the classroom, chapel, kitchen, and farmyard, Maori
and the English mutually influenced each other's worldviews.
Concluding in 1840 with New Zealand's formal colonization, this
book offers an important contribution to debates over religion and
empire.
History has traditionally privileged elites and their
accomplishments. World Histories from Below provides an antidote,
placing ‘ordinary’ people and subordinated subjects at the
heart of the themes it explores. Arguing that disruption and
dissent are overlooked agents of historical change, it takes a
global view of topics including political revolution, religious
conversion, labour struggles and body politics. This 2nd edition
includes two additional chapters on indigenous peoples, migration
and environmental histories from below. With an updated preface,
this enhanced text also includes additional images and case studies
to grapple with themes that have more recently come to the fore,
such as populism and the environment. Offering a study of these
themes from 1750 to the present day, World Histories from Below
refocuses our entire approach to teaching world history.
This book explores the emergence of 'Australasia' as a way of
thinking about the culture and geography of this region. Although
it is frequently understood to apply only to Australia and New
Zealand, the concept has a longer and more complicated history.
'Australasia' emerged in the mid-18th century in both French and
British writing as European empires extended their reach into Asia
and the Pacific, and initially held strong links to the Asian
continent. The book shows that interpretations and understandings
of 'Australasia' shifted away from Asia in light of British
imperial interests in the 19th century, and the concept was adapted
by varying political agendas and cultural visions in order to reach
into the Pacific or towards Antarctica. The Making and Remaking of
Australasia offers a number of rich case studies which highlight
how the idea itself was adapted and moulded by people and texts
both in the southern hemisphere and the imperial metropole where a
range of competing actors articulated divergent visions of this
part of the British Empire. An important contribution to the
cultural history of the British Empire, Australia, New Zealand and
Pacific Studies, this collection shows how 'Australasia' has had
multiple, often contrasting, meanings.
History has traditionally privileged elites and their
accomplishments. World Histories from Below provides an antidote,
placing ‘ordinary’ people and subordinated subjects at the
heart of the themes it explores. Arguing that disruption and
dissent are overlooked agents of historical change, it takes a
global view of topics including political revolution, religious
conversion, labour struggles and body politics. This 2nd edition
includes two additional chapters on indigenous peoples, migration
and environmental histories from below. With an updated preface,
this enhanced text also includes additional images and case studies
to grapple with themes that have more recently come to the fore,
such as populism and the environment. Offering a study of these
themes from 1750 to the present day, World Histories from Below
refocuses our entire approach to teaching world history.
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Midway (Paperback)
Tony Ballantyne
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R345
Discovery Miles 3 450
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Breaking open colonization to reveal tangled cultural and economic
networks, Webs of Empire offers new paths into colonial history.
Linking Gore and Chicago, Maori and Asia, India and newspapers,
whalers and writing, Ballantyne presents empire building as a
spreading web of connected places, people, ideas, and trade. These
links question narrow, national stories, while broadening
perspectives on the past and the legacies of colonialism that
persist today. Bringing together essays from two decades of
prolific publishing on international colonial history, Webs of
Empire establishes Tony Ballantyne as one of the leading historians
of the British Empire.
The first Protestant mission was established in New Zealand in
1814, initiating complex political, cultural, and economic
entanglements with Maori. Tony Ballantyne shows how interest in
missionary Christianity among influential Maori chiefs had
far-reaching consequences for both groups. Deftly reconstructing
cross-cultural translations and struggles over such concepts and
practices as civilization, work, time and space, and gender, he
identifies the physical body as the most contentious site of
cultural engagement, with Maori and missionaries struggling over
hygiene, tattooing, clothing, and sexual morality. "Entanglements
of Empire" is particularly concerned with how, as a result of their
encounters in the classroom, chapel, kitchen, and farmyard, Maori
and the English mutually influenced each other's worldviews.
Concluding in 1840 with New Zealand's formal colonization, this
book offers an important contribution to debates over religion and
empire.
Appointed Commander of the Emperor's Army of Sangrel, Wa-Ka-Mo-Do
of Ko tries to establish relations between the existing robot
population and the humans who have recently arrived on Yukawa. On
the continent of Shull, Kavan forms the Uncertain Army and is
marching to Artemis City. Upon discovery that the city's generals
have made an alliance with the humans, he retreats to Stark where
he plans the eventual overthrow of Artemis and the humans.
Meanwhile, Karel is heading South, hoping to be reunited with
Susan, his wife. As he walks, he hears more of the stories of the
robots, and begins to understand something about his place on the
world of Penrose. But with limited resources and tensions growing
between robot and human it's only a matter of time before problems
arise. And it's becoming more and more apparent that the humans are
a lot more powerful than the robots first expected . . .
"Moving Subjects" is the first of its kind to make a case not
simply for the necessity of a spatial analysis of imperial
formations, but for the indispensability of an investigative
approach that links space and movement with the domain of the
intimate. Through careful archival research and a commitment to
excavating the variety of "mobile intimacies" at the heart of
imperial power, its agents, and its interlocutors, contributors
offer new evidence and approaches for scholars engaged in capturing
the historical nuances of imperial domination.
Contributors are Tony Ballantyne, Antoinette Burton, Adrian
Carton, David Haines, Katherine Ellinghaus, Charlotte Macdonald,
Michael A. McDonnell, Kirsten McKenzie, Michelle Moran, Fiona
Paisley, Adele Perry, Dana Rabin, Christine M. Skwiot, Rachel
Standfield, Frances Steel, Elizabeth Vibert, and Kerry Wynn.
On a world of intelligent robots who seem to have forgotten their
own distant past, it is a time of war as the soldiers of Artemis
City set out to conquer everything within range on the continent of
Shull, killing or converting every robot they capture to their
philosophy, while viewing their own wire-based minds as nothing but
metal to be used or recycled for the cause. Elsewhere, the more
individualistic robots of Turing City believe they are something
more than metal, but when the Artemisian robot Kavan sets out on a
determined crusade to prove himself, even Turing City can't stand
against him. Increasingly tied up with Kavan's destiny is Karel, a
Turing robot with elements of Artemis's philosophy already woven
into his mind ... as well as Karel's wife Susan, and their recently
created child.. Following the inevitable violence and destruction,
Artemisian ambition focuses elsewhere and a journey begins towards
the frozen kingdoms of the north ... and towards the truth about
the legendary 'Book of Robots', a text which may finally explain
the real history of this strange world ... In a completely alien
but brilliantly realized landscape, here is a powerful story of
superb action, barbaric cruelty and intense emotional impact.
Empires and the Reach of the Global brings the history of empires
into sharp focus by showing how imperialism has been a shaping
force not just in international politics but in the economies and
cultures of today's world. Focusing on both the strengths and
limits of imperial power, Tony Ballantyne and Antoinette Burton
describe the creation and disintegration of the reigning world
order in the period from 1870 to 1945. Using the British, Japanese,
and Ottoman empires as case studies, the authors trace the
communication, transportation, and economic networks that were
instrumental to empire building. They highlight the role of empires
as place-making regimes that organize geographic space as distinct
territories. Militaries and missionaries, workplaces and
households, all served as key domains of interaction within these
territories, as colonial officials sought to manage the customs and
lifeways of indigenous populations. Imperial connections
contributed to the shrinking of time and space, but colonial
encroachments also provoked opposition, which often played out in
locations of everyday activity, from fields and factories to
schools and prisons. Colonized territories sponsored a variety of
forms of organized resistance, with full-fledged nationalist
movements erupting onto the global scene in the interwar period.
Ballantyne and Burton stress that empire was not something
fabricated in European capitals and implemented "out there."
Rather, imperial systems, with their many racial, gendered, and
economic forms, affected empires in all of their parts--the
metropole as well as the farthest outpost.
Bringing South Asian and British imperial history together with
recent scholarship on transnationalism and postcolonialism, Tony
Ballantyne offers a bold reevaluation of constructions of Sikh
identity from the late eighteenth century through the early
twenty-first. Ballantyne considers Sikh communities and experiences
in Punjab, the rest of South Asia, the United Kingdom, and other
parts of the world. He charts the shifting, complex, and frequently
competing visions of Sikh identity that have been produced in
response to the momentous social changes wrought by colonialism and
diaspora. In the process, he argues that Sikh studies must expand
its scope to take into account not only how Sikhism is figured in
religious and political texts but also on the battlefields of Asia
and Europe, in the streets of Singapore and Southall, and in the
nightclubs of New Delhi and Newcastle.Constructing an expansive
historical archive, Ballantyne draws on film, sculpture, fiction,
and Web sites, as well as private papers, government records,
journalism, and travel narratives. He proceeds from a critique of
recent historiography on the development of Sikhism to an analysis
of how Sikh identity changed over the course of the long nineteenth
century. Ballantyne goes on to offer a reading of the contested
interpretations of the life of Dalip Singh, the last Maharaja of
Punjab. He concludes with an exploration of bhangra, a traditional
form of Punjabi dance that diasporic artists have transformed into
a globally popular music style. Much of bhangra's recent evolution
stems from encounters of the Sikh and Afro-Caribbean communities,
particularly in the United Kingdom. Ballantyne contends that such
cross-cultural encounters are central in defining Sikh identity
both in Punjab and the diaspora.
How, when, and why has the Pacific been a locus for imagining
different futures by those living there as well as passing through?
What does that tell us about the distinctiveness or otherwise of
this "sea of islands"? Foregrounding the work of leading and
emerging scholars of Oceania, Pacific Futures brings together a
diverse set of approaches to, and examples of, how futures are
being conceived in the region and have been imagined in the
past.Individual chapters engage the various and sometimes contested
futures yearned for, unrealized, and even lost or forgotten, that
are particular to the Pacific as a region, ocean, island network,
destination, and home. Contributors recuperate the futures hoped
for and dreamed up by a vast array of islanders and outlanders -
from Indigenous federalists to Lutheran improvers to Cantonese
small business owners - making these histories of the future
visible. In so doing, the collection intervenes in debates about
globalization in the Pacific - and how the region is acted on by
outside forces - and postcolonial debates that emphasize the agency
and resistance of Pacific peoples in the context of centuries of
colonial endeavor. With a view to the effects of the "slow
violence" of climate change, the volume also challenges scholars to
think about the conditions of possibility for future-thinking at
all in the midst of a global crisis that promises cataclysmic
effects for the region. Pacific Futures highlights futures
conceived in the context of a modernity coproduced by diverse
Pacific peoples, taking resistance to categorization as a starting
point rather than a conclusion. With its hospitable approach to
thinking about history making and future thinking, one that is open
to a wide range of methodological, epistemological, and political
interests and commitments, the volume will encourage the writing of
new histories of the Pacific and new ways of talking about history
in this field, the region, and beyond.
From portrayals of African women's bodies in early modern European
travel accounts to the relation between celibacy and Indian
nationalism to the fate of the Korean "comfort women" forced into
prostitution by the occupying Japanese army during the Second World
War, the essays collected in Bodies in Contact demonstrate how a
focus on the body as a site of cultural encounter provides
essential insights into world history. Together these essays reveal
the "body as contact zone" as a powerful analytic rubric for
interpreting the mechanisms and legacies of colonialism and
illuminating how attention to gender alters understandings of world
history. Rather than privileging the operations of the Foreign
Office or gentlemanly capitalists, these historical studies render
the home, the street, the school, the club, and the marketplace
visible as sites of imperial ideologies. Bodies in Contact brings
together important scholarship on colonial gender studies gathered
from journals around the world. Breaking with approaches to world
history as the history of "the West and the rest," the contributors
offer a panoramic perspective. They examine aspects of imperial
regimes including the Ottoman, Mughal, Soviet, British, Han, and
Spanish, over a span of six hundred years-from the fifteenth
century through the mid-twentieth. Discussing subjects as diverse
as slavery and travel, ecclesiastical colonialism and military
occupation, marriage and property, nationalism and football,
immigration and temperance, Bodies in Contact puts women, gender,
and sexuality at the center of the "master narratives" of
imperialism and world history. Contributors. Joseph S. Alter, Tony
Ballantyne, Antoinette Burton, Elisa Camiscioli, Mary Ann Fay,
Carter Vaughn Findley, Heidi Gengenbach, Shoshana Keller, Hyun Sook
Kim, Mire Koikari, Siobhan Lambert-Hurley, Melani McAlister,
Patrick McDevitt, Jennifer L. Morgan, Lucy Eldersveld Murphy,
Rosalind O'Hanlon, Rebecca Overmyer-Velazquez, Fiona Paisley, Adele
Perry, Sean Quinlan, Mrinalini Sinha, Emma Jinhua Teng, Julia C.
Wells
This delightful account, first published in 1845, is a European
aristocrat's accurate and perceptive description of braving the
dangers and discomfort of travelling through the perilous regions
of Kashmir and the Punjab.
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