Oceania Under Steam - Sea Transport and the Cultures of Colonialism, C. 18701914

Informationen zum Autor Frances Steel is Lecturer in History at the University of Wollongong Klappentext Oceania under steam is a lively study of empire and the Pacific in the age of steam. It connects the intimate details of shipboard life with the high politics of imperial ocean space to present a wealth of new insights into the significance of shipping and the sea in the everyday life of colonialism. Zusammenfassung Oceania under steam is a lively study of empire and the Pacific in the age of steam. It connects the intimate details of shipboard life with the high politics of imperial ocean space to present a wealth of new insights into the significance of shipping and the sea in the everyday life of colonialism. -- . Inhaltsverzeichnis IntroductionPart I: Afloat1. Steam's 'magic touch': routes, rivalries and regionalism in the Pacific2. A ship of the line: cultures of maritime technologyPart II: Aboard3. Crew culture: maritime men in an iron world4. Labour, race and empire: debating the 'lascar question'5. Guardians and troublemakers: confining women at seaPart III: Abroad6. The tropical challenges of the island trades7. Sitima days in Suva: wharf labourers and the colonial port8. Indigenous maritime mobilities under colonial ruleConclusionIndex

Product details

• Authors: Frances Steel, Steel Frances
• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.09.2016
• EAN: 9781526106568
• ISBN: 978-1-5261-0656-8
• No. of pages: 272
• Series: Studies in Imperialism; Studies in Imperialism
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; European History, ART / History / Modern (late 19th Century to 1945), HISTORY / Oceania, TRANSPORTATION / Ships & Shipbuilding / History, Colonialism & imperialism, History of Art, Modernism, HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain / General, Australasian & Pacific history, Australasian and Pacific history