Britain, China, and Colonial Australia

Zusatztext Excellent book Informationen zum Autor Benjamin Mountford is a Senior Lecturer in History at the Australian Catholic University in Melbourne. From 2008 to 2015, Ben was at Oxford, where he was a Rae and Edith Bennett Travelling Scholar, a Beit Scholar in Commonwealth and Imperial History, a Research Associate at the Oxford Centre for Global History, and the first Michael Brock Junior Research Fellow in Modern British History. He is a co-founder and convener of the Oxford Transnational and Global History Research Seminar. Ben's research and teaching centres on Australian, British, global, and imperial history; museology; public history; and heritage. Klappentext Reaching back to the arrival of the British in the 1780s, Britain, China, and Colonial Australia explores the early history of Australian engagement with China and traces the development of colonial Australia into an important point of contact between the British and Chinese Empires. Zusammenfassung Reaching back to the arrival of the British in the 1780s, Britain, China, and Colonial Australia explores the early history of Australian engagement with China and traces the development of colonial Australia into an important point of contact between the British and Chinese Empires. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction PART I: Britain, China, and the Australian Colonies, 1788-1888 1: Sometimes as a Half-Way House to China 2: Two Enormous Overflowing Reservoirs: Gold, Migration, and the Chinese Question in Australia PART II: The Afghan Crisis of 1888 3: British Policymaking and the Chinese Migration Question 4: Serve Yourself If You'd Be Well Served: The Afghan Affair as Imperial Crisis 5: The Official Mind and the Search for a Solution PART III: New Imperialisms 6: Australia and the Problems of the Far East 7: The Time for Small Kingdoms Has Passed Away: Australia, China, and the Imperial Future Conclusion: Chinese Questions Bibliography ...

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• Authors: Benjamin Mountford, Benjamin (Research Fellow and Lecturer Mountford, Benjamin (Senior Lecturer in History Mountford, Mountford Benjamin
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 10.11.2016
• EAN: 9780198790549
• ISBN: 978-0-19-879054-9
• No. of pages: 320
• Series: Oxford Historical Monographs; Oxford Historical Monographs
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; China, Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Colonialism & Post-Colonialism, POLITICAL SCIENCE / International Relations / General, HISTORY / World, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / Asian, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / European, International Relations, c 1800 to c 1900, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, General & world history, Colonialism & imperialism, 18th century, c 1700 to c 1799, United Kingdom, Great Britain, Colonialism and imperialism, General and world history, C 1700 To C 1800