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Waiting on Empire
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 318

Waiting on Empire

The expansion of the British Empire facilitated movement across the globe for both the colonizers and the colonized. Waiting on Empire focuses on a largely forgotten group in this story of movement and migration: South Asian travelling ayahs (servants and nannies), who travelled between India and Britain and often found themselves destitute in Britain as they struggled to find their way home to South Asia. Delving into the stories of individual ayahs from a wide range of sources, Arunima Datta illuminates their brave struggle to assert their rights, showing how ayahs negotiated their precarious employment conditions, capitalized on social sympathy amongst some sections of the British populat...

Fleeting Agencies
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 259

Fleeting Agencies

Critically examines the agency and history of long-silenced coolie women and their role in colonial economy and transnational movements.

Polyurethane Polymers: Composites and Nanocomposites
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 635

Polyurethane Polymers: Composites and Nanocomposites

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2017-08-17
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  • Publisher: Elsevier

Polyurethane Polymers: Composites and Nanocomposites concentrates on the composites and nanocomposites of polyurethane based materials. Polyurethane composites are a very important class of materials widely used in the biomedical and industrial field that offer numerous potential applications in many areas. This book discusses current research and identifies future research needs in the area. - Provides an elaborate coverage of the chemistry of polyurethane, its synthesis, and properties - Includes available characterization techniques - Relates types of polyurethanes to their potential properties - Discusses composites, nanocomposites options, and PU recycling

Coolies of the Empire
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 341

Coolies of the Empire

This book unfolds the story of the indenture system within the British Empire, with India as the 'mother country' of coolies.

Polyurethane Polymers: Blends and Interpenetrating Polymer Networks
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 440

Polyurethane Polymers: Blends and Interpenetrating Polymer Networks

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  • Published: 2017-08-15
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  • Publisher: Elsevier

Polyurethane Polymers: Blends and Interpenetrating Networks deals with almost all aspects of blends and IPNs formed by polyurethane, including the thermal, mechanical, morphological, and viscoelastic properties of each blend presented in the book. In addition, major applications related to these blends and IPNs are mentioned. - Provides an elaborate coverage of the chemistry of polyurethane, including its synthesis and properties - Includes available characterization techniques - Relates types of polyurethanes to their potential properties - Discusses blends options

Protecting the Empire's Humanity
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 389

Protecting the Empire's Humanity

Protecting the Empire's Humanity lays bare the contradictions of mid-nineteenth-century imperial Britain and the fatal flaws in imperial 'humanitarianism'.

Shame and the Anti-Feminist Backlash
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 361

Shame and the Anti-Feminist Backlash

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2017-11-28
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  • Publisher: Routledge

Shame and the Anti-Feminist Backlash examines how women opposed to the feminist campaign for the vote in early twentieth-century Britain, Ireland, and Australia used shame as a political tool. It demonstrates just how proficient women were in employing a diverse vocabulary of emotions – drawing on concepts like embarrassment, humiliation, honour, courage, and chivalry – in the attempt to achieve their political goals. It looks at how far nationalist contexts informed each gendered emotional community at a time when British imperial networks were under extreme duress. The book presents a unique history of gender and shame which demonstrates just how versatile and ever-present this social ...

The Children of China's Great Migration
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 303

The Children of China's Great Migration

Rachel Murphy explores Chinese children's experience of having migrant parents and the impact this has on family relationships in China.

The Indentured Archipelago
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 296

The Indentured Archipelago

A historical geographical comparison of the Indo-Pacific Indian indenture labour experience, revealing the hitherto unexplored movements of labourers between colonies.

Tamils and the Haunting of Justice
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 338

Tamils and the Haunting of Justice

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2015-01-01
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  • Publisher: NUS Press

This compelling book explores the dilemma faced by Malaysian Tamils as they confront the moment when the plantation system where they have lived and worked for generations finally collapses. The old, long-term community-based model of rubber plantation production introduced by British and French companies in colonial Malaya has been replaced by a model based upon migrant labor, mechanization, and a gradual contraction of the plantation economy. Tamils find themselves increasingly resentful of the fact that lands that were developed and populated by their ancestors are now claimed by Malays as their own.