• DOI:10.1080/1031461X.2017.1279196
Corpus ID: 149205560

Asian Servants for the Imperial Telegraph: Imagining North Australia as an Indian Ocean Colony before 1914

@article{Martinez2017AsianSF,
  title={Asian Servants for the Imperial Telegraph: Imagining North Australia as an Indian Ocean Colony before 1914},
  author={J. Martinez},
  journal={Australian Historical Studies},
  year={2017},
  volume={48},
  pages={227 - 243}
}

J. Martinez

Published 2017

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Australian Historical Studies

In the late nineteenth century, the officers of the Eastern Extension Australasia and China Telegraph Company provided north Australia with a cable connection to London via Java, Singapore, and India. The telegraph project prompted a new era of colonisation in tropical north Australia and the officers of the company sought to ensure that the north would be shaped according to their notions of Indian Ocean colonial culture. They insisted on employing Asian domestic servants in opposition to… CONTINUE READING

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