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Colonial Formations
Jane Carey, Frances Steel
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R1,287
Discovery Miles 12 870
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Colonial Formations highlights the critical importance of colonial
dynamics at the so-called peripheries of the British Empire. With a
focus on the Australasian settler colonies, the Pacific, India, and
China, it examines colonised peoples’ subjectivities, mobilities
and networks, through accounts of labour, law, education and
activism. Decentring the British metropole, while shedding light on
its enduring power, contributors chart the vast array of mobilities
and connections that shaped these dynamics. They illuminate
contexts and experiences of labour, education, touring, courtrooms
and anticolonial struggles. Many attend to questions of colonial
belonging and its limits – within cultures of sociability – or
citizenship and its attendant benefits and rights. The chapters
show how colonised peoples, both Indigenous and ‘coloured’
migrants, critiqued and mobilised to challenge imposed strictures
on their life possibilities, whether in individual colonies, in
cross-colonial networks or across the imperial arena. In doing so,
this collection offers new insights into the interplay of place,
mobility and power, and on the critical importance of colonial
formations. The chapters in this book were originally published as
a special issue of the journal History Australia.
Colonial Formations highlights the critical importance of colonial
dynamics at the so-called peripheries of the British Empire. With a
focus on the Australasian settler colonies, the Pacific, India, and
China, it examines colonised peoples' subjectivities, mobilities
and networks, through accounts of labour, law, education and
activism. Decentring the British metropole, while shedding light on
its enduring power, contributors chart the vast array of mobilities
and connections that shaped these dynamics. They illuminate
contexts and experiences of labour, education, touring, courtrooms
and anticolonial struggles. Many attend to questions of colonial
belonging and its limits - within cultures of sociability - or
citizenship and its attendant benefits and rights. The chapters
show how colonised peoples, both Indigenous and 'coloured'
migrants, critiqued and mobilised to challenge imposed strictures
on their life possibilities, whether in individual colonies, in
cross-colonial networks or across the imperial arena. In doing so,
this collection offers new insights into the interplay of place,
mobility and power, and on the critical importance of colonial
formations. The chapters in this book were originally published as
a special issue of the journal History Australia.
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. -- .
Examining the role of Asian and indigenous male servants across the
Asia Pacific from the late-19th century to the 1930s, this study
shows how their ubiquitous presence in these purportedly 'humble'
jobs gave them a degree of cultural influence that has been largely
overlooked in the literature on labour mobility in the age of
empire. With case studies from British Hong Kong, Singapore,
Northern Australia, Fiji and British Columbia, French Indochina,
the American Philippines and the Dutch East Indies, the book delves
into the intimate and often conflicted relationships between
European and American colonists and their servants. It explores the
lives of 'houseboys', cooks and gardeners in the colonial home,
considers the bell-boys and waiters in the grand colonial hotels,
and follows the stewards and cabin-boys on steamships travelling
across the Indian and Pacific Oceans. This broad conception of
service allows Colonialism and Male Domestic Service to illuminate
trans-colonial or cross-border influences through the mobility of
servants and their employers. This path-breaking study is an
important book for students and scholars of colonialism, labour
history and the Asia Pacific region.
Examining the role of Asian and indigenous male servants across the
Asia Pacific from the late-19th century to the 1930s, this study
shows how their ubiquitous presence in these purportedly 'humble'
jobs gave them a degree of cultural influence that has been largely
overlooked in the literature on labour mobility in the age of
empire. With case studies from British Hong Kong, Singapore,
Northern Australia, Fiji and British Columbia, French Indochina,
the American Philippines and the Dutch East Indies, the book delves
into the intimate and often conflicted relationships between
European and American colonists and their servants. It explores the
lives of 'houseboys', cooks and gardeners in the colonial home,
considers the bell-boys and waiters in the grand colonial hotels,
and follows the stewards and cabin-boys on steamships travelling
across the Indian and Pacific Oceans. This broad conception of
service allows Colonialism and Male Domestic Service to illuminate
trans-colonial or cross-border influences through the mobility of
servants and their employers. This path-breaking study is an
important book for students and scholars of colonialism, labour
history and the Asia Pacific region.
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