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Format: 1 Online-Ressource (xv, 213 Seiten) : , Illustrationen.

ISBN: 978-1-78499-749-6 , 978-1-78499-793-9 , 978-1-5261-0965-1

Series Statement: Studies in imperialism

Content: 'Masters and servants' explores the politics of colonial mastery and domestic servitude in the neighbouring British colonies of Singapore and Darwin. Through an exploration of master-servant relationships within British, white Australian and Chinese homes, this book illustrates the centrality of the domestic realm to the colonial project. It is the first comparative history of domestic service and British colonialism in the tropics, and highlights the important role which 'houseboys' played in colonial households in the tropics and the common preference for Chinese 'houseboys' throughout Southeast Asia. The book is meticulously researched, and draws from archives that have never been addressed in this way before. Its highly original and innovative approach, which combines comparative analysis with a focus on transcolonial connections, puts the book at the forefront of current postcolonial scholarship. The insights that 'Masters and servants' provides into the domestic politics of colonial rule make this book essential reading for students and scholars of empire

Note: Introduction: Domestic service and colonial mastery in the tropics -- 1. A 'second Singapore'? The connected histories of Darwin and Singapore, 1860s-1930s -- 2. Historicising 'houseboys': cultures of male servitude in the tropics, 1880s-1910s -- 3. White masters and their Chinese 'houseboys': masculinity, sexuality and racial anxiety in the home, 1880s-1930s -- 4. White women and the case of the disappearing Chinese 'houseboys', 1910s-30s -- 5. Idle mems, weary wives and 'red hot revolutionaries': domestic tension and political antagonism in the home, 1910s-30s -- 6. Masters and colonisers: the politics of Chinese domestic mastery, 1920s-30s -- Conclusion: Domestic service at the end of empire -- Select bibliography of secondary sources -- Index

Additional Edition: Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe, Hardcover ISBN 978-0-7190-9533-7

Language: English

Subjects: History

Keywords: Kolonie ; Sklaverei ; Herrschaft

DOI: 10.7765/9781784997496

URL: Volltext  (URL des Erstveröffentlichers)

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URL: Manchester scholarship online

URL: Manchester scholarship online

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Format: 1 Online-Ressource (xiv, 266 pages) , Illustrationen, Porträts

Edition: 2014

ISBN: 9781350056756 , 9781350056749 , 9781350056732

Content: "Examining the role of Asian and indigenous male servants across the Asia Pacific from the late-19th century to the 1930s, this study shows how their ubiquitous presence in these purportedly 'humble' jobs gave them a degree of cultural influence that has been largely overlooked in the literature on labour mobility in the age of empire. With case studies from British Hong Kong, Singapore, Northern Australia, Fiji and British Columbia, French Indochina, the American Philippines and the Dutch East Indies, the book delves into the intimate and often conflicted relationships between European and American colonists and their servants. It explores the lives of 'houseboys', cooks and gardeners in the colonial home, considers the bell-boys and waiters in the grand colonial hotels, and follows the stewards and cabin-boys on steamships travelling across the Indian and Pacific Oceans. This broad conception of service allows Colonialism and Male Domestic Service to illuminate trans-colonial or cross-border influences through the mobility of servants and their employers. This path-breaking study is an important book for students and scholars of colonialism, labour history and the Asia Pacific region."--Bloomsbury Publishing

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Additional Edition: ISBN 9781350056725

Additional Edition: Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 978-1-350-05672-5

Language: English

Keywords: Pazifischer Raum ; Südostasien ; Kolonialismus ; Haushaltshilfe ; Mann ; Indischer Einwanderer ; Chinesischer Einwanderer ; Vietnamesischer Einwanderer ; Soziale Situation

DOI: 10.5040/9781350056756

URL: Volltext

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Format: 1 online resource (234 p.) : , 14 b&w illustrations

ISBN: 9780824898144

Series Statement: Asia Pacific Flows

Content: Chinese Colonial Entanglements takes a new geographical approach to understanding the Chinese diaspora, shining a light on Chinese engagement in labor, trade, and industry in the British colonies of the southern Asia Pacific. Starting from the 1880s, a decade when British colonization was rapidly expanding and establishing new industries and townships, this volume covers the period up to 1950, including the 1930s when economic competition saw new racialized immigration restrictions, and the 1940s when Chinese traders found new opportunities. The editors, Julia T. Martínez, Claire Lowrie, and Gregor Benton, bring together nine historians of Chinese diaspora in an effort to break down the boundaries of traditional area studies. Collectively, the chapters offer fresh comparative and transnational perspectives on economic entanglements across a region bounded by the Malay archipelago, Australia, New Zealand, and the islands of the western Pacific. Histories of white settler colonies such as Australia have tended to view Chinese diasporic experiences through the lens of exclusionary politics and closed borders. This book challenges such interpretations, bringing to the fore Chinese economic endeavors that connected Australia with Southeast Asia and the Pacific. The volume begins with an introduction that makes the case for a regional approach to Chinese diaspora history. This is followed by chapters on colonial commodity production where Chinese traders and workers were central to the development of colonial banana, phosphate, and furniture industries. These industries reflect the diversity of Chinese roles, from small business owners to indentured workers for British colonial enterprise. The book then explores the economic activities of Chinese business elite from revenue farming to intercolonial trading and rural retail. It points to colonial restrictions on business development and explains how Chinese enterprises sought to overcome restrictions through relationships with colonial leaders and by mobilizing Chinese family and transnational business networks in case studies from British North Borneo, Australia, and Samoa. Relying on diverse sources, including archival correspondence, Chinese-language newspapers, personal letters and oral histories, the authors reveal the importance of social, familial, and political connections in shaping the relationships between the colonial authorities and Chinese workers and traders.

Note: Frontmatter -- , Contents -- , Illustrations and Tables -- , Acknowledgments -- , Note on Romanization and Chinese Characters -- , CHAPTER 1 Introduction: Chinese Economic Entanglements in the Southern Asia Pacific -- , PART I: COMMODITIES -- , CHAPTER 2 The Australasian Banana Industry: Chinese, Australian, and Pacific Economic Connections -- , CHAPTER 3 Chinese Furniture Factories and European Businesses in Australia, 1880–1900 -- , CHAPTER 4 Chinese Indentured Labor and the Christmas Island Phosphate Company -- , PART II: CHINESE BUSINESS LEADERS -- , CHAPTER 5 Chinese Business Elites and Revenue Farming in British North Borneo -- , CHAPTER 6 Chinese Australian Transnational, Transfamilial Business Practices: The Man Sun Wing Enterprise -- , CHAPTER 7 Chinese Entrepreneurs Connecting Rural Australia to Asia: Harry Fay of Hong Yuen Pty Ltd. -- , CHAPTER 8 Chinese Business in Samoa before World War II -- , CHAPTER 9 Epilogue -- , Selected Bibliography -- , Editors and Contributors -- , Index , In English.

Language: English

DOI: 10.1515/9780824898144

URL: https://doi.org/10.1515/9780824898144?locatt=mode:legacy

URL: https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780824898144

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Format: 1 online resource (382 pages)

ISBN: 9781317677932

Series Statement: Routledge International Studies of Women and Place Ser.

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Additional Edition: ISBN 9781138013896

Additional Edition: Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9781138013896

Language: English

URL: lizenzpflichtig

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Format: 1 online resource (xvi, 365 pages)

ISBN: 9781315772288 , 9781317677918 , 9781317677925

Series Statement: Routledge international studies of women and place 14

Content: Introduction: Decolonizing domestic service : introducing a new agenda / Victoria K. Haskins and Claire Lowrie -- 1. An historical perspective : colonial continuities in the global geography of domestic service / B.W. Higman -- 2. Domesti-city : colonial anxieties and postcolonial fantasies in the figure of the maid / Shireen Ally -- 3. Settling in, from within : Anglo-Indian "lady helps" in 1920s New Zealand / Jane McCabe -- 4. "Ah look afta de child like is mine" : discourses of mothering in Jamaican domestic service, 1920-1970 / Michele A. Johnson -- 5. "always a good demand" : aboriginal child domestic servants in nineteenth- and early twentieth century Australia / Shirleene Robinson -- 6. Maids' talk : linguistic containment and mobility for Sri Lankan housemaids in Lebanon / Fida Bizri -- 7. Foreign domestic workers in Singapore : historical and contemporary reflections on the colonial politics of intimacy / Maria Platt -- 8. "Strictly legal means" : assault, abuse and the limits of acceptable behaviour in the servant-employer relationship in Metropole and Colony, 1850-1890 / Fae Dussart -- 9. Imperial legacies and neoliberal realities : domestic worker organizing in postcolonial New York City / Alana Lee Glaser -- 10. Tactics of survival : images of aboriginal women and domestic service / Michael Aird -- 11. "I would like the girls at home" : domestic labor and the age of discharge at Canadian Indian residential schools / Mary Jane Logan McCallum -- 12. White mistresses and Chinese "houseboys" : domestic politics in Singapore and Darwin from the 1910s to the 1930s / Claire Lowrie -- 13. Baby Halder's A life less ordinary : a transition from India's colonial past? / Swapna M. Banerjee -- 14. From our own backyard? Understanding UK Au Pair policy as colonial legacy and neocolonial dream / Rosie Cox -- 15. Taking colonialism home : Cook Island "housegirls" in New Zealand, 1939-1948 / Charlotte MacDonald -- 16. British Caribbean women migrants and domestic service in Latin America, 1850-1950 : race, gender and colonial legacies / Nicola Foote -- 17. Contemporary Balinese cruise ship workers, passengers and employers : colonial patterns of domestic service / Pamela Nilan, Luh Putu Artini and Steven Threadgold -- 18. A contemporary perspective : "Picking the fruit from the tree" : from colonial legacy to global protections in transnational domestic worker activism / Jennifer N. Fish -- Conclusion: Agency, representation, and subalternity : some concluding thoughts / Victoria K. Haskins and Claire Lowrie.

Additional Edition: ISBN 9781138013896

Additional Edition: ISBN 9781138546387

Additional Edition: Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9781138013896

Language: English

DOI: 10.4324/9781315772288

URL: lizenzpflichtig

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Format: xv, 213 Seiten , Illustrationen

ISBN: 9780719095337

Series Statement: Studies in Imperialism

Content: Introduction: domestic service and colonial mastery in the tropics -- A 'second Singapore'? The connected histories of Darwin and Singapore, 1860s-1930s -- Historicising 'houseboys': cultures of male servitude in the tropics, 1880s-1910s -- White masters and their Chinese 'houseboys': masculinity, sexuality and racial anxiety in the home, 1880s-1930s -- White women and the decline of Chinese 'houseboys', 1910s-1930s -- Idle mems, weary wives and 'red hot revolutionaries': domestic tension and political antagonism in the home, 1910s-1930s -- Masters and colonisers: the politics of Chinese domestic mastery, 1920s-1930s -- Conclusion: domestic service at the end of the Empire

Language: English

Subjects: History

Keywords: Singapur ; Darwin ; Kolonialismus ; Dienstbote ; Kulturkontakt ; Geschichte 1860-1940

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Format: 280 Seiten : , Illustrationen, 1 Karte ; , 24 cm.

ISBN: 9781350056725 , 9781350163607

Content: Examining the role of Asian and indigenous male servants across the Asia Pacific from the late-19th century to the 1930s, this study shows how their ubiquitous presence in these purportedly 'humble' jobs gave them a degree of cultural influence that has been largely overlooked in the literature on labour mobility in the age of empire. With case studies from British Hong Kong, Singapore, Northern Australia, Fiji and British Columbia, French Indochina, the American Philippines and the Dutch East Indies, the book delves into the intimate and often conflicted relationships between European and American colonists and their servants. It explores the lives of 'houseboys', cooks and gardeners in the colonial home, considers the bell-boys and waiters in the grand colonial hotels, and follows the stewards and cabin-boys on steamships travelling across the Indian and Pacific Oceans. This broad conception of service allows Colonialism and Male Domestic Service to illuminate trans-colonial or cross-border influences through the mobility of servants and their employers. This path-breaking study is an important book for students and scholars of colonialism, labour history and the Asia Pacific region

Additional Edition: Erscheint auch als Online-Ausgabe, pdf ISBN 9781350056749

Language: English

Subjects: History , Sociology

Keywords: Asiaten ; Diener

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Format: 1 online resource (232 pages) : , illustrations (black & white), map, tables; digital, PDF file(s).

Edition: MSI edition.

ISBN: 1-78499-793-5 , 1-5261-0965-4 , 1-78499-749-8

Series Statement: Studies in imperialism

Content: 'Masters and Servants' explores the politics of colonial mastery and domestic servitude in the neighbouring British colonies of Singapore and Darwin. Through an exploration of master-servant relationships within British, white Australian and Chinese homes, this text illustrates the centrality of the domestic realm to the colonial project. It is a comparative history of domestic service and British colonialism in the tropics, and highlights the important role which 'houseboys' played in colonial households in the tropics and the common preference for Chinese 'houseboys' throughout Southeast Asia.

Note: Description based upon print version of record. , Cover ; Masters and servants; Contents ; List of figures ; List of tables ; Acknowledgements ; List of foreign words and terms ; Introduction: Domestic service and colonial mastery in the tropics; 1 A 'second Singapore'? The connected histories of Darwin and Singapore, 1860s-1930s; 2 Historicising 'houseboys': cultures of male servitude in the tropics, 1880s-1910s; 3 White masters and their Chinese 'houseboys': masculinity, sexuality and racial anxiety in the home, 1880s-1930s; 4 White women and the decline of Chinese 'houseboys', 1910s-1930s , 5 Idle mems, weary wives and 'red hot revolutionaries': domestic tension and political antagonism in the home, 1910s-1930s6 Masters and colonisers: the politics of Chinese domestic mastery, 1920s-1930s; Conclusion: Domestic service at the end of Empire; Select bibliography of secondary sources; Index , In English.

Additional Edition: ISBN 0-7190-9533-6

Language: English

DOI: 10.7765/9781784997496