Spread across the nineteenth-century colonial world was a tangled web of cultural and economic networks. In groundbreaking research, Tony Ballantyne positions New Zealand within these ‘webs of empire’, connecting Gore and Chicago, Māori and Asia, India and newspapers, whalers and writing. His work breaks open the narrative of colonisation to offer sharp new perspectives on New Zealand history.
Bringing together essays from two decades of prolific publishing on international colonial history, Webs of Empire demonstrates why Tony Ballantyne is one of the most influential historians working in New Zealand today.
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Introduction: Relocating Colonial Histories
Reframing Colonialism
1. Race and the Webs of Empire
Connections
2. Writing Out Asia
3. Teaching Māori About Asia
4. India in New Zealand
5. Te Anu’s Story
Empire
6. Sealers, Whalers and the Entanglements of Empire
7. Christianity, Colonisation and Cross-Cultural Communication
8. War, Knowledge and the Crisis of Empire
Writing
9. Archives, Empires and Histories of Colonialism
10. Mr Peal’s Archive
11. Paper, Pen and Print
12. Writing and the Culture of Colonisation
Place
13. Thinking Local
14. On Place, Space and Mobility
Conclusion: Writing the Colonial Past