'The White Man's World' explores ideas of the white man during the last 100 years of the British Empire. Working back from Enoch Powell's 'Rivers of Blood' speech of 1968, it discusses the racial assumptions that accompanied the founding of colonial Australia, South Africa, and Rhodesia.
Contents
Introduction : 'the thing' -- Prologue : reveries of race, April 1968 -- Ethnic populism -- Colony and metropole -- Remembering race -- The romance of the veld -- Frontier philosopher : Jan Christian Smuts -- Defeated by friends : the Central African Federation -- Ian Smith : the last white man?
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