Tony Ballantyne
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 329302 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Tony Ballantyne |
| NOMBRES | Tony |
| APELLIDO | Ballantyne |
| FIRMA | BALLANTYNE T |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Otago |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8317-7749 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 48 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 179 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 47 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 2 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1998 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 5 |
Threads, Entanglements, and the Work of Empire
This response to "Horizontal Threads: Towards an Entangled Spatial History of the Romanov Empire," reflects on shifting approaches to the structure of empires and the power of entanglement as an analytical tool for making sense of the incorporationist work of empire
Education, difference and reform in the Pacific and modern British empire
Education was a crucial transfer point within modern imperial projects; it was a key domain through which relationships between the state, religious institutions, various agents of reform, and Indigenous, colonised and enslaved peoples were negotiated. Exploring a range of case studies, this article highlights the multiple trajectories of colonial education in the modern British empire and the Pacific region, charting both continuities and moment…
The Making and Remaking of Australasia
This book explores the emergence of ‘Australasia’ as a way of thinking about the culture and geography of this region. Although it is frequently understood to apply only to Australia and New Zealand, the concept has a longer and more complicated history. ‘Australasia’ emerged in the mid-18th century in both French and British writing as European empires extended their reach into Asia and the Pacific, and initially held strong links to the Asian c…
Toppling the Past
This article explores some of the recent debates over statues, memorials and cultures of commemoration in New Zealand. These 'statue wars' are particularly focused on explorers, military men, colonial governors, and even Queen Victoria herself, figures who are seen as being deeply implicated in the production of the persistent inequalities and pain that has resulted from colonialism and empire. My analysis particularly focuses on the city of Tūra…
Collecting, colonisation and civic culture in southern New Zealand
Colonial collections played an important dual role: they were key sites from which ideas about cultural difference were theorised and they were also the foundations of public institutions that were central in shaping civic culture. This article explores these dynamics through the history of the Otago Museum and, in particular, the very different types of collecting engaged in by the colonial bookman T. M. Hocken, the anthropologist H. D. Skinner,…
Rereading the Archive and Opening up the Nation-State
Introduction
From Colonial Collection to Tribal Knowledge Base
Herries Beattie began collecting and writing about the history of southern New Zealand during his youth in the 1890s and remained active through to his death in 1972. He was a prolific author, regularly producing books, pamphlets and newspaper columns on the natural history, toponymy, exploration and colonisation of Otago and Southland. He was especially interested in the indigenous traditions of the region and in the development of its principal…
Science, Empire and the European Exploration of the Pacific
Contents: Introduction. Part 1 Visions of the Pacific: 'South Sea' to 'Pacific Ocean', O.H.K Spate Mercator's southern continent: its origins, influence and gradual demise, W.A.R. Richardson Shared vision: Herman Moll and his circle and the Great South Sea, Dennis Reinhartz. Part 2 The Imperial Sciences Of Exploration: Finding the way home: Spanish exploration of the round-trip route across the Pacific Ocean, Harry Kelsey 18th century science and…
Science, Empire and the European Exploration of the Pacific
Entanglements and Disentanglements
The connections between British empire building and its relationships with Europe have been often been overlooked, in part because they have been conceived of as two entirely distinct analytical problems. Using Brexit as its departure point, this article considers some of the key linkages between British engagements with Europe and the construction of its modern empire. While it reflects on the changing significance of relations with Europe in mo…
Pacific Futures
"Moving Texts and "Humane Sentiment
In offering a rereading of imperial humanitarianism, this essay explores the interplay between the functioning of the modern British empire as an extended and dispersed political terrain, the distinctive qualities of paper and print as knowledge technologies, and the centrality of the emotions or 'sentiment' in humanitarian sensibilities. Drawing upon materials from the New Zealand frontier, it suggests that thinking through "moving texts" offers…
Pacific Histories
Introducing the review forum on Nicholas Thomas's Islanders: the Pacific in the age of empire in 2012, Doug Munro observed a turn from scarcity to abundance in general histories of the Pacific.11 D
Remaking the Empire from Newgate
Contesting the Empire of Paper
The chapter first examines some key historical connections between media, communications and politics within the modern British Empire. It then suggests that print and literacy were powerful tools that indigenous and colonised groups could deploy in the face of imperial power. The chapter also demonstrates that thinking through paper and print is a very productive entry point for reassessing the work of empire, which was always 'unfinished busine…
Webs of Empire
Breaking open colonization to reveal tangled cultural and economic networks, Webs of Empire offers new paths into our colonial history. Linking Gore and Chicago, Maori and Asia, India and newspapers, whalers and writing, empire building becomes a spreading web of connected places, people, ideas, and trade. These links question narrow, national stories, while broadening perspectives on the past and the legacies of colonialism that persist today. B…
Empires, Modernisation and Modernities
In examining four recent books, this essay explores some key facets of contemporary scholarship on empire and the making of the modern world. Drawing on Dipesh Chakrabarty’s arguments about the often contingent relationship between modernisation as a set of material and institutional transformations and modernity as a cultural sensibility, it argues that the unfolding of the modern was messy, uneven, and remained in process until the age of decol…
Empires, Modernisation and Modernities
Individuals are eligible for free access to the International Journal for History, Culture and Modernity until 31 December 2021, using access token HCM4U. Click here for more information. The editors of the International Journal for History, Culture and Modernity have created themed issues, containing articles from different issues. Please see all themed issues here. The International Journal for History, Culture and Modernity (HCM) offers a glob…
Mobility, Empire, Colonisation
This article examines the role of mobility in the operation of modern maritime empires and identifies some of the particular ways in which mobility was constituted as a ‘problem’ in debates over colonisation. After briefly mapping a range of ways in which different forms of mobility underwrote the processes of empire, the article turns to the colony of Otago. It sketches how arguments about the meaning of different types of movement played out in…
Strategic Intimacies
This essay brings together two problematics that have occupied a central position in recent scholarship on modern British empire-building: colonial knowledge and the history of intimacy. Thinking about the inter-relationship between close encounters of empire and the production of colonial knowledge is not really a leap of the imagination
Race and the Webs of Empire
Archives, Empires and Histories of Colonialism
Webs of Empire
"Positions New Zealand within these 'webs of empire', connecting Gore and Chicago, Māori and Asia, India and newspapers, whalers and writing. His work breaks open the narrative of colonisation to offer sharp new perspectives on New Zealand history"--Back cover
Disputed Histories
Introduction: Angles of Vision 1 Retrievable Time: Prehistoric Colonisation of South polynesia from the Outside In and the Inside Out 2 Leadership in Ancient Polynesia 3 Asia in Murihiku: Towards a Transnational History of a Colonial Culture 4 'In-Between' Lives: Studies from within a colonial Frontier 5 Marriage and family on the Colonial Frontier 6 Is there a Good Case for New Zealand Exceptionalism? 7 Chance Residues: Photographs and Social Hi…
Orientalism and Race
This study traces the emergence and dissemination of Aryanism within the British Empire. The idea of an Aryan race became an important feature of imperial culture in the nineteenth century, feeding in
Bodies in Contact
e live in a world profoundly shaped by cross-cultural encounters, slavery, colonization, and migration.These forces have not only been central in determining the distribution of wealth and power at a global level, but they have also molded the world's demographic profile, dictated where national boundaries have been inscribed, influenced the legal regimes that govern people's lives, and shaped the ways di√erent ethnic, religious, racial, and nati…
Mobility, Empire, Colonisation
This article examines the role of mobility in the operation of modern maritime empires and identifies some of the particular ways in which mobility was constituted as a ‘problem’ in debates over colonisation. After briefly mapping a range of ways in which different forms of mobility underwrote the processes of empire, the article turns to the colony of Otago. It sketches how arguments about the meaning of different types of movement played out in…
The Changing Shape of the Modern British Empire and Its Historiography
This historiographical review assesses recent studies of the development of the modern British empire. It appraises works that explore the transformation of the empire, its changing cultural pattern, and the forces that radically reshaped the empire during the twentieth century. I argue that within the clear shift towards cultural interpretations of the imperial past, three main areas of analytical concern have taken shape: the importance of info…
Paper, Pen, and Print
Knowledge has become a central problematic in recent work on cross-cultural encounters and the processes of empire building. In an array of contexts-from Spanish America to colonial South Africa, from Ireland to occupied Egypt, the American West to British India-anthropologists and historians have highlighted the ways in which 'colonial knowledge' facilitated trade, the extraction of rent and taxes, conversion, and outright conquest. This scholar…
Humanitarian Narratives
This essay offers a reassessment of the connections between missionary work and empire building. It focuses on the role of 'humanitarian narratives' in soliciting sympathy amongst British evangelicals and humanitarians for the 'suffering' of Maori during the 1820s and 1830s. Exploring the nature and influence of these narratives not only allows the historian to explore the connections between the empire and British metropolitan culture and politi…
Race and the Webs of Empire
Journal of Colonialism and Colonial History - Volume 2, Number 3, Winter 2001
Strategic Intimacies
This essay brings together two problematics that have occupied a central position in recent scholarship on modern British empire-building: colonial knowledge and the history of intimacy. Thinking about the inter-relationship between close encounters of empire and the production of colonial knowledge is not really a leap of the imagination
Toppling the Past
This article explores some of the recent debates over statues, memorials and cultures of commemoration in New Zealand. These 'statue wars' are particularly focused on explorers, military men, colonial governors, and even Queen Victoria herself, figures who are seen as being deeply implicated in the production of the persistent inequalities and pain that has resulted from colonialism and empire. My analysis particularly focuses on the city of Tūra…
Religion, Difference, and the Limits of British Imperial History
The following books are under consideration in this review: Imperial Bibles, Domestic Bodies: Women, Sexuality, and Religion in the Victorian Market, by Mary Wilson Carpenter; pp. xxii + 206. Athens: Ohio University Press, 2003, $39.95. Missionary Women: Gender, Professionalism and the Victorian Idea of Christian Mission, by Rhonda Anne Semple; pp. xvii + 285. Woodbridge, UK, and Rochester, NY: Boydell Press, 2003, £60.00, $110.00. The Imperial H…
British Society for the History of Science. Report of Council for the year 1996
Objects The primary objective for which the Society is established is to promote and further the study of the history and philosophy of science. Secondary objectives include the provision of facilities, the arrangement of meetings, the promotion of research and the publishing of papers; full details of all the objectives may be found in the Society's Memorandum of Association . Policies The main policy of the Society is to provide the infrastruct…
Race and the Webs of Empire
Journal of Colonialism and Colonial History - Volume 2, Number 3, Winter 2001
The Emergence of Aryanism
Over the last decade, historians have increasingly identified the mid-eighteenth century as a period in which both the British empire and British identities underwent rapid redefinition. Popular imperialism and strident nationalism are no longer seen as the sui generis products of the Victorian age, as recent research has delineated increasingly aggressive imperial ideologies articulated by Britons from the conclusion of the Seven Years War throu…
Print, Literacy and the Recasting of Maori Identities
Thus far, this study has charted the emergence of Indocentric frame-works for the analysis of Polynesian, but especially Maori, culture and history. As we have seen, complex webs of correspondence and emerging patterns of institutional exchange spanned disparate parts of the British empire (and reached out into other imperial and institutional knowledge systems), integrating scholars in the United Kingdom, Ireland, South Asia, the Malay peninsula…
‘Hello Ganesha!’
Whereas the previous chapter established divergent trends in the representation of Indian and Polynesian religion until the 1850s, this chapter examines the subsequent emergence of Indocentric, or more specifically Hindu-centred, interpretations of Maori religion. From the 1850s there was a marked shift in Pakeha and British understandings of Maori culture as the ‘discourse of negation’ examined in Chapter 3 was undermined. Pakeha increasingly be…
Conclusion
This study has demonstrated the centrality of Aryanism in British imperial culture, not only in British India, but also in South-East Asia, the Pacific and Britain itself. Within the British empire in the long nineteenth century Aryanism became a crucial heuristic device in colonial politics, popular journalism and imperial ethnology. Sir William Jones’s ethnological essays, which insisted on a common cultural genealogy shared by Indians and Euro…
Indocentrism on the New Zealand Frontier
This chapter examines a series of cultural connections and intellectual exchanges between India and the Pacific that have been elided by historians of empire as well as being neglected within the historiography of individual colonies. From the early nineteenth century, Orientalist learning played a central role in the development of Pacific studies, providing comparative evidence, analytical frameworks and methodological insights that were embrac…
The Politics of Language, Nation and Race
Although nineteenth-century India and New Zealand both gave rise to anti-colonial movements, the social sources and political ideologies of Indian and Maori anti-colonialism were markedly different. Where the previous chapter established that Maori countered British and Pakeha anthropological theories about their origins with historical and spiritual narratives fashioned out of an active appropriation of scriptural literacy, British Orientalist k…
Introduction
Eric Wolf’s insistence that historical writing should unravel the ‘bundles of relationships’ that constituted the past underpins this study of the complex networks that constituted the British empire. Wolf’s quotation continues to resonate today as, despite increasing calls for transnational and global histories, most historical writing continues to treat nations, cultures and societies as abstract and bounded entities. Despite the work of histor…
Systematizing Religion
So far this study has focused on the relationship between race and language within debates over Aryanism, tracing the rise of Company Orientalism, the dissemination of ethnological models from British India throughout the empire, and the ways in which Aryanism reshaped a range of colonial identities, ideologies and institutions. In this chapter, my analysis shifts to focus on ‘religion’, a key but often neglected problematic within histories of c…
The Oxford History of the British Empire
Journal of Colonialism and Colonial History - Volume 3, Number 2, Fall 2002
Orientalism and Race
This study traces the emergence and dissemination of Aryanism within the British Empire. The idea of an Aryan race became an important feature of imperial culture in the nineteenth century, feeding in
Introduction
Debating Empire1 Tony Ballantyne This special issue, dedicated to assessing David Cannadine’s Ornamentalism: How the British Saw Their Empire, is part of the ongoing debate over British imperialism that engages scholars, activists, and various communities in many parts of the world. The sources, nature and legacies of British imperialism have been the subject of renewed interest over the last decade and the question of empire has come to occupy a…
Postscript
Religion, Difference, and the Limits of British Imperial History
The following books are under consideration in this review: Imperial Bibles, Domestic Bodies: Women, Sexuality, and Religion in the Victorian Market, by Mary Wilson Carpenter; pp. xxii + 206. Athens: Ohio University Press, 2003, $39.95. Missionary Women: Gender, Professionalism and the Victorian Idea of Christian Mission, by Rhonda Anne Semple; pp. xvii + 285. Woodbridge, UK, and Rochester, NY: Boydell Press, 2003, £60.00, $110.00. The Imperial H…
Bodies in Contact
e live in a world profoundly shaped by cross-cultural encounters, slavery, colonization, and migration.These forces have not only been central in determining the distribution of wealth and power at a global level, but they have also molded the world's demographic profile, dictated where national boundaries have been inscribed, influenced the legal regimes that govern people's lives, and shaped the ways di√erent ethnic, religious, racial, and nati…
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Orientalism, Empire and National Culture
Reviewed by: Orientalism, Empire and National Culture: India, 1770–1880 Tony Ballantyne (bio) Orientalism, Empire and National Culture: India, 1770–1880, by Michael S. Dodson; pp. xiv + 268. Basingstoke and New York: Palgrave, 2007, £56.00, $84.95. Substantial attention has been devoted to the nature and development of "colonial knowledge" in recent work on British colonial authority in South Asia. Literary scholars, anthropologists, historians, …
The Changing Shape of the Modern British Empire and Its Historiography
This historiographical review assesses recent studies of the development of the modern British empire. It appraises works that explore the transformation of the empire, its changing cultural pattern, and the forces that radically reshaped the empire during the twentieth century. I argue that within the clear shift towards cultural interpretations of the imperial past, three main areas of analytical concern have taken shape: the importance of info…
Genesis 1
Genesis 1:28 and the Languages of Colonial Improvement in Victorian New Zealand Tony Ballantyne (bio) Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth. — kjv Gen. 1:28 The Bible was the single most important cultural text in colonial New Zealand. While a substantial body of scholarship has recognized t…
Humanitarian Narratives
This essay offers a reassessment of the connections between missionary work and empire building. It focuses on the role of 'humanitarian narratives' in soliciting sympathy amongst British evangelicals and humanitarians for the 'suffering' of Maori during the 1820s and 1830s. Exploring the nature and influence of these narratives not only allows the historian to explore the connections between the empire and British metropolitan culture and politi…
Paper, Pen, and Print
Knowledge has become a central problematic in recent work on cross-cultural encounters and the processes of empire building. In an array of contexts-from Spanish America to colonial South Africa, from Ireland to occupied Egypt, the American West to British India-anthropologists and historians have highlighted the ways in which 'colonial knowledge' facilitated trade, the extraction of rent and taxes, conversion, and outright conquest. This scholar…
Race and the Webs of Empire
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