Tony Ballantyne

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Tony Ballantyne is a historian whose works examine the development of imperial intellectual and cultural life in Ireland, India, New Zealand and Britain. He graduated with a BA at the University of Otago and obtained a PhD at the University of Cambridge under the supervision of Professor C. A. Bayly. He is currently chair of the History Department and director of the Centre for Research on Colonial Culture at the University of Otago, but has previously taught at Washington University, the University of Illinois and the National University of Ireland. In 2012 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of New Zealand. His books include Orientalism and Race: Aryanism in the British Empire (Cambridge Imperial and Post-Colonial Studies Series, Palgrave, 2001), Between Colonialism and Diaspora: Sikh Cultural Formations in an Imperial World (Duke University Press, 2006), and Webs of Empire: Locating New Zealand's Colonial Past (Bridget Williams Books, 2012).

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Tony Ballantyne

Tony Ballantyne

Entanglements of Empire: Missionaries, Māori, and the Question of the Body