Imperial Spaces: Placing the Irish and Scots in Colonial Australia
Lindsay Proudfoot
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Hardback. Taking two of the most important white minorities in the colonial era, the Irish and the Scots, the book explores how they imagined and performed their new lives as place in the landscapes of south-east Australia. Series: Studies in Imperialism. Num Pages: 288 pages, Illustrations, maps. BIC Classification: 1MBF; 3JF; 3JH; HBJM; HBLL; HBTQ. Category: (UF) Further/Higher Education. Dimension: 240 x 163 x 26. Weight in Grams: 562.
Imperial spaces takes two of the most influential minority groups of white settlers in the British Empire – the Irish and the Scots – and explores how they imagined themselves within the landscapes of its farthest reaches, the Australian colonies of Victoria and New South Wales. Using letters and diaries as well as records of collective activities such as committee meetings, parades and dinners, the book examines how the Irish and Scots built new identities as settlers in the unknown spaces of Empire. Utilizing critical geographical theories of ‘place’ as the site of memory and agency, it considers how ... Read more
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Publisher
Manchester University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
288
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Series
Studies in Imperialism
Condition
New
Weight
561g
Number of Pages
264
Place of Publication
Manchester, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780719078378
SKU
V9780719078378
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99-15
About Lindsay Proudfoot
Lindsay Proudfoot, now retired, was formerly Reader in Historical Geography at Queen’s University Belfast Dianne Hall, formerly a Research Fellow at University of Melbourne is now Lecturer in History at Victoria University, Melbourne -- .
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