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Rediscovering the British World

Author : Phillip Alfred Buckner,R. Douglas Francis
Publisher : University of Calgary Press
Page : 452 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : History
ISBN : 9781552381793

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Rediscovering the British World is one part of an ongoing attempt to approach British Imperial history from a different viewpoint, placing the colonies of settlement at the centre. Editors Phillip Buckner and Douglas Francis have included nineteen essays from expert scholars in the field, which cover a broad range of cultural, social, and intellectual topics in British imperial history from the mid-nineteenth to the mid-twentieth century. The essays focus on the history of Britain and the Empire, with considerable emphasis on the self-governing dominions of Canada, South Africa, Australia, and New Zealand. They attempt to show the centrality of the Empire in the history of the nations created by the British diaspora overseas, while at the same time calling into question the extent of the existence of a "British World." The goal is not to wax nostalgic, but rather to re-examine the complex phenomenon of this far-reaching empire and to shed light on the ways in which it has shaped our world. With contributions by: James Belich Frank Bongiorno Bettina Bradbury Patrick H. Brennan Phillip Buckner Elizabeth Elbourne R. Douglas Francis Jeffrey Grey Catherine Hall John Lambert Douglas Lorimer David Lowe Stuart Macintyre Adele Perry Paul Pickering Satadru Sen R. Scott Sheffield Paul Ward Stuart Ward Wendy Webster

Canada and the British World

Author : Phillip Buckner,R. Douglas Francis
Publisher : UBC Press
Page : 367 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2011-11-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780774840316

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Canada and the British World by Phillip Buckner,R. Douglas Francis Pdf

Canada and the British World surveys Canada's national history through a British lens. In a series of essays focusing on the social, cultural, and intellectual aspects of Canadian identity over more than a century, the complex and evolving relationship between Canada and the larger British World is revealed. Examining the transition from the strong belief of nineteenth-century Canadians in the British character of their country to the realities of modern multicultural Canada, this book eschews nostalgia in its endeavour to understand the dynamic and complicated society in which Canadians did and do live.

News and the British World

Author : Simon James Potter
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0199265127

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News and the British World by Simon James Potter Pdf

Revealed to contemporaries by the South African War, the basis on which the system would develop soon became the focus for debate. Commercial organizations, including newspaper combinations and news agencies such as Reuters, fought to protect their interests, while "constructive imperialists" attempted to enlist the power of the state to strengthen the system. Debate culminated in fierce controversies over state censorship and propaganda during and after World War I. Based on extensive archival research, this study addresses crucial themes, including the impact of empire on the press, Britain's imperial experience, and the idea of a "British world".

The British World

Author : Carl Bridge,Kent Fedorowich
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2004-11-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9781135759582

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The British World by Carl Bridge,Kent Fedorowich Pdf

This collection of essays is based upon the assumption that the British Empire was held together not merely by ties of trade and defence, but by a shared sense of British identity that linked British communities around the globe. Focusing on the themes of migration, identity and the media, this book is an exploration of these and other interconnected themes that help define the British World of the late 19th and 20th centuries.

Loyalism and the Formation of the British World

Author : Allan Blackstock,Frank O'Gorman
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : History
ISBN : 9781843839125

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Loyalism and the Formation of the British World by Allan Blackstock,Frank O'Gorman Pdf

Explores loyalism as a social and political force in eighteenth and nineteenth century British colonies and former colonies.

Revisiting the British World

Author : Jatinder Mann,Iain E. Johnston-White
Publisher : Peter Lang Incorporated, International Academic Publishers
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2022
Category : Great Britain
ISBN : 1433187418

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Revisiting the British World by Jatinder Mann,Iain E. Johnston-White Pdf

Introduction -Revisiting the British world / Jatinder Mann and Iain Johnston-White -- "The history of this colony is one of dismemberment": territorial separation movements and new colonies in Australasia, 1820s-1900 / André Brett -- Intimacies amidst hierarchies- colonial encounters and the Sahib-subject relationship in the AngloIndian household / Sucharita Sen -- Reading settler-colonial discourses: an analysis of two Ontario public school history textbooks from 1921 / Danielle Lorenz -- Melbamania: Nellie Melba and celebrity in the British world / Karen Fox -- Vasco Loureiro- British world Bohemian / Paul Kiem -- "For gorsake, stop laughing! This is serious": the British world as a community of cartooning and satirical art / Richard Scully -- Agent of empire: Australia's tradition of imperial internationalism / William A. Stoltz -- The end of the British world and the redefinition of citizenship in Australia, Canada, and Aotearoa New Zealand, 1960s-1970s / Jatinder Mann -- The Antipodes at the crossroads: Australia, Aotearoa New Zealand, and the great powers at the end of empire / Andrew Kelly -- Conclusion- Why revisit the British world? / Iain Johnston-White and Jatinder Mann -- Index.

The Cultural Construction of the British World

Author : Barry Crosbie,Mark Hampton
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2018-04
Category : Great Britain
ISBN : 152612713X

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What were the cultural factors that held the British world together? How was Britishness understood at home, in the Empire, and in areas of informal British influence? This book makes the case for a 'cultural British world', and examines how it took shape in a wide range of locations, ranging from India to Jamaica, from Sierra Leone to Australia, and from south China to New Zealand. Eleven original essays explore a wide range of topics, including images of nakedness, humanitarianism, anti-slavery, literary criticism, travel narratives, and household possessions. The book argues that the debates around these issues, as well as the consumer culture associated with them, helped give the British world a sense of cohesion and identity. The cultural construction of the British world will be essential reading for historians of imperialism and globalisation, and includes contributions from some of the most prominent historians of British imperial and cultural history.

National Geographic the British World

Author : Tim Jepson
Publisher : National Geographic Books
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : History
ISBN : 9781426215537

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National Geographic the British World by Tim Jepson Pdf

This fascinating heritage in breathtaking National Geographic style with gorgeous photographs and artwork, engaging narrative, information sidebars, and premium-quality maps specially commissioned for this book.

The Empire Project

Author : John Darwin
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 815 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2009-09-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9781139482141

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The British Empire, wrote Adam Smith, 'has hitherto been not an empire, but the project of an empire' and John Darwin offers a magisterial global history of the rise and fall of that great imperial project. The British Empire, he argues, was much more than a group of colonies ruled over by a scattering of British expatriates until eventual independence. It was, above all, a global phenomenon. Its power derived rather less from the assertion of imperial authority than from the fusing together of three different kinds of empire: the settler empire of the 'white dominions'; the commercial empire of the City of London; and 'Greater India' which contributed markets, manpower and military muscle. This unprecedented history charts how this intricate imperial web was first strengthened, then weakened and finally severed on the rollercoaster of global economic, political and geostrategic upheaval on which it rode from beginning to end.

Building the British Atlantic World

Author : Daniel Maudlin,Bernard L. Herman
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 351 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2016-03-11
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781469626833

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Building the British Atlantic World by Daniel Maudlin,Bernard L. Herman Pdf

Spanning the North Atlantic rim from Canada to Scotland, and from the Caribbean to the coast of West Africa, the British Atlantic world is deeply interconnected across its regions. In this groundbreaking study, thirteen leading scholars explore the idea of transatlanticism--or a shared "Atlantic world" experience--through the lens of architecture, built spaces, and landscapes in the British Atlantic from the seventeenth century through the mid-nineteenth century. Examining town planning, churches, forts, merchants' stores, state houses, and farm houses, this collection shows how the powerful visual language of architecture and design allowed the people of this era to maintain common cultural experiences across different landscapes while still forming their individuality. By studying the interplay between physical construction and social themes that include identity, gender, taste, domesticity, politics, and race, the authors interpret material culture in a way that particularly emphasizes the people who built, occupied, and used the spaces and reflects the complex cultural exchanges between Britain and the New World.

British World Policy and the Projection of Global Power, c.1830-1960

Author : T. G. Otte
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 331 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2019-09-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107198852

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British World Policy and the Projection of Global Power, c.1830-1960 by T. G. Otte Pdf

Reshapes the discourse surrounding the nature of British global power in this crucial period of transformation in international politics.

Children, Childhood and Youth in the British World

Author : Simon Sleight,Shirleene Robinson
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2015-11-16
Category : History
ISBN : 1137489405

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Children, Childhood and Youth in the British World by Simon Sleight,Shirleene Robinson Pdf

Age was a critical factor in shaping imperial experience, yet it has not received any sustained scholarly attention. This pioneering interdisciplinary collection is the first to investigate the lives of children and young people and the construction of modes of childhood and youth within the British world.

Empire

Author : Niall Ferguson
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2012-10-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9780241958513

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Niall Ferguson's acclaimed bestseller on the highs and lows of Britain's empire Once vast swathes of the globe were coloured imperial red and Britannia ruled not just the waves, but the prairies of America, the plains of Asia, the jungles of Africa and the deserts of Arabia. Just how did a small, rainy island in the North Atlantic achieve all this? And why did the empire on which the sun literally never set finally decline and fall? Niall Ferguson's acclaimed Empire brilliantly unfolds the imperial story in all its splendours and its miseries, showing how a gang of buccaneers and gold-diggers planted the seed of the biggest empire in all history - and set the world on the road to modernity. 'The most brilliant British historian of his generation ... Ferguson examines the roles of "pirates, planters, missionaries, mandarins, bankers and bankrupts" in the creation of history's largest empire ... he writes with splendid panache ... and a seemingly effortless, debonair wit' Andrew Roberts 'Dazzling ... wonderfully readable' New York Review of Books 'A remarkably readable précis of the whole British imperial story - triumphs, deceits, decencies, kindnesses, cruelties and all' Jan Morris 'Empire is a pleasure to read and brims with insights and intelligence' Sunday Times

Empire

Author : Jeremy Paxman
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 437 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2011-10-06
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780670919604

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From the bestselling author of The English comes Empire, Jeremy Paxman's history of the British Empire accompanied by a flagship 5-part BBC TV series, for readers of Simon Schama and Andrew Marr. The influence of the British Empire is everywhere, from the very existence of the United Kingdom to the ethnic composition of our cities. It affects everything, from Prime Ministers' decisions to send troops to war to the adventurers we admire. From the sports we think we're good at to the architecture of our buildings; the way we travel to the way we trade; the hopeless losers we will on, and the food we hunger for, the empire is never very far away. In this acute and witty analysis, Jeremy Paxman goes to the very heart of empire. As he describes the selection process for colonial officers ('intended to weed out the cad, the feeble and the too clever') the importance of sport, the sweating domestic life of the colonial officer's wife ('the challenge with cooking meat was "to grasp the fleeting moment between toughness and putrefaction when the joint may possibly prove eatable"') and the crazed end for General Gordon of Khartoum, Paxman brings brilliantly to life the tragedy and comedy of Empire and reveals its profound and lasting effect on our nation and ourselves. 'Paxman is witty, incisive, acerbic and opinionated . . . In short, he carries the whole thing off with panache bordering on effrontery' Piers Brendon, Sunday Times 'Paxman is a magnificent historian, and Empire may be remembered as his finest work' Independent on Sunday Jeremy Paxman was born in Yorkshire and educated at Cambridge. He is an award-winning journalist who spent ten years reporting from overseas, notably for Panorama. He is the author of five books including The English. He is the presenter of Newsnight and University Challenge and has presented BBC documentaries on various subjects including Victorian art and Wilfred Owen.

An Anglican British world

Author : Joseph Hardwick
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2017-03-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780719097126

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This book looks at how that oft-maligned institution, the Anglican Church, coped with mass migration from Britain in the first half of the nineteenth century. The book details the great array of institutions, voluntary societies and inter-colonial networks that furnished the Church with the men and money that enabled it to sustain a common institutional structure and a common set of beliefs across a rapidly-expanding ‘British world’. It also sheds light on how this institutional context contributed to the formation of colonial Churches with distinctive features and identities. One of the book’s key aims is to show how the colonial Church should be of interest to more than just scholars and students of religious and Church history. The colonial Church was an institution that played a vital role in the formation of political publics and ethnic communities in a settler empire that was being remoulded by the advent of mass migration, democracy and the separation of Church and State.