Rediscovering the British World

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Filigrane

Année de parution:
2006

ISBN-13: 9781552384381

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