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Author:   Peter Limb, PhD
Publisher:   Monash University
Imprint:   Monash University
Edition:   illustrated edition
Dimensions:   Width: 15.50cm , Height: 1.80cm , Length: 23.00cm
Weight:   0.508kg
ISBN:  

9780980361667

ISBN 10:   0980361664
Pages:   296
Publication Date:   01 July 2008
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

"Introduction; Educating Govind Singh: ""Princely character"" & the failure of indirect rule in colonial India; Shepstone in love: The other Victorian in an African colonial administrator; The irregular progress of empire: Lord Chelmsford & the Zulu War; Tethered antipodes: Imperial impress in central Perth, Western Australia; King Shaka, the diviners & colonialism; George McCall Theal & South African history textbooks: Enduring influence of settler historiography in descriptions of the fifth ""Frontier War"" 1818-19; The subaltern's orb & sceptre: Early ANC leaders & the British World; Disturbing & most poisonous agitations"": Henry Parkes, Populism & the Usurpation of Law in New South Wales, 1888; The business of empire: The Fujian tea industry & trade through the eyes of Jardine, Matheson & Co., 1928-39; Little worlds: Australian zoological gardens; ""My empire, not merely yours"": Australian conservatives & their imperial worlds; Till death do us part? Commercial TV, changing family values & Queen Elizabeth II's Commonwealth; Norman Etherington: A bibliography of publications & printed public addresses; Index."

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Peter Limb received his PhD from the University of Western Australia. He is Associate Professor (Adjunct) in the History Department at Michigan State University, where he is also Africana Bibliographer. His books include Nelson Mandela: A Biography (Greenwood, 2008), Digital Dilemmas and Solutions (Chandos, 2004), and, with Norman Etherington and Peter Midgely, Indigenous Responses to Colonialism (Brill, forthcoming). He has also written on Australian historian Fred Alexander and the history of the Australian antiapartheid movement.

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