Austin Gee
Biographic Data
| ID | 3885722 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Austin Gee |
| GIVEN NAMES | Austin |
| FAMILY NAME | Gee |
| SIGNATURE | GEE A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Otago |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 7 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2003 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Small state or minor power? New Zealand’s Five Eyes membership, intelligence reforms, and Wellington’s response to China’s growing Pacific role
This article uses the lens of small state theory to assess New Zealand’s role in the Five Eyes Alliance and Wellington’s implementation of intelligence reforms in the last seven years that are intended to help the country deal with a transformed security environment. In this context, New Zealand decision-makers have become increasingly concerned about growing Chinese influence in the South Pacific region and in New Zealand itself. It is clear tha…
The madding Wheeles of brazen Chariots rag’d; dire was the noise’
The environmental impact of motor vehicles is not a recent phenomenon, it was evident from their earliest years. This was the case in New Zealand, a relatively small though urbanised society, which took up car and motorcycle ownership at a high rate from about 1910 on. This article examines three aspects of the impact of motoring: air, noise and visual pollution. Each was an existing problem to which motor vehicles added a new aspect. As was the …
Debating New Zealand’s foreign relations
For over half a century, the internationally recognised University of Otago Foreign Policy School has annually drawn together a mix of government officials, diplomats, academics, students and members of the general public to discuss issues of international significance. This article considers the establishment of the Foreign Policy School, and analyses its impact on the formulation and implementation of foreign policy between 1966 and 1976. Miche…
Accommodating the motor car
Cities and their inhabitants were obliged to adapt rapidly to the rise of car ownership in the first few decades of the twentieth century; this article examines how one of New Zealand’s most developed urban centres, Dunedin, adapted to motor vehicles in the years 1901–30. Changes to the built environment are considered: new, specialised building types and commercial activities; the resurfacing and realignment of streets; and the introduction of t…
Laying the V ictorians to Rest
This article seeks to integrate the history of the physical aspects of burial practices with the cultural aspects of mourning and bereavement by considering the businesses that catered for the demand created by funerals and mourning in the second half of the nineteenth century. The example of the first major industrial and commercial urban centre to develop in N ew Z ealand, D unedin, is used to show that a range of businesses emerge quickly to c…
Each in his narrow cell for ever laid
This article compares aspects of the design, layout and purpose of a range of historic New Zealand urban cemeteries with the Southern Cemetery in Dunedin. It makes use of recent research conducted for historic conservation reports which has enable detailed comparisons to be made for the first time. The Southern Cemetery survives as a representative example of a modern, urban cemetery of the mid-nineteenth century, though it is unusual in being in…
The British Volunteer Movement 1794-1814
"The significance of the Volunteer Movement during the French wars has been vigorously debated by historians: this book provides the first comprehensive account of the social, political, and military aspects of the movement for nearly a century. Covering infantry, yeomanry cavalry, and armed associations, it studies their formation and recruitment; membership, internal organization, and relations with local authorities; their public image and par…
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The British Volunteer Movement 1794-1814
"The significance of the Volunteer Movement during the French wars has been vigorously debated by historians: this book provides the first comprehensive account of the social, political, and military aspects of the movement for nearly a century. Covering infantry, yeomanry cavalry, and armed associations, it studies their formation and recruitment; membership, internal organization, and relations with local authorities; their public image and par…
Each in his narrow cell for ever laid
This article compares aspects of the design, layout and purpose of a range of historic New Zealand urban cemeteries with the Southern Cemetery in Dunedin. It makes use of recent research conducted for historic conservation reports which has enable detailed comparisons to be made for the first time. The Southern Cemetery survives as a representative example of a modern, urban cemetery of the mid-nineteenth century, though it is unusual in being in…
Laying the V ictorians to Rest
This article seeks to integrate the history of the physical aspects of burial practices with the cultural aspects of mourning and bereavement by considering the businesses that catered for the demand created by funerals and mourning in the second half of the nineteenth century. The example of the first major industrial and commercial urban centre to develop in N ew Z ealand, D unedin, is used to show that a range of businesses emerge quickly to c…
Debating New Zealand’s foreign relations
For over half a century, the internationally recognised University of Otago Foreign Policy School has annually drawn together a mix of government officials, diplomats, academics, students and members of the general public to discuss issues of international significance. This article considers the establishment of the Foreign Policy School, and analyses its impact on the formulation and implementation of foreign policy between 1966 and 1976. Miche…
Accommodating the motor car
Cities and their inhabitants were obliged to adapt rapidly to the rise of car ownership in the first few decades of the twentieth century; this article examines how one of New Zealand’s most developed urban centres, Dunedin, adapted to motor vehicles in the years 1901–30. Changes to the built environment are considered: new, specialised building types and commercial activities; the resurfacing and realignment of streets; and the introduction of t…
The madding Wheeles of brazen Chariots rag’d; dire was the noise’
The environmental impact of motor vehicles is not a recent phenomenon, it was evident from their earliest years. This was the case in New Zealand, a relatively small though urbanised society, which took up car and motorcycle ownership at a high rate from about 1910 on. This article examines three aspects of the impact of motoring: air, noise and visual pollution. Each was an existing problem to which motor vehicles added a new aspect. As was the …
Small state or minor power? New Zealand’s Five Eyes membership, intelligence reforms, and Wellington’s response to China’s growing Pacific role
This article uses the lens of small state theory to assess New Zealand’s role in the Five Eyes Alliance and Wellington’s implementation of intelligence reforms in the last seven years that are intended to help the country deal with a transformed security environment. In this context, New Zealand decision-makers have become increasingly concerned about growing Chinese influence in the South Pacific region and in New Zealand itself. It is clear tha…
Computer Science (3 works) · Economics (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Archaeology (2 works) · Economy (2 works) · Geography (2 works) · Historical and Cultural Archaeology Studies (2 works) · History (2 works) · Island Studies and Pacific Affairs (2 works)