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This book explores the emergence of 'Australasia' as a way of thinking about the culture and geography of this region. Although it is frequently understood to apply only to Australia and New Zealand, the concept has a longer and more complicated history. 'Australasia' emerged in the mid-18th century in both French and British writing as European empires extended their reach into Asia and the Pacific, and initially held strong links to the A...

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The contributors to Indigenous Textual Cultures examined the ways in which indigenous peoples created textual cultures to navigate, shape, and contest empire, colonialism, and modernity.

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Captain Jim Wedderburn has looks, style and courage by the bucketful. He's adored by women, respected by men and feared by his enemies. He's the man to find out who has twisted London into this strange new world, and he knows it. But in Dream London the city changes a little every night and now everyone is changing, no one is who they seem to be.

Empire was not fabricated in European capitals and implemented "out there." Imperial systems affected the metropole as well as the farthest outpost. Empires and the Reach of the Global shows how imperialism has been a shaping force not just in international politics but in the economies and cultures of today's world.

Investigating how intimacy is constructed across the restless world of empire

Breaking open colonisation to reveal tangled cultural and economic networks, Webs of Empireoffers new paths into our colonial history. Linking Gore and Chicago, Maori and Asia, India and newspapers, whalers and writing, empire building becomes a spreading web of connected places, people, ideas, and trade. These links question narrow, national stories, while broadening perspectives on the past and the legacies of colonialism that persist today....

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Breaking open colonization to reveal tangled cultural and economicnetworks, "Webs of Empire" offers new paths into our colonialhistory. Linking Gore and Chicago, Maori and Asia, India andnewspapers, whalers and writing, empire building becomes a spreadingweb of connected places, people, ideas, and trade. These links questionnarrow, national stories, while broadening perspectives on the past andthe legacies of colonialism that persist today. Br...

Tony Ballantyne is Professor of History at the University of Otago. He is the author or editor of many books, including Between Colonialism and Diaspora: Sikh Cultural Formations in an Imperial World and Bodies in Contact: Rethinking Colonial Encounters in World History, both also published by Duke University Press.

Tony Ballantyne is Professor of History at the University of Otago. He is the author or editor of many books, including Between Colonialism and Diaspora: Sikh Cultural Formations in an Imperial World and Bodies in Contact: Rethinking Colonial Encounters in World History, both also published by Duke University Press.

After a tumultuous beginning, mid-23rd-century Earth now peacefully operates under the constant surveillance of the Watcher. But is the radical evolution that the Watcher has in mind a step forward or the beginning of a mighty split that will cast aside everything that truly makes us human? Original.

Analyzes historical construction of Sikh identity in the context of colonial modernity and post-colonial diaspora, with an emphasis on competing narratives of religious and ethnic identity arising from cross-cultural interactions.

Analyzes historical construction of Sikh identity in the context of colonial modernity and post-colonial diaspora, with an emphasis on competing narratives of religious and ethnic identity arising from cross-cultural interactions.

In the 23rd century, hyper-intellgent robots exist alongside humans and cloning is commonplace. But man and artificial intelligence alike face a new threat from beyond the galaxy in this gripping novel by the author of "Recursion.

In this volume, leading historians reflect on writing about New Zealand's past. They also test how that past is investigated and framed. Their essays tell us much about New Zealand's many pasts and how historians have imagined them, and indicate particular concerns with what the country is now and the current role of history as a discipine within our nation. They ask questions and venture some answers. The introductory essay by the editors sur...