Frances Steel
Biographic Data
| ID | 124602 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Frances Steel |
| GIVEN NAMES | Frances |
| FAMILY NAME | Steel |
| SIGNATURE | STEEL F |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Wollongong |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7240-1530 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 20 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 14 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 20 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Tracks on the Ocean: A History of Trailblazing, Maps, and Maritime Travel
Food, Empire, and Mobility: An Introduction
Imperial and global histories of commodity and food trades predominantly emphasize a South-to-North orientation. This emphasis has tended to obscure lateral networks between colonies and smaller-scale geographies of exchange, particularly across the tropics. The five articles in this special issue address different ways in which food production, trade, and consumption evolved under colonial influence across Asia, Australia, and the Pacific, and v…
Beyond the Urban Kitchen: Refrigeration and Domesticity across Australia and the Pacific Islands, 1920s–1940s
Histories of the rise of domestic refrigeration conventionally situate the appliance within the urban household. An emphasis on the spread of electrification and notions of idealized femininity, abundance, and scientific home management together attribute an emblematic “Americanness” to the refrigerator. Moving beyond the confines of the urban kitchen to rural and tropical regions of Australia and across the island Pacific, this article examines …
Fae Dussart. In the Service of Empire: Domestic Service and Mastery in Metropole and Colony
Journal Article Fae Dussart. In the Service of Empire: Domestic Service and Mastery in Metropole and Colony Get access Fae Dussart. In the Service of Empire: Domestic Service and Mastery in Metropole and Colony. New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2022. Pp. 241. Paper $39.95. Frances Steel Frances Steel University of Otago, New Zealand Email: [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The America…
The Pacific in the Age of Steam, Undersea Cables, and Wireless Telegraphy, 1860–1930
At the heart of this chapter lies a set of interdependent technologies whose development and application had remarkable global resonance and reach. Steamships, undersea cables, and wireless telegraphy rose to prominence during an era of heightened imperial expansion and rivalry from the second half of the nineteenth century. These industrial technologies of transport and communications that developed in distant metropoles are generally argued to …
Australia and the Pacific: A History
Waitresses at sea: Gender, Race and Service Labour on Ocean Liners, c.1930s-1960s
Service labour on ships was feminised, but it was monopolised by men. Besides the limited role of the stewardess, women were not employed in general service positions until the 1930s when they began to be hired as waitresses in place of male dining-room stewards. This article considers the conditions of possibility for American and British lines recruiting white women in preference to men. This occurred at two significant junctures. Firstly, duri…
An Ocean's Embrace
Decades after history’s oceanic turn, connections across oceans still tend to be imagined as links connecting shore communities. The Southern Ocean rather confounds such approaches. Crossing this o
Pacific Futures: Past and Present
Introduction: On the critical importance of colonial formations
In 1921 the National Geographic Magazine published a special issue on 'The Islands of the Pacific'. Richly illustrated with photographs, as was the hallmark of the magazine, the issue also featured a map produced as a special colour supplement (see Figure 1). In his introductory essay for the edition, J.P. Thomson, C.B.E., LL.D., who was the Honorary Secretary and Treasurer of the Royal Geographical Society of Australasia, referred readers direct…
Servant mobilities between Fiji and New Zealand: The transcolonial politics of domestic work and immigration restriction, c.1870–1920
In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Europeans travelling beyond Fiji were often accompanied by Melanesian, Indian or Indigenous Fijian servants. Occasionally, families resident in the Australasian settler colonies also hired servants, mostly men, from Fiji. This article traces such patterns of transcolonial domestic labour mobility, and highlights instances of servants challenging employer controls and seeking out more autonomou…
Anglo-worlds in transit: Connections and frictions across the Pacific
The emerging cultures of late nineteenth-century steamship mobility can be distinguished broadly by ocean basin and by specific route. In the Pacific, a steamship connection between Sydney and San Francisco was envisaged to forge and sustain strong bonds between regional ‘branches’ of the Anglo-Saxon race. This article moves beyond the rhetorical purchase of assumed affinities, to explore the more layered ways in which difference was articulated …
Re-Routing Empire? Steam-Age Circulations and the Making of an Anglo Pacific, c.1850–90
The introduction of steam not only enhanced Australia's transport links within the empire. It also altered attitudes towards the feasibility and desirability of transpacific connectivities, and brought new prominence to the Pacific-orientations of Australia's eastern colonies. By envisioning steam-age connections across the Pacific, first to Panama and then to San Francisco, Australia sought to imagine and situate itself in a transpacific sphere.…
Cruising New Zealand's West Coast Sounds: Fiord Tourism in the Tasman World c.1870–1910
The hugely popular summer cruise tours of the West Coast Sounds in the South Island of New Zealand reveal a colonial history of leisured mobility and landscape appreciation common to New Zealand and Australia. Cruising the Sounds was a practice imbued with privilege, exclusivity, emotional upliftment and wonder, generating shared attachments to wilderness space. This culture of maritime tourism offers new insights into the mobile practices which …
An Ocean of Leisure: Early cruise tours of the Pacific in an age of empire
In the late nineteenth century, the Union Steam Ship Company of New Zealand (USSCo.) offered a series of cruise tours from the ports of Sydney and Auckland through the islands of the South Pacific. The cruises complemented excursions to the Mediterranean, the "old country" and other "worn lines of pleasure," remarked the Sydney Morning Herald in 1898. They even offered a novel contrast to "doing Japan." Australian settlers had largely ignored the…
A Pacific Industry: The history of pineapple canning in Hawaii. By Richard A. Hawkins
A Pacific Industry: the history of pineapple canning in Hawaii. By Richard A. Hawkins. London and New York, I.B. Tauris, 2011. xiii+273 pp., notes, bibliog., index. ISBN 978-1-84885-596-0. £56.50st
Oceanic Encounters: Exchange, Desire, Violence
Cruising in the Global Economy: Profits, Pleasure and Work at Sea (The International Political Economy of New Regionalisms Series)
Women, Men and the Southern Octopus: Shipboard Gender Relations in the Age of Steam, 1870s–1910s
A Source of Our Wealth, Yet Adverse to Our Health? Butter and the Diet–Heart Link in New Zealand to c.1990
The medical link between dietary saturated fat, serum cholesterol, and arteriosclerosis redefined meanings for butter in New Zealand, from a celebrated dietary staple to a potentially harmful substance to be closely monitored in the diet. The introduction of a nutritionally endorsed butter substitute, polyunsaturated margarine, heightened this shift. This article addresses the ways in which such links are taken up and negotiated outside the medic…
Re-Routing Empire? Steam-Age Circulations and the Making of an Anglo Pacific, c.1850–90
The introduction of steam not only enhanced Australia's transport links within the empire. It also altered attitudes towards the feasibility and desirability of transpacific connectivities, and brought new prominence to the Pacific-orientations of Australia's eastern colonies. By envisioning steam-age connections across the Pacific, first to Panama and then to San Francisco, Australia sought to imagine and situate itself in a transpacific sphere.…
Cruising New Zealand's West Coast Sounds: Fiord Tourism in the Tasman World c.1870–1910
The hugely popular summer cruise tours of the West Coast Sounds in the South Island of New Zealand reveal a colonial history of leisured mobility and landscape appreciation common to New Zealand and Australia. Cruising the Sounds was a practice imbued with privilege, exclusivity, emotional upliftment and wonder, generating shared attachments to wilderness space. This culture of maritime tourism offers new insights into the mobile practices which …
Anglo-worlds in transit: Connections and frictions across the Pacific
The emerging cultures of late nineteenth-century steamship mobility can be distinguished broadly by ocean basin and by specific route. In the Pacific, a steamship connection between Sydney and San Francisco was envisaged to forge and sustain strong bonds between regional ‘branches’ of the Anglo-Saxon race. This article moves beyond the rhetorical purchase of assumed affinities, to explore the more layered ways in which difference was articulated …
Women, Men and the Southern Octopus: Shipboard Gender Relations in the Age of Steam, 1870s–1910s
Australia and the Pacific: A History
Servant mobilities between Fiji and New Zealand: The transcolonial politics of domestic work and immigration restriction, c.1870–1920
In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Europeans travelling beyond Fiji were often accompanied by Melanesian, Indian or Indigenous Fijian servants. Occasionally, families resident in the Australasian settler colonies also hired servants, mostly men, from Fiji. This article traces such patterns of transcolonial domestic labour mobility, and highlights instances of servants challenging employer controls and seeking out more autonomou…
A Source of Our Wealth, Yet Adverse to Our Health? Butter and the Diet–Heart Link in New Zealand to c.1990
The medical link between dietary saturated fat, serum cholesterol, and arteriosclerosis redefined meanings for butter in New Zealand, from a celebrated dietary staple to a potentially harmful substance to be closely monitored in the diet. The introduction of a nutritionally endorsed butter substitute, polyunsaturated margarine, heightened this shift. This article addresses the ways in which such links are taken up and negotiated outside the medic…
Women, Men and the Southern Octopus: Shipboard Gender Relations in the Age of Steam, 1870s–1910s
Cruising in the Global Economy: Profits, Pleasure and Work at Sea (The International Political Economy of New Regionalisms Series)
A Pacific Industry: The history of pineapple canning in Hawaii. By Richard A. Hawkins
A Pacific Industry: the history of pineapple canning in Hawaii. By Richard A. Hawkins. London and New York, I.B. Tauris, 2011. xiii+273 pp., notes, bibliog., index. ISBN 978-1-84885-596-0. £56.50st
Oceanic Encounters: Exchange, Desire, Violence
Cruising New Zealand's West Coast Sounds: Fiord Tourism in the Tasman World c.1870–1910
The hugely popular summer cruise tours of the West Coast Sounds in the South Island of New Zealand reveal a colonial history of leisured mobility and landscape appreciation common to New Zealand and Australia. Cruising the Sounds was a practice imbued with privilege, exclusivity, emotional upliftment and wonder, generating shared attachments to wilderness space. This culture of maritime tourism offers new insights into the mobile practices which …
An Ocean of Leisure: Early cruise tours of the Pacific in an age of empire
In the late nineteenth century, the Union Steam Ship Company of New Zealand (USSCo.) offered a series of cruise tours from the ports of Sydney and Auckland through the islands of the South Pacific. The cruises complemented excursions to the Mediterranean, the "old country" and other "worn lines of pleasure," remarked the Sydney Morning Herald in 1898. They even offered a novel contrast to "doing Japan." Australian settlers had largely ignored the…
Re-Routing Empire? Steam-Age Circulations and the Making of an Anglo Pacific, c.1850–90
The introduction of steam not only enhanced Australia's transport links within the empire. It also altered attitudes towards the feasibility and desirability of transpacific connectivities, and brought new prominence to the Pacific-orientations of Australia's eastern colonies. By envisioning steam-age connections across the Pacific, first to Panama and then to San Francisco, Australia sought to imagine and situate itself in a transpacific sphere.…
Anglo-worlds in transit: Connections and frictions across the Pacific
The emerging cultures of late nineteenth-century steamship mobility can be distinguished broadly by ocean basin and by specific route. In the Pacific, a steamship connection between Sydney and San Francisco was envisaged to forge and sustain strong bonds between regional ‘branches’ of the Anglo-Saxon race. This article moves beyond the rhetorical purchase of assumed affinities, to explore the more layered ways in which difference was articulated …
Pacific Futures: Past and Present
Introduction: On the critical importance of colonial formations
In 1921 the National Geographic Magazine published a special issue on 'The Islands of the Pacific'. Richly illustrated with photographs, as was the hallmark of the magazine, the issue also featured a map produced as a special colour supplement (see Figure 1). In his introductory essay for the edition, J.P. Thomson, C.B.E., LL.D., who was the Honorary Secretary and Treasurer of the Royal Geographical Society of Australasia, referred readers direct…
Servant mobilities between Fiji and New Zealand: The transcolonial politics of domestic work and immigration restriction, c.1870–1920
In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Europeans travelling beyond Fiji were often accompanied by Melanesian, Indian or Indigenous Fijian servants. Occasionally, families resident in the Australasian settler colonies also hired servants, mostly men, from Fiji. This article traces such patterns of transcolonial domestic labour mobility, and highlights instances of servants challenging employer controls and seeking out more autonomou…
An Ocean's Embrace
Decades after history’s oceanic turn, connections across oceans still tend to be imagined as links connecting shore communities. The Southern Ocean rather confounds such approaches. Crossing this o
Waitresses at sea: Gender, Race and Service Labour on Ocean Liners, c.1930s-1960s
Service labour on ships was feminised, but it was monopolised by men. Besides the limited role of the stewardess, women were not employed in general service positions until the 1930s when they began to be hired as waitresses in place of male dining-room stewards. This article considers the conditions of possibility for American and British lines recruiting white women in preference to men. This occurred at two significant junctures. Firstly, duri…
The Pacific in the Age of Steam, Undersea Cables, and Wireless Telegraphy, 1860–1930
At the heart of this chapter lies a set of interdependent technologies whose development and application had remarkable global resonance and reach. Steamships, undersea cables, and wireless telegraphy rose to prominence during an era of heightened imperial expansion and rivalry from the second half of the nineteenth century. These industrial technologies of transport and communications that developed in distant metropoles are generally argued to …
Australia and the Pacific: A History
Fae Dussart. In the Service of Empire: Domestic Service and Mastery in Metropole and Colony
Journal Article Fae Dussart. In the Service of Empire: Domestic Service and Mastery in Metropole and Colony Get access Fae Dussart. In the Service of Empire: Domestic Service and Mastery in Metropole and Colony. New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2022. Pp. 241. Paper $39.95. Frances Steel Frances Steel University of Otago, New Zealand Email: [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The America…
Food, Empire, and Mobility: An Introduction
Imperial and global histories of commodity and food trades predominantly emphasize a South-to-North orientation. This emphasis has tended to obscure lateral networks between colonies and smaller-scale geographies of exchange, particularly across the tropics. The five articles in this special issue address different ways in which food production, trade, and consumption evolved under colonial influence across Asia, Australia, and the Pacific, and v…
Beyond the Urban Kitchen: Refrigeration and Domesticity across Australia and the Pacific Islands, 1920s–1940s
Histories of the rise of domestic refrigeration conventionally situate the appliance within the urban household. An emphasis on the spread of electrification and notions of idealized femininity, abundance, and scientific home management together attribute an emblematic “Americanness” to the refrigerator. Moving beyond the confines of the urban kitchen to rural and tropical regions of Australia and across the island Pacific, this article examines …
Tracks on the Ocean: A History of Trailblazing, Maps, and Maritime Travel
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