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Book SynopsisTrade ReviewWebs 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
Table of ContentsPreface: 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
