Table of Contents

Part 1: Framings
Introduction: Southern Circulations and the Making and Remaking of Australasia, Tony Ballantyne (University of Otago, New Zealand)
1. Framing Australasia: Empire, Colonization and the Cartographic Imagination, Tony Ballantyne (University of Otago, New Zealand)
Part II: Circulating People and the Production of Space
2. Circulating Texts on Circulating People: Mobilities, Epistemic violence, and the Creation of the Imagined Australasian, Rachel Standfield (University of Melbourne, Australia)
3. Triangular Formation: Fiji, New Zealand and Australia, Frances Steel (University of Otago, New Zealand)
4. ‘A Splendid Thing’: Imagining Australasian Federation, Frank Bongiorno (Australian National University, Australia)
5. Cosmopolitan Pacific: Pan-Pacific Internationalisms in the Mid Twentieth Century, Fiona Paisley and Helen Gardner (Griffith University and Deakin University, Australia)
6. ‘We seem to shake hands across the seas’: Dora Meeson Coates and the Lost World of Australasian Suffrage Activism, James Keating (University of New South Wales, Australia)
7. Circulations of belonging: Chinese British subjects in Australasia, 1880–1920, Kate Bagnall (University of Tasmania, Australia)
Part III: Environmental Transformations
8. We Keep Down Our Remorse: Anthony Trollope and the Emotional Politics of Australasian Agriculture, Grace Moore (University of Otago, New Zealand)
9. Brooch Clams and Blind Lobsters: HMS Challenger in the Australasian Pacific, 1874-5, Gillen D’Arcy Wood (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, USA)
10. Gorse is People, Thomas McLean (University of Otago, New Zealand)
Part IV: Texts in Motion
11. Antipodean Perspectives: The Politics and Economics of Being Topsy-Turvy, Sarah Comyn (University College Dublin, Ireland)
12. Pedestrian Touring, Racial Violence and Bad Feeling in Trans-Tasman Settler Fiction, Porscha Fermanis (University College Dublin, Ireland)
13. When Detection Goes South: Ngaio Marsh’s Wartime “New Zealand” Novels, 1937-1945, Antoinette Burton (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, USA)


Conclusion: Perpetual Flight: Relationships in Space and Time, Tony Ballantyne (University of Otago, New Zealand)

Selected Bibliography
Index

Promotional Information

An exploration of how the idea of Australasia has been made and re-made through the movement of texts and people from the middle of the 18th century to the present day.

About the Author

Tony Ballantyne is Professor of History and Pro-Vice-Chancellor of Humanities at the University of Otago, New Zealand, where he is also Co-Director of the Centre for Research on Colonial Culture. He has published widely on empires in modern world history, the cultural history of the British Empire in the nineteenth century, and colonialism and its consequences in New Zealand. His most recent monograph is Entanglements of Empire.

Reviews

Australasia is an alluring concept. The Making and Remaking of Australasia takes readers beyond its deep connotation of southern-ness to expand our geographical and ideological horizons. The authors illuminate how ‘Australasia’ has been formed and reformed as people, ideas, commodities, and texts circulate and recirculate in a hyper-mobile world.
*Kristyn Harman, Associate Professor, University of Tasmania, Australia*

This collection offers a significant justification for maintaining “Australasian” as a meaningful term, especially when considering the nineteenth century, and a reminder that when we look back historically we should hold in parentheses the national boundaries that eventually came to demarcate the region.
*Victorian Studies*