| Description |
1 online resource (x, 371 pages). |
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text file |
| Series |
Critical perspectives on empire
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Critical perspectives on empire.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
The coming man : Chinese migration to the goldfields -- The American commonwealth and the 'negro problem' -- 'The day will come' : Charles Pearson's disturbing prophecy -- Theodore Roosevelt's re-assertion of racial vigour -- Imperial brotherhood or white? Gandhi in South Africa -- White Australia points the way -- Defending the Pacific slope -- White ties across the ocean : the Pacific tour of the US fleet -- The Union of South Africa : white men reconcile -- International conferences : cosmopolitan amity or racial enmity? -- Japanese alienation and imperial ambition -- Racial equality? The Paris Peace Conference, 1919 -- Immigration restriction in the 1920s : 'segregation on a large scale' -- Individual rights without distinction. |
| Summary |
In 1900 W.E.B. DuBois prophesied that the colour line would be the key problem of the twentieth-century and he later identified one of its key dynamics: the new religion of whiteness that was sweeping the world. Whereas most historians have confined their studies of race-relations to a national framework, this book studies the transnational circulation of people and ideas, racial knowledge and technologies that under-pinned the construction of self-styled white men's countries from South Africa, to North America and Australasia. Marilyn Lake and Henry Reynolds show how in the late nineteenth century and early twentieth century these countries worked in solidarity to exclude those they defined as not-white, actions that provoked a long international struggle for racial equality. Their findings make clear the centrality of struggles around mobility and sovereignty to modern formulations of both race and human rights. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Race relations -- History.
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Race relations. |
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History. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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History.
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| Added Author |
Reynolds, Henry, 1938-
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Lake, Marilyn. Drawing the global colour line. Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2008 9780521881180 0521881188 (OCoLC)166357540 |
| ISBN |
9780511379147 (electronic book) |
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0511379145 (electronic book) |
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9780511376443 (ebook) |
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0511376448 (ebook) |
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9780511378270 (electronic book) |
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0511378270 (electronic book) |
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9780511805363 (electronic book) |
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0511805365 (electronic book) |
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9780521881180 (hardback) |
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0521881188 (hardback) |
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9780521707527 (paperback) |
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0521707528 (paperback) |
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