Benjamin Mountford (Research Fellow and Federation Univer Lecturer

BRITAIN, CHINA, COLONIAL AUSTRALIA OHM C

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Produktdetails

• Oxford Historical Monographs
• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 318
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. November 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 222mm x 145mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 482g
• ISBN-13: 9780198790549
• ISBN-10: 0198790546
• Artikelnr.: 47864787

Autorenporträt

Benjamin Mountford is a Senior Lecturer in History at the Australian Catholic University in Melbourne. From 2008 to 2015, Ben was at Oxford, where he was a Rae and Edith Bennett Travelling Scholar, a Beit Scholar in Commonwealth and Imperial History, a Research Associate at the Oxford Centre for Global History, and the first Michael Brock Junior Research Fellow in Modern British History. He is a co-founder and convener of the Oxford Transnational and Global History Research Seminar. Ben's research and teaching centres on Australian, British, global, and imperial history; museology; public history; and heritage.

Inhaltsangabe

* Introduction
* PART I: Britain, China, and the Australian Colonies, 1788-1888
* 1: Sometimes as a Half-Way House to China
* 2: Two Enormous Overflowing Reservoirs: Gold, Migration, and the
Chinese Question in Australia
* PART II: The Afghan Crisis of 1888
* 3: British Policymaking and the Chinese Migration Question
* 4: Serve Yourself If You'd Be Well Served: The Afghan Affair as
Imperial Crisis
* 5: The Official Mind and the Search for a Solution
* PART III: New Imperialisms
* 6: Australia and the Problems of the Far East
* 7: The Time for Small Kingdoms Has Passed Away: Australia, China, and
the Imperial Future
* Conclusion: Chinese Questions
* Bibliography