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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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