An Ocean of Leisure
Early cruise tours of the Pacific in an age of empire
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4549602 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Frances Steel (0000-0001-7240-1530, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2013 |
| Volume | 14 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Publication date | 2013-06-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Colonialism and Colonial History (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1532-5768 • E-ISSN: 1532-5768 |
| Publisher | Project MUSE (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1353/cch.2013.0019 |
| OpenAlex | W1991432228 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 10 |
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 their island neighbours, the newspaper continued, yet the cruise program indicated the range of "splendid holiday resorts" that lay on their doorstep. Although regular trading steamers made the Pacific increasingly accessible, it had been difficult until this point in time to take a "comprehensive trip in the South Seas under the conditions desired by exacting tourists."
Archaeology · Business · Cruise · Economy · Empire · Geography · Newspaper · Pleasure · Political science · Australian History and Society · Engineering · History · Island Studies and Pacific Affairs · Law · Travel Writing and Literature · Oceanography
Sites of desire, economies of pleasure
Empire in Question
Violence and Colonial Dialogue
Island dreaming
Empires, Exceptions, and Anglo-Saxons
No Passport Necessary’
Reinventing Fiji at 19th-century and early 20th-century exhibitions
Nature, Culture and History
Anthropology in the South Seas
Cannibalism and Colonialism
| Unique citing works | 3 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,33 |
| Citation span | 2017 - 2019 (3) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |