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Historical Studies | Australian History (excl. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander History) | History: Australian |
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 03-07-2022
Publisher: Routledge
Date: 14-12-2007
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 17-07-2014
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 03-2012
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 06-1999
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 22-10-2010
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 03-01-2020
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 02-01-2016
Publisher: University of California Press
Date: 2018
Abstract: This article is the guest editors’ introduction to a special volume of Pacific Historical Review entitled “Protection: Global Genealogies, Local Practices.” Guest editors Christina Twomey and Katherine Ellinghaus argue that the global discourse of protection had a strong presence beyond British humanitarian circles and a longer chronological and larger geographical reach than historians have previously noted. Articles in the special volume include Christina Twomey’s examination of protection as a concept with its origins in European, rather than British, colonialism, Trevor Burnard’s study of the Protectors of slaves in Berbice in the early to mid-nineteenth century, Goolam Vahed’s analysis of the Protectors appointed to lobby on behalf of immigrant Indian indentured labourers in late nineteenth century Natal, Rachel Standfield’s investigation of the use of language in Protectorates in Australia and New Zealand in the 1840s, Amanda Nettelbeck’s exploration of the concept of Aboriginal vagrancy in Australia in the 1840s, and Katherine Ellinghaus’s comparison of the discourse of protection in policies of exemption and competency utlised in Oklahoma and New South Wales in the 1940s and 1950s.
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 03-04-2017
Publisher: Cambridge University Press (CUP)
Date: 2023
DOI: 10.1017/S014754792300008X
Abstract: The privatized nature of employment as a domestic servant is often inimical to collective action. Yet in the early 1960s there was significant trade union interest in the working conditions of female domestic servants in Singapore and Malaya. Studies of female domestic service in Malaya (later Malaysia) and Singapore are dominated by work focusing on Chinese-born servants before the Second World War, and migrant maids associated with economic transformation from the late 1970s. If scholarship on pre-war domestic servants leans toward an emphasis on agency, then studies of maids from the 1980s tend toward experiences of abjection. What of the intervening period, during the Cold War, when rapid decolonization introduced new factors into the demography, structure, and regulation of domestic service in Malaysia and Singapore? Did this provide opportunity for greater autonomy, mimic older colonial relationships, or herald new protections for domestic servants in the modern postcolonial state? The considerable historical literature devoted to the relationship between imperial power, colonialism, and domestic service rarely extends to the persistence and dynamics of domestic service in the era of decolonization between the 1950s and the 1970s, although it does explore the increasing feminization of the occupation. This article explores a confluence of factors—the politics of anticolonialism, economic dependence, and apprehension about the privacy of the home—that cohered in a controversy in the 1960s known as the “amah strike,” when female domestic servants in Singapore and Malaya threatened to walk off the job over a proposed change to their employment conditions.
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
Date: 1997
DOI: 10.2307/27516508
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 11-2009
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 08-2012
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 04-05-2015
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 28-06-2013
Abstract: This article reflects on the place of prisoners of war of the Japanese in Australian memory of World War II. It examines the return to prominence of prisoners of war memory in the 1980s and places this phenomenon in the context of the memory boom and the attention accorded to difficult or traumatic memories. By exploring the relationship between Australian war memories and debates about Indigenous suffering, it suggests that cosmopolitan memory cultures form an important conceptual link between them. Recognising prisoners of war memory as an ex le of traumatic memory allows us to move beyond an analysis bounded by the nation state, and to argue that instead of seeing it as emerging in competition with other contemporary memories focused on the suffering of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, it shares some elements in common with them.
Publisher: University of California Press
Date: 2018
Abstract: The historiography on protection in the nineteenth-century British Empire often assumes that British humanitarians were the progenitors of protection schemes. In contrast, this article argues that the position of Protector or Guardian for slaves and Indigenous peoples in the British Empire drew on Spanish, Dutch, and French legal precedents. The legal protections and slave codes operative in these European colonies are compared to British colonial territories, where there was no imperial slave code and no clear status of slaves at common law. Drawing on debates in the House of Commons, Parliamentary Commissions of Inquiry, and the published work of abolitionists and anti-slavery societies, the article examines how the pressure for amelioration in the British Empire coincided with the acquisition of new colonies that offered ready-made models for slave protection. British reformers combined their calls for greater protection for slaves with their extant knowledge of European protective regimes.
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 04-05-2014
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 03-2006
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 10-2004
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 09-2013
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 04-1997
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 06-2007
Start Date: 2010
End Date: 2014
Funder: Australian Research Council
View Funded ActivityStart Date: 2010
End Date: 2012
Funder: Australian Research Council
View Funded ActivityStart Date: 2011
End Date: 2015
Funder: Australian Research Council
View Funded ActivityStart Date: 2015
End Date: 2019
Funder: Australian Research Council
View Funded ActivityStart Date: 2010
End Date: 12-2012
Amount: $147,000.00
Funder: Australian Research Council
View Funded ActivityStart Date: 05-2012
End Date: 10-2018
Amount: $722,612.00
Funder: Australian Research Council
View Funded ActivityStart Date: 03-2016
End Date: 07-2021
Amount: $392,572.00
Funder: Australian Research Council
View Funded ActivityStart Date: 01-2011
End Date: 05-2016
Amount: $509,854.00
Funder: Australian Research Council
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