Western Australia in the Indian Ocean World: Studies in Western Australian History 28 edited by Ruth Morgan, Cecilia Leong-Salobir and Jeremy Martens

Book Description

Secondhand. Near fine condition.

This volume recognizes the renewed local and global interest in the Indian Ocean and its history. It seeks to stimulate further work on the connections between the western third of Australia and this arena.

Contents:

1. Western Australia in the Indian Ocean world - a land looking west? by Ruth A Morgan
2. Naval gazes: HMS ;Challenger', Swan River and the Indian Ocean world c.1832 by Cindy McCreery
3. Letters across the Indian Ocean: Imagining empire in the private writing of the Prinsep family, 1866 - 1922 by Malcolm Allbrook
4. Pioneering the dictation test?: The creation and administration of Western Australia's immigration restriction act, 1897-1901 by Jeremy Martens
5. 'Most painful and humiliating': The surveillance of Sher Mohamad by Margaret Allen
6. Welcoming the 'wild men of Borneo': South Asia, Africa and the pursuit of a 'publicity payoff' at the 1962 British Empire and Commonwealth games by Michael Dawson
7. Rediscovering an Indian Ocean connection: Commemorating HMAS Sydney and HSK Kormoran on the West Australian coast by Damien Williams
8. Indian Ocean cuisine?: Outline of an argument on the limits of national cultures by Krishnendu Ray
9. Sovereign (dis)embodiments: Popular politics in the aftermath of the war in Sri Lanka by Sumugan Sivanesan