Cover -- Title Page -- Contents -- PREFACE: Connections, Comparisons and Commonalities -- Acknowledgements -- Note on Language and Usage -- INTRODUCTION: Relocating Colonial Histories -- REFRAMING COLONIALISM -- Chapter One: Race and the Webs of Empire -- CONNECTIONS -- Chapter Two: Writing Out Asia -- Chapter Three: Teaching Māori About Asia -- Chapter Four: India in New Zealand -- Chapter Five: Te Anu's Story -- EMPIRE -- Chapter Six: Sealers, Whalers and the Entanglements of Empire -- Chapter Seven: Christianity, Colonialism and Cross-Cultural Communication -- Chapter Eight: War, Knowledge and the Crisis of Empire -- WRITING -- Chapter Nine: Archives, Empires and HIstories of Colonialism -- Chapter Ten: Mr. Peal's Archive -- Chapter Eleven: Paper, Pen and Print -- Chapter Twelve: Writing and the Culture of Colonisation -- PLACE -- Chapter Thirteen: Thinking Local -- Chapter Fourteen: On Place, Space and Mobility -- CONCLUSION: Writing the Colonial Past -- Editorial Note -- Endnotes -- Index.