Although british imperial historians were initially on the periphery of this debate, as they had been on the periphery of british historiography since the 1960s, they were gradually drawn back into the mainstream of british history as the empire came to be seen as central in the creation of the british state and in the creation of a sense of british identity. [...] The organizing committee (to which douglas Francis of the University of calgary was now added) invited six keynote speakers to address the “british world” theme from the perspective of their own speciality: James belich of the University of Auckland, Phillip buckner of the University of new brunswick and the institute of commonwealth studies, sarah carter of the University of calgary, Jeff grey of [...] Thus, identities were always constructed in a process of mutual constitution – the making of self through the making of others.4 The identity of the west indian provides us with a powerful example of this process.5 According to the Oxford English Dictionary, the first recorded use of the term west indian, in 1597, served both to describe the indigenous inhabitants of the islands and to condemn the [...] The arrival in britain of large 24 r eDiscov er ing the Br it ish Wor lD numbers of black migrants from the west indies in the late 1940s and 1950s brought with it the recognition both by the british and by the black peoples of the Anglo-caribbean islands that these migrants were west indians.
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- 941.081
- Dewey Decimal Edition Number
- 22
- General Note
- Selection of papers presented at the British World Conference held on July 10, 2003 in Calgary Alberta Issued as part of the desLibris books collection
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- 9781552384381
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- DA16
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- R34 2005eb
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- 1 electronic text (445 p.)
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- Canada
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Table of Contents
- Front Cover -1
- Title Page 3
- Bibliographic Information 4
- CONTENTS 5
- Introduction 9
- CHAPTER 1: What Did a British World Mean to the British? 21
- CHAPTER 2: The Rise of the Angloworld 39
- CHAPTER 3: Indigenous Peoples and Imperial Networks in the Early Nineteenth Century 59
- CHAPTER 4: Loyalty and Rebellion in Colonial Politics 87
- CHAPTER 5: From Victorian Values to White Virtues 109
- CHAPTER 6: Colonial Comparisons 135
- CHAPTER 7: Interlocuting Empire 159
- CHAPTER 8: The Long Goodbye 181
- CHAPTER 9: Fabian Socialism and British Australia, 1890-1972 209
- CHAPTER 10: War and the British World in the Twentieth Century 233
- CHAPTER 11: The Other Battle 251
- CHAPTER 12: Empire and Everyday 267
- CHAPTER 13: Britishness, South Africanness, and the First World War 285
- CHAPTER 14: The Migrant's Empire 305
- CHAPTER 15: The Empire Answers 321
- CHAPTER 16: Rehabilitating the Indigene 341
- CHAPTER 17: Australia's Cold War 361
- CHAPTER 18: History Wars and the Imperial Legacy in the Settler Societies 381
- CHAPTER 19: Worlds Apart 399
- END NOTES 417
- NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS 421
- INDEX 425
- Back Cover 451
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