Frances Steel

Oceania Under Steam

Sea Transport and the Cultures of Colonialism, C. 1870-1914
Herausgeber: Thompson, Andrew; Mackenzie, John M

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Produktbeschreibung

Oceania under steam is a lively study of empire and the Pacific in the age of steam. It connects the intimate details of shipboard life with the high politics of imperial ocean space to present a wealth of new insights into the significance of shipping and the sea in the everyday life of colonialism.

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The age of steam was the age of Britain's global maritime dominance, the age of enormous ocean liners and human mastery over the seas. The world seemed to shrink as timetabled shipping mapped out faster, more efficient and more reliable transoceanic networks. But what did this transport revolution look like at the other end of the line, at the edge of empire in the South Pacific? Through the historical example of the largest and most important regional maritime enterprise - the Union Steam Ship Company of New Zealand - Frances Steel eloquently charts the diverse and often conflicting interests, itineraries and experiences of commercial and political elites, common seamen and stewardesses, and Islander dock workers and passengers. Drawing on a variety of sources, including shipping company archives, imperial conference proceedings, diaries, newspapers and photographs, this book will appeal to cultural historians and geographers of British imperialism, scholars of transport and mobility studies, and historians of New Zealand and the Pacific.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Manchester University Press
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. August 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 160mm x 30mm
• Gewicht: 567g
• ISBN-13: 9780719082900
• ISBN-10: 0719082900
• Artikelnr.: 33157515

Autorenporträt

Frances Steel is Lecturer in History at the University of Wollongong.

Inhaltsangabe

List of figures Acknowledgements List of abbreviations Maps Introduction
Part I Afloat 1. Steam's 'magic touch': routes, rivalries and regionalism
in the Pacific 2. A ship of the line: cultures of maritime technology Part
II Aboard 3. Crew culture: maritime men in an iron world 4. Labour, race
and empire: debating the 'lascar question' 5. Guardians and troublemakers:
confining women at sea Part III Abroad 6. The tropical challenges of the
island trades 7. Sitima days in Suva: wharf labourers and the colonial port
8. Indigenous maritime mobilities under colonial rule Conclusion Index