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Author Schwarz, Bill, 1951- https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PBJvt7bMg8HyR76P6RhqqQq

Title The white man's world / Bill Schwarz.

Imprint Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2011.

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Description 1 online resource (xiii, 584 pages)
Series Memories of empire ; volume 1
Memories of empire ; v. 1.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary '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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Subject Ethnicity -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century.
Ethnicity -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century.
White people -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century.
White people -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century.
Great Britain -- Colonies -- History -- 19th century.
Great Britain -- Colonies -- History -- 20th century.
Great Britain -- Race relations -- History -- 19th century.
Great Britain -- Race relations -- History -- 20th century.
HISTORY -- World.
British colonies
Ethnicity
Race relations
White people
Great Britain https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PBJdmp7p3cx8hpmJ8HvmTpP
Chronological Term 1800-1999
Genre/Form History
Other Form: Print version: Schwarz, Bill, 1951- White man's world. Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2011 9780199296910 (OCoLC)751715833
ISBN 9780191617232 (electronic bk.)
0191617237 (electronic bk.)
9786613352262
6613352268
9780191730887 (electronic book)
0191730882 (electronic book)
019929691X
9780199296910