Imperial spaces: Placing the Irish and Scots in colonial Australia

by Dianne Hall, Lindsay Proudfoot, DianneP. Hall

mperial 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 Scots built new...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0719078377
• ISBN13: 9780719078378
• Release Date: October 2011
• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 1.14 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.2" x 9.2"