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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 …
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 …