An Ocean of Leisure: Early cruise tours of the Pacific in an age of empire

Steel, Frances

doi:10.1353/cch.2013.0019

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“…During the lifespan of the Soviet Union, the world behind the iron curtain attracted denizens of the Australian left (Fitzpatrick & Rasmussen, ; McNair, ). Closer to home, the Pacific found favour with real and armchair tourists, seducing Australians with the promise of a tropical exotic (Halter, ; Johnston, ; Kuttainen & Liebich, ; Steel, ). Transpacific steamships also funnelled travellers to the United States (Steel, , ).…”

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Reading Australian modernity: Unsettled settlers and cultures of mobility

Rees

2017

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What did Australian modernity look like? Over the last two decades, Australia's entrenched reputation for ‘cultural belatedness’ has been displaced by the study of ‘colonial modernity’. No longer beholden to the idea that a singular modernity was disseminated from core to periphery, scholars now speak of many localised modernities that arose across colonial and provincial sites. According to this new ‘multiple modernities’ paradigm, Australia was home to its own home‐grown incarnation of modern life. But what was distinctively ‘Australian’ about Australian modernity? Although widely discussed in recent historiography, scholars have yet to delineate its distinguishing features. This article posits mobility as a central component of the Australian modern. Drawing upon new scholarship in settler colonial studies and transnational history, it argues that early twentieth‐century Australia was home to intense cultures of both domestic and global mobility that were entangled with the geographies and anxieties of the settler colonial project. It shows how the nation's ‘unsettled settlers’ also became its chief agents of modernity, and in doing so draws together several strands in recent historiography. Although mobility also signified modernity beyond Australia, it was within this settler colonial nation tyrannised by distance that the modern appetite for motion reached especial heights.

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Reading Australian modernity: Unsettled settlers and cultures of mobility

Rees

2017

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“…By 1899 New Caledonia was included in the circuit itineraries of steamship companies touring Pacific islands from Sydney. 57 These travellers' movement and mobility on board powerful steamers effectively became an assertion of Australian and New Zealand settler cultural superiority and confidence.…”

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Settling Scores in New Caledonia and Australia: French Convictism and Settler Legitimacy

Neilson

2018

Aus J of Politics History

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This article explores the entanglements of Australia and New Caledonia as settler colonies with convict histories. Existing historiography focuses on the importance of the Australian model in inspiring the French to transport convicts to settler colonies, and has explored the moral panic that erupted over the menace of escaped French convicts invading the Australian colonies after the abolition of British convict transportation. My analysis shifts the focus onto the construction of settler colonial authority, analysing the ways in which comparisons drawn by contemporary observers of New Caledonia and Australia served primarily to solidify the legitimacy of settler rule in Australia and increase its regional hegemony into the first few decades of the twentieth century. Drawing on original French and English‐language sources, including the writing of the obscure French convict poet Julien de Sanary, this article makes the case for understanding New Caledonia and its bagne not as unwanted reminders of Australia’s penal origins, but rather as useful sites of projection for settlers in Australia. Constant arguments about the archaic and authoritarian nature of French penal policy and colonialism helped erase the memory of convictism and strengthen settler authority and legitimacy in Australia and internationally. By considering the trans‐imperial entanglements of Australia and New Caledonia, we can further reveal the dynamics of settler colonialism and the processes of disavowal and disassociation that sustain it.

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Subversive Seas

Alexanderson

2019

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An Ocean of Leisure: Early cruise tours of the Pacific in an age of empire

Cited by 16 publications

References 18 publications

Reading Australian modernity: Unsettled settlers and cultures of mobility

Reading Australian modernity: Unsettled settlers and cultures of mobility

Settling Scores in New Caledonia and Australia: French Convictism and Settler Legitimacy

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