Webs of Empire

Tony Ballantyne is a professor of history, head of the Department of History and Art History, and director of the Centre for Research on Colonial Culture at the University of Otago in New Zealand.

• Preface: Connections, Comparisons and CommonalitiesNote on Language and UsageIntroduction: Relocating Colonial HistoriesReframing Colonialism1 Race and the Webs of EmpireConnections2 Writing Out Asia3 Teaching Maori About Asia4 India in New Zealand5 Te Anu's StoryEmpire6 Sealers, Whalers and the Entanglements of Empire7 Christianity, Colonialism and Cross-Cultural Communication8 War, Knowledge and the Crisis of EmpireWriting9 Archives, Empires and Histories of Colonialism10 Mr. Peal's Archive11 Paper, Pen and Print12 Writing and the Culture of ColonisationPlace13 Thinking Local14 On Place, Space and MobilityConclusion: Writing the Colonial PastEditorial NoteEndnotesIndex

Webs of Empire demonstrates Tony Ballantyne's archival richness and mastery of his profession, provoking new interpretations of history and historians. This is compelling and essential reading. - Lydia Wevers is a professor and director of the Stout Research Centre at the Victoria University of Wellington