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Record Nr.

UNINA9910829066803321

Autore

Ballantyne Tony

Titolo

Entanglements of Empire [[electronic resource] ] : Missionaries, Maori, and the Question of the Body

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Auckland, : Auckland University Press, 2015

ISBN

1-77558-799-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (377 p.)

Disciplina

993.02

Soggetti

Great Britain -- Colonies -- History -- 19th century

Maori (New Zealand people) -- Missions -- History -- 19th century

New Zealand -- History -- To 1840

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

Front Cover ; Title Page ; Half Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Bodies in Contact, Bodies in Question; Chapter One: Exploration, Empire, and Evangelization; Chapter Two: Making Place, Reordering Space; Chapter Three: Economics, Labor, and Time; Chapter Four: Containing Transgression; Chapter Five: Cultures of Death; Chapter Six: The Politics of the ""Enfeebled"" Body; Conclusion: Bodies and the Entanglements of Empire; Notes; Glossary; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Tony Ballantyne (born Dunedin, 1972) is a historian whose works examine the development of imperial intellectual and cultural life in Ireland, India, New Zealand and Britain. He graduated BA at the University of Otago and obtained a PhD at the University of Cambridge under the supervision of Professor C. A. Bayly. He is currently chair of the History Department and director of the Centre for Research on Colonial Culture at the University of Otago, but has previously taught at Washington University in St Louis, the University of Illinois, and the National University of Ireland. In 2012 he was e