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• General editor's introduction 1. Introduction 2. (Re)Presenting Empire 3. Place and Diaspora 4. Dislocations? 5. Relocations: Land, Legislation, and Memory 6. Pastoral Places 7. Urban Enactments 8. Sites of Faith and Memory 9. Conclusion Index
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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 Irish and Scots settlers grounded their sense of belonging in the imagined landscapes of south-east Australia. Imperial spaces is relevant to academics and students interested in the history and geography of the British Empire, Australia, Ireland and Scotland. -- .
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• General editor's introduction 1. Introduction 2. (Re)Presenting Empire 3. Place and Diaspora 4. Dislocations? 5. Relocations: Land, Legislation, and Memory 6. Pastoral Places 7. Urban Enactments 8. Sites of Faith and Memory 9. Conclusion Index
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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 Irish and Scots settlers grounded their sense of belonging in the imagined landscapes of south-east Australia. Imperial spaces is relevant to academics and students interested in the history and geography of the British Empire, Australia, Ireland and Scotland. -- .
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This work combines historical concerns for landownership/agrarian society with an analysis of the social/demographic structure and functional role of provincial Irish towns. It examines the roles played by successive Dukes of Devonshire in five Irish towns they owned between 1794 and 1891.
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• Introduction: Place, network, and the geographies of Empire, Lindsay Proudfoot and Michael Roche. 'Dis-Locations': Colonial spaces and sites of resistance: landed estates in 19th Century Ireland, Paddy Duffy
• The unsettled country: landscape, history, and memory in Australia's Wheatlands, Joy McCann
• Place and presbyterian discourse in Colonial Australia, Lindsay Proudfoot
• Irishness, gender and household space in "An Up-country Township", Di Hall. Performing power, demonstrating resistance: interpreting Queen Victoria's visit to Dublin in 1900, Yvonne Whelan
• 'Translocations'
• Environment-identity convergences in Australia, 1880-1950, J.M. Powell
• Empire, Duty and land: soldier settlement in New Zealand 1915-1924, Michael Roche
• 'Oriental Sore' or 'Public Nuisance': the regulation of prostitution in Colonial India, 1805-1889, M. Satish Kumar
• Prostitution and the place of Empire: regulation and repeal in Hong Kong and the British Imperial network, Philip Howell. 'Displacement': Displacement, Lindsay Proudfoot and Michael Roche
• Index.
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While there has been for the past two decades a lively and extensive academic debate about postcolonial representations of imperialism and colonialism, there has been little work which focuses on 'placed' materialist or critical geographical perspectives. The contributors to this volume offer such a perspective, asserting the inadequacy of conventional 'self/other' binaries in postcolonial analysis which fail to recognise the complex ways in which space and place were implicated in constructing the individual experience of Empire. Illustrated with case studies of British colonialism in Australia, Hong Kong, India, Ireland and New Zealand in the later nineteenth and twentieth centuries, the book uncovers the complex and unstable spaces of meaning which were central to the experience of emigrants, settlers, expatriates and indigenous peoples at different time/place moments under British rule. In critically examining place and hybridity within a discursive context, "(Dis)placing Empire" offers new insights into the practice of Empire.
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• Physical environment
• structural environment of the Mediterranean Basin
• Mediterranean climate
• earth surface processes
• the historical context
• the Graeco-Roman legacy and the Mediterranean identities
• the Mediterranean in the Medieval context and Renaissance worlds
• colonialism and the emergence of the twentieth century Mediterranean world
• contemporary human processes, population growth, economic development and political change
• politics and society in the Meditterranean Basin, an overview
• Mediterranean space economics and the pattern of regional development
• European community enlargement and the Mediterranean
• population growth, an aviodable crises?
• Mediterranean urbanization, diversity and change
• Agrarian societies and modernisation
• tourism and uneven threats of desertification
• coastal zone management
• finale
• the way forward.
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This text addresses contemporary geographical issues in the Mediterranean Basin from a perspective that recognizes the physical characteristics and cultural interactions which link the different Mediterranean states as a geographic entity. Emphasis is placed upon the interaction between society and environment in terms of environmental management, differential regional development and its associated political, demographic, cultural and economic tensions. The study assumes no previous knowledge of the area and is aimed towards students taking field trips to the region.
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• Contributors. Acknowledgements. List of Illustrations. List of Tables. B.J. Graham, Early Medieval Ireland: Settlement as an Indicator of Economic and Social Transformation. B.J. Graham, The High Middle Ages. T.B. Barry, Date Medieval Ireland: The Debate on Social and Economic Transformation. R. Gillespie, Explorers, Exploiters and Entrepreneurs: Early Modern Ireland and its Context. L. Kennedy and L.A. Clarkson, Secular Trends and Regional Variation in Irish Population. L.J. Proudfoot, Regionalism and Localism: Religious Change and Social Protest. L.J. Proudfoot , Spatial Transformation and Social Agency: Property Society and Improvement. S.A. Royle, Industrialisation, Urbanisation and Urban Society in Post-Famine Ireland. M. Turner, Rural Economies in Post-Famine Ireland. C.J. Houston and W.J. Smyth, The Irish Diaspora: Emigration to the New World. B. Collins, The Irish in Britain. W.J. Smyth, The Making of Ireland: Agendas and Perspectives in Cultural Geography.
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"An Historical Geography of Ireland" offers students a comprehensive reassessment of the evolution of society and economy in Ireland, presenting an informed account of how that past illuminates the present. In this volume, distinguished scholars synthesize recent research in Irish historical geography and economic history and present it in an explicit theoretical framework. Starting from the ninth century and continuing to the present, it examines both the internal and external forces that have shaped Ireland. It provides a comprehensive historical geography of Ireland in one volume and covers the Irish diaspora, especially to the US. It places Ireland in its international context.
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