Webs of Empire
376 pages, 6 x 9
Paperback
Release Date:31 Jan 2015
ISBN:9780774827690
Hardcover
Release Date:10 Apr 2014
ISBN:9780774828161
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Release Date:01 Apr 2014
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Webs of Empire

Locating New Zealand's Colonial Past

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Breaking open colonization to reveal tangled cultural and economic networks, Webs of Empire offers new paths into colonial history. Linking Gore and Chicago, Maori and Asia, India and newspapers, whalers and writing, Ballantyne presents empire building as a spreading web of connected places, people, ideas, and trade. These links question narrow, national stories, while broadening perspectives on the past and the legacies of colonialism that persist today. Bringing together essays from two decades of prolific publishing on international colonial history, Webs of Empire establishes Tony Ballantyne as one of the leading historians of the British Empire.

Webs of Empire demonstrates Tony Ballantyne’s archival richness and mastery of his profession, provoking new interpretations of history and historians. This is compelling and essential reading. Lydia Wevers is a professor and director of the Stout Research Centre at the Victoria University of Wellington
Attentive to the arguments of post-colonial theory, demonstrating a strong historiographic sensibility, and firmly grounded in New Zealand and other archives, this timely book offers a thoughtful challenge to the primacy of national history. Stressing the lumpiness of the past, Ballantyne sees places as knot-like conjunctures produced by the convergence of imperial networks with local webs of interdependence mediated by institutions operating at various scales. These diverse essays offer insight and pleasure to anyone interested in the colonial past. Graeme Wynn, FRSC, is a professor of geography at the University of British Columbia
Tony Ballantyne is a professor of history, head of the Department of History and Art History, and director of the Centre for Research on Colonial Culture at the University of Otago in New Zealand.

Preface: Connections, Comparisons and Commonalities

Note on Language and Usage

Introduction: Relocating Colonial Histories

Reframing Colonialism

1 Race and the Webs of Empire

Connections

2 Writing Out Asia

3 Teaching Maori About Asia

4 India in New Zealand

5 Te Anu's Story

Empire

6 Sealers, Whalers and the Entanglements of Empire

7 Christianity, Colonialism and Cross-Cultural Communication

8 War, Knowledge and the Crisis of Empire

Writing

9 Archives, Empires and Histories of Colonialism

10 Mr. Peal's Archive

11 Paper, Pen and Print

12 Writing and the Culture of Colonisation

Place

13 Thinking Local

14 On Place, Space and Mobility

Conclusion: Writing the Colonial Past

Editorial Note

Endnotes

Index

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