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Settlers and Expatriates - Britons over the Seas (Paperback)
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Settlers and Expatriates - Britons over the Seas (Paperback)
Series: Oxford History of the British Empire Companion Series
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The British Empire gave rise to various new forms of British
identity in the colonial world outside the Dominions. In cities and
colonies, and in sovereign states subject to more informal
pressures such as Argentina or China, communities of Britons
developed identities inflected by local ambitions and pressures. As
a result they often found themselves at loggerheads with their
diplomatic or colonial office minders, especially in the era of
decolonisation. The impact of empire on metropolitan British
identity is increasingly well documented; the evolution of
dominions' nationalisms is likewise well known; but the new species
of Britishness which attained their fullest form in the
mid-twentieth century have received significantly less attention.
Settlers and Expatriates revisits the communities formed by these
hundreds of thousands of Britons, as well as the passages home
taken by some, and assesses their development, character, and
legacy today. Scholars with established expertise in the history of
each region explore the communalities that can be found across
British communities in South, East and Southeast Asia, Egypt, and
East and Southern Africa, and highlight the particularities that
were also distinctive features of each British experience. These
overseas Britons were sojourners and settlers; some survived in
post-independent states, others were swept out quickly and moved on
or back to an often uninterested metropolitan Britain. They have
often been caricatured and demonized, but understanding them is
important for an understanding of the states in which they lived,
whose politics were at times a crucial part of British history and
the history of migration and settlement.
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