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Unhomely Empire - Whiteness and Belonging, c.1760-1830 (Hardcover)
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Unhomely Empire - Whiteness and Belonging, c.1760-1830 (Hardcover)
Series: Empire’s Other Histories
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This book examines the role of Scottish Enlightenment ideas of
belonging in the construction and circulation of white supremacist
thought that sought to justify British imperial rule. During the
18th century, European imperial expansion radically increased
population mobility through the forging of new trade routes, war,
disease, enslavement and displacement. In this book, Onni Gust
argues that this mass movement intersected with philosophical
debates over what it meant to belong to a nation, civilization, and
even humanity itself. Unhomely Empire maps the consolidation of a
Scottish Enlightenment discourse of ‘home’ and ‘exile’
through three inter-related case studies and debates; slavery and
abolition in the Caribbean, Scottish Highland emigration to North
America, and raising white girls in colonial India. Playing out
over poetry, political pamphlets, travel writing, philosophy,
letters and diaries, these debates offer a unique insight into the
movement of ideas across a British imperial literary network. Using
this rich cultural material, Gust argues that whiteness was central
to 19th-century liberal imperialism’s understanding of belonging,
whilst emotional attachment and the perceived ability, or
inability, to belong were key concepts in constructions of racial
difference.
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