Displacing empire : renegotiating British colonial geographies / edited by Lindsay J. Proudfoot and Michael M. Roche

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction : place, network, and the geographies of empire / Lindsay Proudfoot and Michael Roche -- Colonial spaces and sites of resistance : landed estates in 19th century Ireland / Paddy Duffy -- The unsettled country : landscape, history, and memory in Australia's wheatlands / Joy McCann -- Place and presbyterian discourse in colonial Australia / Lindsay Proudfoot -- Irishness, gender, and household space in "an up-country township" / Di Hall -- Performing power, demonstrating resistance : interpreting Queen Victoria's visit to Dublin in 1900 / Yvonne Whelan -- Environment-identity convergences in Australia, 1880-1950 / J.M. Powell -- Empire, duty, and land : soldier settlement in New Zealand, 1915-1924 / Michael Roche -- "Oriental sore" or "public nuisance" : the regulation of prostitution in Colonial India, 1805-1889 / M. Satish Kumar -- Prostitution and the place of empire : regulation and repeal in Hong Kong and the British imperial network / Philip Howell

The contributors in this volume explore postcolonial representations of imperialism and colonialism from materialist and critical geographical perspectives.