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Zusatztext A book packed with detail and analysis. Informationen zum Autor Julia Martínez is Associate Professor of History at the University of Wollongong, Australia. Claire Lowrie is Senior Lecturer in History at the University of Wollongong, Australia. Frances Steel is Senior Lecturer in History at the University of Wollongong, Australia. Victoria K Haskins is Professor of History at the University of Newcastle, Australia. Director of the Purai Global Indigenous History Centre, she works on histories of gender and colonialism, domestic service, and women’s cross-cultural relationships. She is the author of One Bright Spot (2005), Matrons and Maids: Regulating Indian Domestic Service in Tucson, 1914-1934 (2012), Living with the Locals: Early Europeans’ Experience of Indigenous Life (with John Maynard, 2016), and Colonialism and Male Domestic Service across the Asia Pacific (with Julia Martinez, Claire Lowrie and Frances Steel, 2019). Zusammenfassung Examining the role of Asian and indigenous male servants across the Asia Pacific from the late-19th century to the 1930s, this study shows how their ubiquitous presence in these purportedly 'humble' jobs gave them a degree of cultural influence that has been largely overlooked in the literature on labour mobility in the age of empire.With case studies from British Hong Kong, Singapore, Northern Australia, Fiji and British Columbia, French Indochina, the American Philippines and the Dutch East Indies, the book delves into the intimate and often conflicted relationships between European and American colonists and their servants. It explores the lives of ‘houseboys’, cooks and gardeners in the colonial home, considers the bell-boys and waiters in the grand colonial hotels, and follows the stewards and cabin-boys on steamships travelling across the Indian and Pacific Oceans. This broad conception of service allows Colonialism and Male Domestic Service to illuminate trans-colonial or cross-border influences through the mobility of servants and their employers.This path-breaking study is an important book for students and scholars of colonialism, labour history and the Asia Pacific region. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction1. Creating the Houseboy: Early Asian influences on European cultures of domestic service2. Indigenous Houseboys and Asian Ideals in Darwin and Suva3. Intercultural Influences on American Domesticity in the Philippines4. Colonial patriarchy and representations of masculinity in photographs of domestic workers5. Steamship Stewards: Encountering Asia on the high seas6. From India to Fiji: Cultures of service in the grand hotel7. Labour and Political Activism by Chinese and Vietnamese Domestic WorkersConclusionBibliography...
