{"product_id":"new-zealands-empire-131-studies-in-imperialism-9780719091537","title":"New Zealands empire 131 Studies in Imperialism","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBoth 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e'At the edge of empire, at \"home\" with the British or somewhere in the Pacific? Pickles and Coleborne take up the puzzle of \u003ci\u003eNew Zealand's Empire\u003c\/i\u003e with freshness and surprise. Both the questions and answers are new, rewarding readers with an insightful and original excursion.'\u003cbr\u003eCharlotte Macdonald, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e‘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.’ \u003cbr\u003eVincent O'Malley, H-Empire July 2016\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e‘Scholars who have been following the historiography of British settler colonialism overthe past few decades can testify to the significant contributions made by historians of New Zealand to thisbody of work. New Zealand’s Empire,though, takes that work in a new and intriguing direction, as it asks questionsabout multiple forms of empire in New Zealand’s history.’\u003cbr\u003eCecilia Morgan, University of Toronto, Australian HistoricalStudies, 48, 2017\u003c\/p\u003e -- .\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction: New Zealand’s Empire – Katie Pickles and Catharine Coleborne\u003cbr\u003ePart I: ‘Empire at home’\u003cbr\u003e1. Te Karere Maori and the defence of Empire, 1855–60 – Kenton Storey\u003cbr\u003e2. An imperial icon Indigenised: the Queen Victoria Memorial at Ohinemutu – Mark Stocker\u003cbr\u003e3. ‘Two branches of the brown Polynesians’: ethnographic fieldwork, colonial governmentality and the ‘dance of agency’ – Conal McCarthy\u003cbr\u003ePart II: Imperial mobility\u003cbr\u003e4. Travelling the Tasman world: travel writing and narratives of transit – Anna Johnston\u003cbr\u003e5. Law’s mobility: vagrancy and imperial legality in the trans-Tasman colonial world, 1860s–1914 – Catharine Coleborne\u003cbr\u003e6. ‘The World’s Fernery’: New Zealand, fern albums, and nineteenth-century fern fever – Molly Duggins\u003cbr\u003ePart III: New Zealand’s Pacific Empire\u003cbr\u003e7. From Sudan to Samoa: imperial legacies and cultures in New Zealand’s rule over the Mandated Territory of Western Samoa – Patricia O’Brien \u003cbr\u003e8. ‘Fiji is really the Honolulu of the Dominion’: tourism, empire and New Zealand’s Pacific, c.1900–35 – Frances Steel\u003cbr\u003e9. Empire in the eyes of the beholder: New Zealand in the Pacific through French eyes – Adrian Muckle  1900–55 \u003cbr\u003e10. War surplus? New Zealand and American children of Indigenous women in Samoa, the Cook Islands, and Tokelau – Judith A. Bennett\u003cbr\u003ePart IV Inside and outside Empire\u003cbr\u003e11. Official occasions and vernacular voices: New Zealand’s British Empire and Commonwealth Games, 1950–90 – Michael Dawson\u003cbr\u003e12. Australia as New Zealand’s western frontier, 1965–95 – Rosemary Baird and Philippa Mein Smith\u003cbr\u003e13. Southern outreach: New Zealand claims Antarctica from the ‘heroic era’ to the twenty-first century – Katie Pickles\u003cbr\u003e14. A radical reinterpretation of New Zealand history: apology, remorse and reconciliation – Giselle Byrnes\u003cbr\u003eGlossary\u003cbr\u003eIndex\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Manchester University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48884290879831,"sku":"9780719091537","price":81.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/new-zealands-empire-131-studies-in-imperialism-9780719091537","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}