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Lines Across The Sea: Trans-Pacific Passenger Shipping In The Age Of Steam, Frances Steel
Lines Across The Sea: Trans-Pacific Passenger Shipping In The Age Of Steam, Frances Steel
Frances Steel
Empires were shaped by interactions across borders. The movement and exhange of people and goods have always been central to historical work on empire, but it is only in recent years that explicit discussion of imperial networks across terrestrial and oceanic space has come to the forefront of history writing. This is explained in part by a growing interest in the relationship between imperial spatial forms and the historical roots of globalistion. The main focus of analysis has tended to lie with the places connected and shaped by multiple and overlapping trajectories. There is scope to extend our understanding of …
An Ocean Of Leisure: Early Cruise Tours Of The Pacific In An Age Of Empire, Frances Steel
An Ocean Of Leisure: Early Cruise Tours Of The Pacific In An Age Of Empire, Frances Steel
Frances Steel
In the late nineteenth century, the Union Steam Ship Company of New Zealand (USSCo.) offered a series of cruise tours from the ports of Sydney and Auckland through the islands of the South Pacific. The cruises complemented excursions to the Mediterranean, the "old country" and other "worn lines of pleasure," remarked the Sydney Morning Herald in 1898. They even offered a novel contrast to "doing Japan." Australian settlers had largely ignored their island neighbours, the newspaper continued, yet the cruise program indicated the range of "splendid holiday resorts" that lay on their doorstep. Although regular trading steamers made the Pacific …