Britishness abroad : transnational movements and imperial cultures.

314 Pages·2007·1.21 MB·English

by  Kate Darian-Smith

Britishness Abroad
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Britishness Abroad
Transnational Movements and Imperial Cultures
Kate Darian-Smith, Patricia Grimshaw and
Stuart Macintyre
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1. British - Migrations. 2. British - Ethnic identity. 3.
Ethnology - Commonwealth countries. I. Darian-Smith, Kate.
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Contents
Acknowledgements vii
Notes on Contributors viii
Introduction: Britishness Abroad 1
Kate Darian-Smith, Patricia Grimshaw and Stuart Macintyre
PART I: Transnational Movements 17
1 Bill Schwarz: ‘Shivering in the Noonday Sun’: The British
World and the Dynamics of ‘Nativisation’ 19
2 G ary B. Magee and Andrew S. Thompson: ‘Migrapounds’:
Remittance Flows Within the British World, c. 1875–1913 45
3 Stephen Banfield: Towards a History of Music in the
British Empire: Three Export Studies 63
4 Jonathan Hyslop: The British and Australian Leaders
of the South African Labour Movement, 1902–1914: A
Group Biography 90
5 John MacKenzie: The British World and the Complexities
of Anglicisation: The Scots in Southern Africa in the
Nineteenth Century 109
PART II: Imperial Cultures 131
6 Adele Perry: Whose World Was British? Rethinking the
‘British World’ from an Edge of Empire 133
7 Kate Darian-Smith: Images of Empire: Gender and
Nationhood in Australia at the Time of Federation 153
8 Patricia Grimshaw: Women and the Legacy of Britain’s
Imperial ‘Civilising Mission’ in New Zealand, 1894 to 1914 169
9 David Goodman: Loving and Hating Britain: Rereading the
Isolationist Debate in the USA 187
10 Anne Dickson-Waiko: Colonial Enclaves and Domestic
Spaces in British New Guinea 205
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11 Stuart Ward: The ‘New Nationalism’ in Australia, Canada
and New Zealand: Civic Culture in the Wake of the
British World 231
Bibliography 264
Index 294
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Acknowledgements
This collection originated from papers presented at The British World
Conference III, held in Melbourne in July 2004, as part of an interna-
tional series of conferences focusing on the experiences and legacies
of Empire in the former white settler colonies. We are grateful to all
who attended and presented, and to financial assistance from the
Australian Centre, Department of History and the Faculty of Arts,
University of Melbourne, for the conference organisation. Kiera
Lindsey provided help in the initial stage of this project, and Marie-
Louise Hillcoat has provided wonderful on-going support by coordi-
nating the original papers and formatting and checking references.
We are grateful to Louise Adler, Foong Ling Kong and Nathan Katz at
Melbourne University Press for their enthusiasm for this title. Ann
Standish (also a scholar of imperial culture) has been an exemplary
editor, and suggested the image for the cover design (courtesy
National Library of Australia). Clare Coney has undertaken the copy-
editing with care and efficiency, and Elizabeth Nelson has cheerfully
compiled the index. Thank you also to Peter Long for his wonderful
cover design.
Finally, our thanks to all of the authors in this volume for their
patience, and for their scholarly contributions to deeper historical
understandings of the British world.
The Editors
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Notes on Contributors
Stephen Banfield is Stanley Hugh Badock Professor of Music at the
University of Bristol, author of Sensibility and English Song (1985); the
prize-winning Sondheim’s Broadway Musicals (1993); Gerald Finzi: An
English Composer (1997); Jerome Kern (2006); and contributing editor
of Music in Britain: The 20th Century (1995). His new project is a his-
tory of music in the British Empire, and he is also editing Love Life for
the Kurt Weill Edition. He is an editorial committee member of the
national collection Musica Britannica, and founding director of
CHOMBEC (Centre for the History of Music in Britain, the Empire and
the Commonwealth) at the University of Bristol.
Kate Darian-Smith is Professor of Australian Studies and History at
the University of Melbourne. She has written on comparative colonial
cultures, on memory and commemoration and on aspects of Australian
cultural and social history, and on Britishness in contemporary
Australian society. Her publications include Text, Theory, Space: Land,
Literature and History in South Africa and Australia (1997); Memory
and History in Twentieth Century Australia (1997); and Stirring
Australian Speeches (2004).
Anne Dickson-Waiko teaches history and gender studies at the
University of Papua New Guinea. She is a gender specialist and a polit-
ical historian. She has conducted research on various aspects of wom-
en’s history, gender issues, women’s movements and activism in Papua
New Guinea and the Philippines, and is currently working on women,
gender and colonisation in Papua.
David Goodman is Senior Lecturer in American History at the
University of Melbourne, and convenor of the American Studies pro-
gram. His Goldseeking: Victoria and California in the 1850s (1994) was
awarded the Australian Historical Association’s biennial prize for its
outstanding contribution to Australian history. He is currently com-
pleting a book on American radio in the 1930s and 1940s, and
researching ordinary supporters of isolationism in the US in the same
period.
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Patricia Grimshaw is a Professorial Fellow, and the former Max
Crawford Professor of History, at the University of Melbourne. She has
published widely on gender and women’s history, missionary histories
and Australian and comparative history. Her books include Creating a
Nation (1994); co-editor of Women’s Rights and Human Rights:
International Perspectives (2001); and co-author of Equal Subjects,
Unequal Rights: Indigenous Peoples in British Settler Colonies (2003).
Jonathan Hyslop is Deputy Director of the Wits Institute for Social
and Economic Research (WISER), University of the Witswatersrand,
Johannesburg. He has published widely on nineteenth- and twen-
tieth-century South African social history. His most recent book is The
Notorious Syndicalist: J. T. Bain—A Scottish Rebel in Colonial South
Africa (2004).
Stuart Macintyre is the Ernest Scott Professor of History and former
Dean of the Faculty of Arts, University of Melbourne. His many publi-
cations include A Concise History of Australia (1999, 2004); volume 4
of The Oxford History of Australia (1986); The History Wars (2003); and
he has recently co-edited What If? Australian History As It Might Have
Been (2006).
John M. MacKenzie is Emeritus Professor at Lancaster University,
holds honorary professorships at St Andrews, Aberdeen, Stirling and
Edinburgh universities, and is a fellow of the Royal Society of
Edinburgh. Among his publications are Propaganda and Empire
(1984); The Empire of Nature (1988); and Orientalism: History, Theory
and the Arts (1995). He has also edited many works, including Peoples,
Nations and Cultures (2005). He has been editing the Manchester
University Press ‘Studies in Imperialism’ series for more than twenty
years and his book on the Scots in South Africa is currently in press.
He is now working on a Leverhulme Foundation project on the history
of museums in the Commonwealth.
Gary B. Magee is Professor of Economics at La Trobe University. He is
a former Director of the Asian Economics Centre at the University of
Melbourne, and was elected Fellow of the Royal Historical Society
UK in recognition of his contribution to economic history. His
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publications in the field of industrial development include the books
Productivity and Performance in the Paper Industry (1997) and
Knowledge Generation: Technological Change and Economic Growth
in Colonial Australia (2000). He is currently working on a study of the
‘cultural economy’ of the British world with Andrew Thompson.
Adele Perry teaches history at the University of Manitoba, where she
is the Canada Research Chair in Western Canadian Social History. She
is the author of the prize-winning On the Edge of Empire: Gender,
Race, and the Making of British Columbia (2001), and is currently
working on the history of migration, family and transnationalism and
the lived history of the British Empire.
Bill Schwarz is a Reader in the School of English and Drama, Queen
Mary, University of London, and works in cultural history and of post-
colonial studies with a particular interest in how the colonial histories
of the Caribbean have impacted on Britain itself. He has published on
the political and cultural history of twentieth-century Britain; and
also on historiography, historical time and memory. His three-volume
Memories of Empire is due out from Oxford University Press in 2007–
08. He is an editor of History Workshop Journal.
Andrew S. Thompson is Professor of Commonwealth and Imperial
History, and Dean of the Faculty of Arts, at the University of Leeds. He
is author of Imperial Britain: The Empire in British Politics, c. 1880–
1932 (2000) and The Empire Strikes Back?: The Impact of Imperialism
on Britain from the Mid-Nineteenth Century (2005). In 2007, he will
deliver the Trevor Reese Memorial Lecture at King’s College London
on public memories of empire in contemporary Britain. He is cur-
rently working on a study of the ‘cultural economy’ of the British
world with Gary Magee.
Stuart Ward is Associate Professor in the English Department at
Copenhagen University, where he teaches imperial history and post-
colonial studies. He works primarily on comparative settler-colonial
history and the impact of empire on metropolitan Britain, and is the
author of Australia and the British Embrace (2001), the editor of
British Culture and the End of Empire (2001) and co-editor of
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