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• Preliminary Pages
• Introduction
• Archival fragments
  1. The Old Commodore: a transnational life
• Authority
  2. Biography and global history: reflections on examining colonial governance through the life of Edward Eyre
  3. ‘A fine type of Hindoo’ meets ‘the Australian type’: British Indians in Australia and diverse masculinities
  4. A British prince and a transnational life: Alfred, Duke of Edinburgh’s visit to Australia, 1867—68
  5. Enacting the international: R. G. Watt and the League of Nations Union
• Intimacy
  6. Love, loss and ‘going Home’: the intimate lives of Victorian settlers
  7. A journey of love: Agnes Breuer’s sojourn in 1930s China
  8. Life stories, family relations and the ‘lens of migration’: postwar British emigration and the new mobility
  9. ‘I’m not a good mother’: gender expectations and tensions in a migrant woman’s life story
  10. First love and Italian postwar migration stories
• Intellect
  11. The Pacific as rhizome: the case of Sir Henry Alexander Wickham, planter, and his transnational plants
  12. A transnational imagination: Alfred Deakin’s reading lists
• Imagination
  13. From cosmopolitan romance to transnational fiction: re-reading Jean Devanny’s Australian novels
  14. Paris and beyond: the transnational/national in the writing of Christina Stead and Eleanor Dark
  15. Australian ‘immersion’ narratives: memoirs of contemporary language travel
  16. America and the queer diaspora: the case of artist David McDiarmid
• Objects of displacement
  17. Living in a material world: object biography and transnational lives
• Contributors
• Index