"Imperial Spaces" takes two of the most influential minority groups of white settlers in the British Empire -- the Irish and the Scots -- and explores how they imagined themselves within the landscapes of its farthest reaches, the Australian colonies of Victoria and New South Wales. Using letters and diaries as well as records of collective activities such as committee meetings, parades, and dinners, the book examines how the Irish and Scottish built new identities as settlers in the unknown spaces of Empire. Utilizing critical geographical theories of "place" as the site of memory and...
"Imperial Spaces" takes two of the most influential minority groups of white settlers in the British Empire -- the Irish and the Scots -- and explores...