Since the publication of Phillip Buckner and R. Douglas Francisâ
ground-breaking Rediscovering the British World, there has not been a
collection of essays that looks at the history of the British World
from an all-round thematic perspective. This edited collection defines
the British World as a global community in which members identified
themselves predominantly as British and considered the United Kingdom
(UK) to be at its centre. The chapters in the volume focus upon
diverse aspects of British identity and its interrelation with the
history of Britainâs former settler-colonies and other regions of
British settlement. Drawing upon new research from established
scholars, early career researchers, and doctoral students, the edited
collection aims to offer new voices and perspectives to the study of
the British World. The book will appeal to both scholars and students
of the history of the British World and British imperial history, as
well as the national histories of Australia, Canada, Aotearoa New
Zealand, India, and the UK. 'In this timely collection, new voices
enliven and enlarge British World scholarship, nudging the field
towards postcolonial concerns with critique and power while
disassembling distinctions between transnational and nation-based
modes of analysis.'âPhilippa Mein Smith, University of Canterbury,
Aotearoa New Zealand 'Revisiting the British World provides us with a
series of essays that both challenge and expand our understanding of
what it meant to be British, both in the United Kingdom and overseas,
during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Written by a mixture of
established scholars, early career researchers, and doctoral students,
the essays bring new voices and a fresh perspective to the field of
British World Studies and show its continuing importance.'âPhillip
Buckner, University of New Brunswick 'This edited collection, ranging
widely in its conceptual and geographic scope, offers fresh
perspectives on an important field. It not only revisits the British
World, it enlarges it.'âFelicity Barnes, University of Auckland 'As
the editors point out in their deftly context-setting, elegant, and
insightful introductory and concluding remarks, the authors have used
a range of different approaches to elucidate their subjects, from
life-writing and critical discourse analysis to geopolitics,
constitutional and political history, and through to the emerging
fields of the history of celebrity and of humour. This fine collection
is a resounding testimony to the continuing usefulness, fecundity, and
depth of work on the significance of the British World moment.'
âCarl Bridge, King's College London 'âŚreintroduces the British
World as an idea to be historicized; a scale of inquiry; and a
category of analysis in global, imperial, national, and transnational
studies in history and political science...This collection will
intrigue scholars interested in complicated histories of Britishness
that happened outside of Britain and how the question of Britishness
shaped developments in Australia, Aotearoa New Zealand, and
Canada.'âDanielle Kinsey, Carleton University 'The unique selling
point presented on the back cover is that such a collection is the
first since Phillip Buckner and R. Douglas Francis' Rediscovering the
British World was published back in 2005...Each chapter opens a fresh
vista that can be a starting point for further research, or,
conversely, confirms theories about the British World generated
elsewhere.' âJohn Griffiths, Massey University 'The well-researched
chapters are broadly chronological in sequence, in that the first
chapter concerns separatist impulses in colonial New South Wales from
the 1820s and the last chapters deal with citizenship and the Cold War
re-orientation of foreign policy among Tasman nations...this
collection is engagingly written throughout.'âMarcus Harmes,
University of Southern Queensland
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New Voices and Perspectives
Produktdetaljer
ISBN
9781433188374
Publisert
2022
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Vendor
Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
SprĂĽk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Digital bok
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