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Colonial Formations highlights the critical importance of colonial dynamics at the so-called peripheries of the British Empire.
List of contents
Introduction: on the critical importance of colonial formations
Jane Carey and Frances Steel
1. The New South Wales Bar and Aboriginal people: making Aboriginal subjects c. 1830-1866
Paula Jane Byrne
2. 'A walk for our race': colonial modernity, Indigenous mobility and the origins of the Young M¿ori Party
Jane Carey
3. Potter v. Minahan: Chinese Australians, the law and belonging in White Australia
Kate Bagnall
4. The 'Chinese' always belonged
Peter Prince
5. 'I am a British subject': Indians in Australia claiming their rights, 1880-1940
Margaret Allen
6. Servant mobilities between Fiji and New Zealand: the transcolonial politics of domestic work and immigration restriction, c.1870-1920
Frances Steel
7. Anticolonialism and the politics of friendship in New Zealand's Pacific
Nicholas Hoare
8. The politics of friendship and cosmopolitan thought zones at the end of empire: Indian women's study tours to Europe 1934-38
Jane Haggis
About the author
Jane Carey teaches and researches across settler colonial, women's and Indigenous histories at the University of Wollongong, Australia. She is the editor of
Re-Orienting Whiteness (2009), C
reating White Australia (2009), and
Indigenous Networks: Mobility, Connections and Exchange (2014).
Frances Steel teaches and researches Pacific and colonial history at the University of Wollongong, Australia. She is the author of Oc
eania Under Steam: Sea Transport and the Cultures of Colonialism, c. 1870-1914 (2011) and editor of
New Zealand and the Sea: Historical Perspectives (2018).
Summary
Colonial Formations highlights the critical importance of colonial dynamics at the so-called peripheries of the British Empire.
