New Zealand's empire

by Coleborne, Catharine Pickles, Katie

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Title Statements

Full title :New Zealand's empire / edited by Katie Pickles and Catharine Coleborne.

Summary

Both colonial and postcolonial historical approaches often sideline New Zealand as a peripheral player. This book redresses the balance, and evaluates its role as an imperial power - as both a powerful imperial envoy and a significant presence in the Pacific region.

"The book rewards its readers with a series of original, varied, and sometimes intriguing essays into particular dimensions ... the editors succeed in their stated aim of opening up discussion as to how New Zealand's own empire might be conceived."

This edited collection investigates New Zealand's history as an imperial power, and its evolving place within the British Empire. It revises and expands the history of empire within, to and from New Zealand by looking at the country's spheres of internal imperialism, its relationship with Australia, its Pacific empire and its outreach to Antarctica. The book critically revises our understanding of the range of ways that New Zealand has played a role as an imperial power, including the cultural histories of New Zealand inside the British Empire, engagements with imperial practices and notions of imperialism, the special significance of New Zealand in the Pacific region, and the circulation of ideas of empire both through and inside New Zealand over time. The essays in this volume span social, cultural, political and economic history, and in testing the concept of New Zealand's empire, the contributors take new directions in both historiographical and empirical research.

Edition Statements

Publication Date:©2015
Edition:MSI edition

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Manchester University Press
Place of Publication:Manchester, UK
Language:eng
Publication Date:©2015

The Physical Object

Description:1 online resource (288 pages) : : illustrations (black and white), graphs; digital, PDF file(s)

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9781526104120, 1526104121, 9781784996239, 1784996238, 9781784996857, 1784996858
oclc:on1139832955
LC Classification:DU420
Dewey Decimal:327.93

Introduction: New Zealand's Empire / Katie Pickles and Catharine Coleborne -- Part I: 'Empire at home' -- 1. Te Karere Maori and the defence of Empire, 1855-60 / Kenton Storey -- 2. An imperial icon Indigenised: the Queen Victoria Memorial at Ohinemutu / Mark Stocker -- 3. 'Two branches of the brown Polynesians': ethnographic fieldwork, colonial governmentality and the 'dance of agency' / Conal McCarthy -- Part II: Imperial mobility -- 4. Travelling the Tasman world: travel writing and narratives of transit / Anna Johnston -- 5. Law's mobility: vagrancy and imperial legality in the trans-Tasman colonial world, 1860s-1914 / Catharine Coleborne -- 6. 'The World's Fernery': New Zealand, fern albums, and nineteenth-century fern fever / Molly Duggins -- Part III: New Zealand's Pacific Empire -- 7. From Sudan to Samoa: imperial legacies and cultures in New Zealand's rule over the Mandated Territory of Western Samoa / Patricia O'Brien -- 8. 'Fiji is really the Honolulu of the Dominion': tourism, empire and New Zealand's Pacific, c.1900-35 / Frances Steel -- 9. Empire in the eyes of the beholder: New Zealand in the Pacific through French eyes / Adrian Muckle -- 1900-55 -- 10. War surplus?…

Subjects

Australasia -- Australasian & Pacific h… Australasian & Pacific history Colonialism & imperialism Diplomatic relations History HISTORY -- Australia & New Zealand Imperialism Imperialism -- History Impérialisme -- Histoire New Zealand New Zealand -- Foreign relations New Zealand -- History New Zealand -- Politics and government Nouvelle-Zélande -- Histoire Nouvelle-Zélande -- Politique et gouver… Nouvelle-Zélande -- Relations extérieur… Politics and government