LEADER 03002nam 22005651a 450 001 9910818747003321 005 20200514202323.0 010 $a1-350-05675-8 010 $a1-350-05674-X 024 7 $a10.5040/9781350056756 035 $a(CKB)4100000006672767 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC5516512 035 $a(OCoLC)1054065851 035 $a(UkLoBP)bpp09262330 035 $a(UtOrBLW)bpp09262330 035 $a(UkLoBP)BP9781350056756BC 035 $a(EXLCZ)994100000006672767 100 $a20181015d2018 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aColonialism and male domestic service across the Asia Pacific /$fJulia Marti?nez, Claire Lowrie, Frances Steel and Victoria Haskins 210 $aLondon $cBloomsbury Publishing$d2018 215 $a1 online resource (281 pages) 311 $a1-350-16360-0 311 $a1-350-05672-3 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 225-252) and index. 330 $a"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. 606 $aHousehold employees$zAsia 606 $aHousehold employees$zOceania 606 $aLabor$zAsia$xHistory 606 $aLabor$zOceania$xHistory 615 0$aHousehold employees 615 0$aHousehold employees 615 0$aLabor$xHistory. 615 0$aLabor$xHistory. 676 $a909.0971241 700 $aMarti?nez$b Julia$0193753 701 $aLowrie$b Claire$01626577 701 $aSteel$b Frances$01626578 701 $aHaskins$b Victoria$01155930 801 0$bUtOrBLW 801 1$bUtOrBLW 801 2$bUkLoBP 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910818747003321 996 $aColonialism and male domestic service across the Asia Pacific$93962706 997 $aUNINA