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Title

(Dis)placing empire : renegotiating British colonial geographies / edited by Lindsay J. Proudfoot and Michael M. Roche.

Publication

Aldershot, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate Pub., 2005.

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Additional Authors

• Proudfoot, L. J. (Lindsay J.)
• Roche, M. M.

Description

xi, 208 p. : ill., maps; 24 cm.

Series Statement

Heritage, culture, and identity

Alternative Title

Displacing empire

Subject

• Postcolonialism > English-speaking countries
• Decolonization > English-speaking countries
• Postcolonialism > Commonwealth countries
• Decolonization > Commonwealth countries
• Great Britain > History > 19th century
• Great Britain > History > 20th century
• Ireland > History > 19th century

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Introduction : place, network, and the geographies of empire / Lindsay Proudfoot and Michael Roche -- Colonial spaces and sites of resistance : landed estates in 19th century Ireland / Paddy Duffy -- The unsettled country : landscape, history, and memory in Australia's wheatlands / Joy McCann -- Place and presbyterian discourse in colonial Australia / Lindsay Proudfoot -- Irishness, gender, and household space in "an up-country township" / Di Hall -- Performing power, demonstrating resistance : interpreting Queen Victoria's visit to Dublin in 1900 / Yvonne Whelan -- Environment-identity convergences in Australia, 1880-1950 / J.M. Powell -- Empire, duty, and land : soldier settlement in New Zealand, 1915-1924 / Michael Roche -- "Oriental sore" or "public nuisance" : the regulation of prostitution in Colonial India, 1805-1889 / M. Satish Kumar -- Prostitution and the place of empire : regulation and repeal in Hong Kong and the British imperial network / Philip Howell.

ISBN

0754642135 (alk. paper)

LCCN

2005003566

OCLC

57641454

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library