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This edited collection investigates New Zealand’s history as an
imperial power, and its evolving place within the British Empire.
It revises and expands the history of empire within, to and from
New Zealand by looking at the country’s spheres of internal
imperialism, its relationship with Australia, its Pacific empire
and its outreach to Antarctica. The book critically revises our
understanding of the range of ways that New Zealand has played a
role as an imperial power, including the cultural histories of New
Zealand inside the British Empire, engagements with imperial
practices and notions of imperialism, the special significance of
New Zealand in the Pacific region, and the circulation of ideas of
empire both through and inside New Zealand over time. The essays in
this volume span social, cultural, political and economic history,
and in testing the concept of New Zealand's empire, the
contributors take new directions in both historiographical and
empirical research. -- .
Through a study of the British Empire's largest women's patriotic
organisation, formed in 1900, and still in existence, this book
examines the relationship between female imperialism and national
identity. It throws new light on women's involvement in
imperialism; on the history of 'conservative' women's
organisations; on women's interventions in debates concerning
citizenship and national identity; and on the history of women in
white settler societies. After placing the IODE (Imperial Order
Daughters of the Empire) in the context of recent scholarly work in
Canadian, gender, imperial history and post-colonial theory, the
book follows the IODE's history through the twentieth century.
Chapters focus upon the IODE's attempts to create a British Canada
through its maternal feminist work in education, health, welfare
and citizenship. In addition it reflects on the IODE's responses to
threats to Anglo-Canadian hegemony posed by immigration, World Wars
and Communism, and examines the complex relationship between
imperial loyalty and settler nationalism. Tracing the organisation
into the postcolonial era, where previous imperial ideas are
outmoded, it considers the transformation from patriotism to
charity, and the turn to colonisation at home in the Canadian
North.
Develops the tradition of heroization in women's history and
challenges and develops from it using historical examples in an
archetype framework - this is something students will find engaging
Women's history is a strong topic at most universities and this is
an interesting take on it that should interest students. Most of
the competition is hagiographic or biographical - this takes a
different, thematic and engaging approach
Develops the tradition of heroization in women's history and
challenges and develops from it using historical examples in an
archetype framework - this is something students will find engaging
Women's history is a strong topic at most universities and this is
an interesting take on it that should interest students. Most of
the competition is hagiographic or biographical - this takes a
different, thematic and engaging approach
This edited collection investigates New Zealand's history as an
imperial power, and its evolving place within the British Empire.
It revises and expands the history of empire within, to and from
New Zealand by looking at the country's spheres of internal
imperialism, its relationship with Australia, its Pacific empire
and its outreach to Antarctica. The book critically revises our
understanding of the range of ways that New Zealand has played a
role as an imperial power, including the cultural histories of New
Zealand inside the British Empire, engagements with imperial
practices and notions of imperialism, the special significance of
New Zealand in the Pacific region, and the circulation of ideas of
empire both through and inside New Zealand over time. The essays in
this volume span social, cultural, political and economic history,
and in testing the concept of New Zealand's empire, the
contributors take new directions in both historiographical and
empirical research. -- .
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