Race and Imperial Defence in the British World, 1870-1914

ISBN-13: 9781316503959 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 269 str.

John C. Mitcham

Opis

A comprehensive account of how British race patriotism shaped the defense partnership between Britain and the dominions before the Great War.

Recenzje

'… Mitcham has written the first comprehensive account of the evolution of the process that integrated the 'white' dominions - Australia, New Zealand, Canada, and South Africa - with Britain in an overarching imperial security partnership. … This is a valuable read for anyone seriously interested in the evolution of British imperial defense policy, the history of the Commonwealth, and even late nineteenth-century popular culture in the British world.' New York Military Affairs Symposium

Spis treści

Introduction; 1. Imperial Britons: race, identity, and Greater Britain; 2. Defending Greater Britain: race and the evolution of Victorian imperial defense; 3. Imperial unity, masculinity, and the South African war; 4. The empire on parade: public representations of Greater Britain; 5. 'Sea league of all the Britons': race, navalism, and empire; 6. A young Briton's duty: youth, militarism, and empire; 7. 'A Britannic alliance': the dominions and imperial defense policy, 1900–14; Conclusion: the 'call of the blood': the empire and the outbreak of the Great War; Bibliography; Index.