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" Colonialism and male domestic service across the Asia Pacific / "
Julia Martínez, Claire Lowrie, Frances Steel and Victoria Haskins.
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844699
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Martínez, Julia
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Colonialism and male domestic service across the Asia Pacific /\ Julia Martínez, Claire Lowrie, Frances Steel and Victoria Haskins.
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London :: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc,, 2019.
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xiv, 260 pages :: illustrations, maps ;; 24 cm
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1350056723
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1350056731
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135005674X
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9781350056732
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9781350056749
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 225-252) and index.
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Introduction -- Creating the houseboy: early Asian influences on European cultures of domestic service -- Indigenous houseboys and Asian ideals in Darwin and Suva -- Intercultural influences on American domesticity in the Philippines -- Colonial patriarchy and representations of masculinity in photographs of domestic workers -- Steamship stewards: encountering Asia on the high seas -- From India to Fiji: cultures of service in the grand hotel -- Labour and political activism by Chinese and Vietnamese male domestic workers -- Conclusion. Bibliography -- Index.
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Examining the role of Asian and indigenous male servants across the Asia Pacific from the late-19th century to the 1930s, this study shows how their ubiquitous presence in these purportedly "humble" jobs gave them a degree of cultural influence that has been largely overlooked in the literature on labor mobility in the age of empire. With case studies from British Hong Kong, Singapore, northern Australia, Fiji, British Columbia, French Indochina, the American Philippines and the Dutch East Indies, the book delves into the intimate and often conflicted relationships between European and American colonists and their servants. It explores the lives of houseboys, cooks and gardeners in the colonial home, considers the bell-boys and waiters in the grand colonial hotels, and follows the stewards and cabin-boys on steamships travelinging across the Indian and Pacific Oceans. This broad conception of service allows this book to illuminate trans-colonial or cross-border influences through the mobility of servants and their employers.
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Household employees-- Pacific Area-- History-- 19th century.
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Aborigines
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Arbeitsmobilität
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British colonies.
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Chinesischer Einwanderer
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Dienstbote
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Haushaltshilfe
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Household employees.
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Indischer Einwanderer
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Kolonialismus
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Social conditions.
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Sozialgeschichte
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Wirtschaftsgeschichtsschreibung
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Great Britain, Colonies, Social conditions.
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Great Britain, Colonies, Asia.
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Asia.
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Australien
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Fidschi
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Hongkong
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Pacific Area.
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Philippinen
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| Dewey Classification
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301.4444
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HD8039.D52P33 2019
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Haskins, Victoria K., (Victoria Katharine),1967-
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Lowrie, Claire
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Steel, Frances
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