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David Malouf - Don Randall - Bog - Manchester University Press - Plusbog.dk

David Malouf - Don Randall - Bog - Manchester University Press - Plusbog.dk

Don Randall''s comprehensive study situates Malouf within the field of contemporary international and postcolonial writing, but without losing sight of the author''s affiliation with Australian contexts. The book presents an original reading of Malouf, finding the unity of his work in the continuity of his ethical concerns: for Malouf, human lives find their value in transformations, specifically in instances of self-overcoming that encounters with difference or otherness provoke. However, the book is fully aware of, and informed by, the quite ample body of criticism on Malouf, and thus provides readers with a broad-based understanding of how Malouf''s works have been received and assessed. It is an effective companion volume for studies in postcolonial or Australian literature, for any study project in which Malouf figures prominently.

DKK 167.00
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Academic Ambassadors, Pacific Allies - Alice Garner - Bog - Manchester University Press - Plusbog.dk

Academic Ambassadors, Pacific Allies - Alice Garner - Bog - Manchester University Press - Plusbog.dk

Academic ambassadors, Pacific allies recounts the history of the Fulbright Program in Australia, locating academic exchange in the context of US cultural diplomacy and revealing a complex relationship between governments, publicly funded research and academic independence. The study traces the changing nature of the program over more than sixty years of Australia’s role as an ally of the US in the Asia-Pacific region. From its origins during post-war reconstruction and the early, defining years of the Cold War, and pre-dating other Australia-US treaties, the binational program jostled policy fluctuations, political and moral challenges posed by US and Australian military engagement in the Vietnam War, and the urgent realities of a declining public sector with associated funding cutbacks. The book shows how individual academics and program administrators worked to interpret the meaning of academic exchange for ‘mutual benefit’ across the decades. Gender differentiation in the administration and allocation of awards, scholars’ engagement in civil rights protests or gay rights activism, and the program’s influence on the emergence of new fields of academic enquiry are explored in detail. Posing critical questions and drawing on previously unexplored archives of the Fulbright Commission, relevant US and Australian government departments, and the reports and oral history of participating academics (Fulbright alumni), the study weaves institutional and individual experiences together with broader geopolitical issues. The result is a complex and nuanced analysis that, with its concentration on the particulars of the Australia-US relationship, brings fresh insights to current understandings of the global influence of the Fulbright Program. This study engages with the fields of US and Australian diplomatic history, including cultural diplomacy, education history, politics, Cold War, the war in Vietnam and the history of international philanthropic organisations and scholarly networks. It will also be of great interest to Fulbright alumni and personnel in participating countries around the world.

DKK 804.00
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Bodies Complexioned - Mark (lecturer In Early Modern History At The Australian National University Canberra) Dawson - Bog - Manchester University

Bodies Complexioned - Mark (lecturer In Early Modern History At The Australian National University Canberra) Dawson - Bog - Manchester University

Skin-tones mattered in early modern England. Indexing health, social status, religious affiliation and national allegiance, they helped explain (away) poverty, colonialism, war and slavery. Drawing physical distinctions as a means to power has a complex history – one belying racism’s assumption that such distinctions are natural or timeless. -- .

DKK 766.00
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Imperial Spaces - Lindsay J. Proudfoot - Bog - Manchester University Press - Plusbog.dk

Imperial Spaces - Lindsay J. Proudfoot - Bog - Manchester University Press - Plusbog.dk

mperial 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.

DKK 804.00
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Labour and the Politics of Empire - Neville Kirk - Bog - Manchester University Press - Plusbog.dk

Labour and the Politics of Empire - Neville Kirk - Bog - Manchester University Press - Plusbog.dk

This is a pathbreaking comparative and trans-national study of the neglected influences of nation, empire and race upon the development and electoral fortunes of the Labour Party in Britain and the Australian Labor Party from their formative years of the 1900s to the elections of 2010. Based upon extensive primary and secondary source-based research in Britain and Australia over several years, it makes a new and original contribution to the fields of labour, imperial and ''British world'' history. The book offers the challenging conclusion that the forces of nation, empire and race exerted much greater influence upon Labour politics in both countries than suggested by ''traditionalists'' and ''revisionists'' alike. The book will appeal to undergraduates, postgraduates, scholars in history and politics and all those interested in and concerned with the past, present and future of Labour politics in Britain, Australia and more generally.

DKK 804.00
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Labour and the Politics of Empire - Neville Kirk - Bog - Manchester University Press - Plusbog.dk

Labour and the Politics of Empire - Neville Kirk - Bog - Manchester University Press - Plusbog.dk

This is a pathbreaking comparative and trans-national study of the neglected influences of nation, empire and race upon the development and electoral fortunes of the Labour Party in Britain and the Australian Labor Party from their formative years of the 1900s to the elections of 2010. Based upon extensive primary and secondary source-based research in Britain and Australia over several years, it makes a new and original contribution to the fields of labour, imperial and ''British world'' history. The book offers the challenging conclusion that the forces of nation, empire and race exerted much greater influence upon Labour politics in both countries than suggested by ''traditionalists'' and ''revisionists'' alike. The book will appeal to undergraduates, postgraduates, scholars in history and politics and all those interested in and concerned with the past, present and future of Labour politics in Britain, Australia and more generally.

DKK 273.00
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Intervention and State-Building in the Pacific - - Bog - Manchester University Press - Plusbog.dk

Intervention and State-Building in the Pacific - - Bog - Manchester University Press - Plusbog.dk

State-building intervention in weak, war-torn or failing states has become a priority for the international community. However, the question of how to legitimately engage in the shaping of national governance remains, at the very least, a vexed one. This book explores this key issue through a critical examination of a new model of state-building intervention which has recently emerged in relation to the Pacific ''arc of crisis''. Initiated by the Australian Government in 2003, this ''cooperative intervention'' doctrine, built on declared principles of partnership and respect for sovereignty, seems to offer a legitimate way to engage in state-building intervention. Drawing on a group of distinguished Pacific specialists, this book mounts a critique of these claims, showing how international legitimacy does not automatically translate into political legitimacy among those in the affected societies; and how the attempt to legitimise the intervention internationally may actually work against such legitimacy in the recipient state. These insights will be of value to those interested in public policy studies, international law, development studies and international relations.

DKK 848.00
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Gender, Migration and the Global Race for Talent - Anna Boucher - Bog - Manchester University Press - Plusbog.dk

Gender, Migration and the Global Race for Talent - Anna Boucher - Bog - Manchester University Press - Plusbog.dk

The race in the labour market to attract skilled immigrants seeks the best workers on a global scale. In the pursuit of these individuals, governments may incidentally discriminate on gender grounds. Gender, migration and the global race for talent presents the first book-length account of the global race for talent from a gender perspective.Existing gendered differences in the global labour market relate to life course trajectories and pay gaps. Gendered divisions in occupational specialisation are also present in skilled immigration selection policies. This book analyses the gendered terrain of skilled immigration policies across twelve countries and thirty seven skilled immigration visas. It argues that while skilled immigration policies are often gendered, this outcome is not inevitable and that governments possess considerable scope in policy design. Explaining the reasons why governments adopt more or less gender aware skilled immigration policies, it brings attention to the engagement of feminist groups and ethnocultural organisations in the policy process. It draws upon 128 elite interviews undertaken with representatives of these organisations, as well as government officials, parliamentarians, trade unions and business associations in Australia and Canada over the period 1988-2013.Gender, migration and the global race for talent will be read by students, academics, policy-makers and practitioners in the fields of immigration studies, political science, public policy, sociology and gender studies, as well as Australian and Canadian studies.

DKK 804.00
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Venomous Encounters - Peter Hobbins - Bog - Manchester University Press - Plusbog.dk

Venomous Encounters - Peter Hobbins - Bog - Manchester University Press - Plusbog.dk

If accidental snakebites killed many white settlers and their domestic creatures in colonial Australia, far more animal deaths were deliberate. Venomous encounter s details the ways in which the study of snakes and their venoms led to widespread adoption of vivisection across the Australian colonies, from 1788 until the First World War. Forcing direct bites or injections upon dogs and fowls, pigs and cattle, both lay antidote sellers and medical practitioners participated in this culture of experiment. Indeed, in 1881 the Colony of Victoria became the second legislature worldwide to formally regulate the conduct of vivisection. Yet this colonial circumstance - including its protracted exchanges with British India and mid-century America - has largely been ignored in the historiography of scientific medicine and animal welfare.Drawing upon archives, museums and the burgeoning intercolonial print culture, this book traces how ideas about the nature of snakes were transformed by competing variants of 'scientific medicine'. Elaborating how data from animals was extrapolated into human medicine, it also interrogates shifting conceptions of venom, from a conduit for serpentine malevolence to a putative 'virus', living germinal matter or a complex biochemical cocktail. Venomous encounters furthermore elaborates how the nature and behaviour of individual animals - especially snakes and dogs - shaped the style and conduct of the nascent fields of experimental physiology, toxicology and immunology. Venomous encounters is an invaluable resource for historians and students to reconsider how we understand the colonial encounter, human-animal relationships and the rise of modern medicine.

DKK 804.00
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A History of the New Zealand Fiction Feature Film - Bruce Babington - Bog - Manchester University Press - Plusbog.dk

A History of the New Zealand Fiction Feature Film - Bruce Babington - Bog - Manchester University Press - Plusbog.dk

A history of the New Zealand fiction feature film is the only comprehensive account of the New Zealand feature film from its beginnings to the present. Countering tendencies to think of New Zealand film as beginning in the 1970s, Bruce Babington discloses a longer saga showing how the present, for all its difference, can only be understood through the past: Gaston Méliès'' New Zealand films of 1912, Tarr''s Hinemoa, the first feature made by a New Zealander, early Australian film makers'' use of New Zealand for an Australasian audience, the English and American made ''Maoriland'' films of the late 1920s and early 1930s, and the crucial works of New Zealand film''s two great father figures, Rudall Hayward and John O''Shea. Such cornerstones of the national cinema as The Te Kooti Trail, My Lady of the Cave, Rewi''s Last Stand (1940), Broken Barrier, Runaway and Don''t Let It Get You are analysed in detail. Babington surveys the internationally popular films of recent years, from Murphy''s and Donaldson''s, through to those of Reid, Preston, Campion, Ward, Jackson, Caro, Jeffs, Sinclair, Barclay and others, along with recent low-cost digitals, and Maori feature film making, allowing the book to become a reference map of the cinema, its genres, and its preoccupations, while at the same time giving fascinating detailed analysis of important texts. A history of the New Zealand fiction feature film is essential reading for all students and followers of New Zealand cinema as well as those interested in the local post-colonial culture and its products.

DKK 229.00
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