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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 …
Oceania Under Steam: Sea Transport And The Cultures Of Colonialism, C.1870-1914, Frances M. Steel
Oceania Under Steam: Sea Transport And The Cultures Of Colonialism, C.1870-1914, Frances M. Steel
Frances Steel
A building of particular note stands at the intersection of Dunedin's Water and Cumberland streets. Unlike other well-preserved examples of the city's rich architectural heritage, upgraded for new offices or converted into inner-city apartments, it is now largely unoccupied. Broken windows and grime-streaked paintwork speak of years of neglect. This building was constructed int he early 1880s, a time of unparalleled growth and prosperity in Dunedin as the city capitalised on the rush to Central Otago following the discovery of gold in 1861. The handsome solidity of the original structure embodies the certainty and progressive vision of the city's political …
Uncharted Waters? Cultures Of Sea Transport And Mobility In New Zealand Colonial History, Frances Steel
Uncharted Waters? Cultures Of Sea Transport And Mobility In New Zealand Colonial History, Frances Steel
Frances Steel
On a tour of Australia, New Zealand and Fiji in 1909, assistant undersecretary of state for the colonies Sir Charles Lucas ventured to suggest 'that in Australia the "bush" must necessarily have a greater effect on the future than in New Zealand, and that in New Zealand the sea will play a greater part in the call of the race than in Australia'. The 'back blocks', he remarked, 'have more especially fashioned Australian life and character'. Although brief and impressionistic, his assessment of the relationship between geography, identity and the course of history still resonates today. The bush is a …
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 …
Cruising New Zealand’S West Coast Sounds: Fiord Tourism In The Tasman World C.1870–1910, Frances Steel
Cruising New Zealand’S West Coast Sounds: Fiord Tourism In The Tasman World C.1870–1910, Frances Steel
Frances Steel
The hugely popular summer cruise tours of the West Coast Sounds in the South Island of New Zealand reveal a colonial history of leisured mobility and landscape appreciation common to New Zealand and Australia. Cruising the Sounds was a practice imbued with privilege, exclusivity, emotional upliftment and wonder, generating shared attachments to wilderness space. This culture of maritime tourism offers new insights into the mobile practices which shaped the Tasman World, and points to the centrality of ships and shipping routes as spaces of transcolonial history.
Maritime Mobilities In Pacific History: Towards A Scholarship Of Betweeness, Frances M. Steel
Maritime Mobilities In Pacific History: Towards A Scholarship Of Betweeness, Frances M. Steel
Frances Steel
In examining the significance of mobility in the long sweep of human history in the Pacific, the world's largest ocean where seventy per cent of the world's islands are to be found, one cannot but begin with the words of the late Tongan scholar, writer and visionary, Epeli Hau’ofa. In 1993 Hau’ofa proposed a new way of thinking about the region he called Oceania. He critiqued the limitations of an imposed regional imaginary, fostered by imperial rulers, western diplomats, academics, aid donors and the like, which emphasised the smallness, isolation and dependency of tiny islands in a far sea. Starting …
Via New Zealand Around The World: The Union Steam Ship Company And The Trans-Pacific Mail Lines, 1880s-1910s, Frances Steel
Via New Zealand Around The World: The Union Steam Ship Company And The Trans-Pacific Mail Lines, 1880s-1910s, Frances Steel
Frances Steel
The late-nineteenth-century brochure for the Australian and American Line (A & A Line) charts the trans-Pacific leg of the international mail route. The integrated passage by steamer and train cuts a solid red track across the globe, with the kangaroo, bald eagle and lion, the emblematic creatures of the main countries connected by this route, poised dramatically on the globe's top edge. In the bottom quarter a steamer is depicted in its oceanic element, with the thick black smoke billowing from its funnels commingling with the fiery plumes spewing forth from the Kilauea volcano in the Hawaiian Islands, and threatening …
Oceania Under Steam: Sea Transport And The Cultures Of Colonialism, C.1870-1914, Frances Steel
Oceania Under Steam: Sea Transport And The Cultures Of Colonialism, C.1870-1914, Frances Steel
Frances Steel
No abstract provided.
Suva Under Steam: Mobile Men And A Colonial Port Capital, 1880s–1910s, Frances Steel
Suva Under Steam: Mobile Men And A Colonial Port Capital, 1880s–1910s, Frances Steel
Frances Steel
No abstract provided.
Women, Men And The Southern Octopus: Shipboard Gender Relations In The Age Of Steam, Frances Steel
Women, Men And The Southern Octopus: Shipboard Gender Relations In The Age Of Steam, Frances Steel
Frances Steel
No abstract provided.
A Source Of Our Wealth, Yet Adverse To Our Health? Butter And The Diet-Heart Link In New Zealand To C. 1990, Frances Steel
A Source Of Our Wealth, Yet Adverse To Our Health? Butter And The Diet-Heart Link In New Zealand To C. 1990, Frances Steel
Frances Steel
No abstract provided.
"New Zealand Is Butterland”: Interpreting The Historical Significance Of A Daily Spread, Frances Steel
"New Zealand Is Butterland”: Interpreting The Historical Significance Of A Daily Spread, Frances Steel
Frances Steel
No abstract provided.