Displacing empire renegotiating British colonial Geographies
Publication details: Routledge New York 2017Description: xiii,208pISBN:- 9781138274686
- 909.09712 PRO
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Contents
List of Figures vii
List of Tables viii
List of Plates ix
List of Contributors x
Preface xii
Acknowledgements xiii
1.Introduction: Place, Network, and the Geographies of Empire Lindsay Proudfoot and Michael Roche 1
PART I: 'DIS-LOCATIONS'
2 Colonial Spaces and Sites of Resistance: Landed Estates in 19th Century Ireland 15
Paddy Duffy
3 The Unsettled Country: Landscape, History, and Memory in Australia's Wheatlands 41
Joy McCann
4 Place and Presbyterian Discourse in Colonial Australia 61
Lindsay Proudfoot
5 Irishness, Gender and Household Space in 'An Up-country Township' 81
Di Hall
6 Performing Power, Demonstrating Resistance: Interpreting Queen Victoria's Visit to Dublin in 1900
Yvonne Whelan 99
PART II: 'TRANSLOCATIONS'
7 Environment-identity Convergences in Australia, 1880-1950 117
J.M. Powell
8 Empire, Duty and Land: Soldier Settlement in New Zealand 1915-1924 135
Michael Roche
9 'Oriental Sore' or 'Public Nuisance': The Regulation of Prostitution in Colonial India, 1805-1889
M. Satish Kumar 155
10 Prostitution and the Place of Empire: Regulation and Repeal in Hong Kong and the British Imperial Network
Philip Howell 175
PART III: 'DISPLACEMENT'
11 Displacement
Lindsay Proudfoot and Michael Roche 201
Index 207
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