Book ID: CBB001200612

Oceania under Steam: Sea Transport and the Cultures of Colonialism, c. 1870--1914 (2011)

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Steel, Frances (Author)


Manchester University Press


Publication Date: 2011
Physical Details: xxi + 246 pp.; bibl.; index
Language: English

The age of steam was the age of Britain's global maritime dominance, the age of enormous ocean liners and human mastery over the seas. The world seemed to shrink as timetabled shipping mapped out faster, more efficient and more reliable transoceanic networks. But what did this transport revolution look like at the other end of the line, at the edge of empire in the South Pacific? Through the historical example of the largest and most important regional maritime enterprise -- the Union Steam Ship Company of New Zealand -- Frances Steel eloquently charts the diverse and often conflicting interests, itineraries and experiences of commercial and political elites, common seamen and stewardesses, and Islander dock workers and passengers. Drawing on a variety of sources, including shipping company archives, imperial conference proceedings, diaries, newspapers and photographs, this book will appeal to cultural historians and geographers of British imperialism, scholars of transport and mobility studies, and historians of New Zealand and the Pacific. Pt. I Afloat -- 1. Steam's magic touch': routes, rivalries and regionalism in the Pacific -- 2. Liner: cultures of maritime technology -- pt. II Aboard -- 3. Crew culture: maritime men in an iron world -- 4. Labour, race and empire: debating the lascar question' -- 5. Guardians and troublemakers: confining women at sea -- pt. III Abroad -- 6. Tropical challenges of the island trades -- 7. Sitima days in Suva: wharf labourers and the colonial port -- 8. Indigenous maritime mobilities under colonial rule.

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Authors & Contributors
MacLeod, Roy M.
Suryanarayanan, Sainath
João Lúcio Azevedo
Halter, Nicholas
Eva Marlene Hausteiner
Reinhardt, Anne
Concepts
Great Britain, colonies
Imperialism
Technology and economics
Technology
Commerce
Technology and government
Time Periods
19th century
20th century, early
18th century
20th century
Enlightenment
17th century
Places
Islands of the Pacific
India
Pacific Ocean
Hawaii (U.S.)
Germany
Europe
Institutions
Kingdom of Italy (1861-1946)
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