Making and Remaking of Australasia: Mobility, Texts and Southern Circulations`, Tony Ballantyne
: Tony Ballantyne : The Making and Remaking of Australasia: Mobility, Texts and Southern Circulations` ISBN: 1350264164 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781350264168 : Bloomsbury Academic : : 89760.00 T : . : 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.
: Catharine Coleborne : Vagrant Lives in Colonial Australasia: Regulating Mobility, 1840-1910 ISBN: 1350252697 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781350252691 : Bloomsbury Academic : : 89760.00 T : . : Investigating the history of vagrants in colonial Australia and New Zealand, this book provides insights into the histories and identities of marginalised peoples in the British Pacific Empire. Showing how their experiences were produced, shaped and transformed through laws and institutions, it reveals how the most vulnerable people in colonial society were regulated, marginalised and criminalised in the imperial world. Studying the language of vagrancy prosecution, narratives of mobility and welfare, vagrant families, gender and mobility and the political, social and cultural interpretations of vagrancy, this book sets out a conceptual framework of mobility as a field of inquiry for legal and historical studies. Defining mobility as population movement and the occupation of new social and physical space, it offers an entry point to the related histories of penal colonies and new settler societies. It provides insights into shared histories of vagrancy across New South Wales, Victoria, Tasmania and New Zealand, and explores how different jurisdictions regulated mobility within the temporal and geographical space of the British Pacific Empire.
This volume provides a unique and critical perspective on how Chinese, Japanese and Korean scholars engage and critique the West in their historical thinking. It showcases the dialogue between Asian experts and their Euro-American counterparts and offers valuable insights on how to challenge and overcome Eurocentrism in historical writing.
: Robbie Shilliam : The Black Pacific: Anti-Colonial Struggles and Oceanic Connections ISBN: 147251923X ISBN-13(EAN): 9781472519238 : Bloomsbury Academic : : 100320.00 T : . : Why have the struggles of the African Diaspora so resonated with South Pacific people? How have Maori, Pasifika and Pakeha activists incorporated the ideologies of the African diaspora into their struggle against colonial rule and racism, and their pursuit of social justice? This book challenges predominant understandings of the historical linkages that make up the (post-)colonial world. The author goes beyond both the domination of the Atlantic viewpoint, and the correctives now being offered by South Pacific and Indian Ocean studies, to look at how the Atlantic ecumene is refracted in and has influenced the Pacific ecumene. The book is empirically rich, using extensive interviews, participation and archival work and focusing on the politics of Black Power and the Rastafari faith. It is also theoretically sophisticated, offering an innovative hermeneutical critique of post-colonial and subaltern studies. The Black Pacific is essential reading for students and scholars of Politics, International Relations, History and Anthropology interested in anti-colonial struggles, anti-racism and the quests for equality, justice, freedom and self-determination.
: Robbie Shilliam : The Black Pacific: Anti-Colonial Struggles and Oceanic Connections ISBN: 1472535545 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781472535542 : Bloomsbury Academic : : 28500.00 T : . : Why have the struggles of the African Diaspora so resonated with South Pacific people? How have Maori, Pasifika and Pakeha activists incorporated the ideologies of the African diaspora into their struggle against colonial rule and racism, and their pursuit of social justice? This book challenges predominant understandings of the historical linkages that make up the (post-)colonial world. The author goes beyond both the domination of the Atlantic viewpoint, and the correctives now being offered by South Pacific and Indian Ocean studies, to look at how the Atlantic ecumene is refracted in and has influenced the Pacific ecumene. The book is empirically rich, using extensive interviews, participation and archival work and focusing on the politics of Black Power and the Rastafari faith. It is also theoretically sophisticated, offering an innovative hermeneutical critique of post-colonial and subaltern studies. The Black Pacific is essential reading for students and scholars of Politics, International Relations, History and Anthropology interested in anti-colonial struggles, anti-racism and the quests for equality, justice, freedom and self-determination.
: Eugenia Pacitti : Body Collected in Australia: A History of Human Specimens and the Circulation of Biomedical Knowledge ISBN: 1350373729 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781350373723 : Bloomsbury Academic : : 89760.00 T : . : Offering an insight into 19th- and early 20th-century medical school dissecting rooms and anatomy museums, this book explores how collected human remains have shaped western biomedical knowledge and attitudes towards the body over the past 200 years. Focusing on specimens collected in Australia, Pacitti asks how and why anatomists and medical students obtained human body parts, and explores the role Australia played in the global narrative of western medical development. Interrogating the relationship between colony and metropole in the circulation of knowledge, it shows how Australia formed a distinct identity as a nation; wanting to conform to established norms in Britain and overseas, but simultaneously pushing against them. Pacitti sheds new light on our understanding of western medical networks, fresh insights into the ongoing challenges historic specimen collections pose, and reveals how these collections remain active pedagogical tools in the present day. The Body Collected in Colonial Australia is a cultural history of collectors and the collected that deepens our understanding of the ways the living have used the dead to comprehend the intricacies of the human body in illness and health.
: Giles Paul : Antepodean America: Australasia and the Constitution of U.S. Literature ISBN: 0190623993 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780190623999 : Oxford Academ : : 61140.00 T : . : A sweeping study that spans two continents and over three hundred years of literary history, Antipodean America identifies the surprising affinities between Australian and American literature.
: J. Beattie : Empire and Environmental Anxiety ISBN: 1349363014 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781349363018 : Springer : : 39180.00 T : . : A new interpretation of imperialism and environmental change, and the anxieties imperialism generated through environmental transformation and interaction with unknown landscapes. Tying together South Asia and Australasia, this book demonstrates how environmental anxieties led to increasing state resource management, conservation, and urban reform.
: Nielsen E. : Sport and the British World, 1900-1930: Amateurism and National Identity in Australasia and Beyond ISBN: 1349485381 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781349485383 : Springer : : 46570.00 T : . : This book provides a lively study of the role that Australians and New Zealanders played in defining the British sporting concept of amateurism. In doing so, they contributed to understandings of wider British identity across the sporting world.
: Coghlan : The Progress of Australasia in the Nineteenth Century ISBN: 1108030726 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781108030724 : Cambridge Academ : : 39070.00 T : . : Coghlan was the statistician for New South Wales from 1886, and is regarded as Australia`s first `Mandarin`. First published in 1903, and benefiting greatly from the author`s extensive hard statistical data, this was one of the first comprehensive histories of Australia, charting her development from penal colony to urbanised democracy.
: Nielsen : Sport and the British World, 1900-1930 ISBN: 1137398507 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781137398505 : Springer : : 83850.00 T : . : This book provides a lively study of the role that Australians and New Zealanders played in defining the British sporting concept of amateurism. In doing so, they contributed to understandings of wider British identity across the sporting world.
: Breward, Ian : History of the churches in australasia ISBN: 0199275920 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780199275922 : Oxford Academ : : 93990.00 T : . : This is the first comprehensive history of the Christian Churches in Australia, New Zealand, and the Pacific Islands. It illustrates the ways in which European forms of Christianity have been adapted to new contexts, and pays particular attention to the distinctive features of Melanesian and Polynesian Churches.
