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Since the publication of Phillip Buckner and R. Douglas Francis'
ground-breaking Rediscovering the British World, there has not been
a collection of essays that looks at the history of the British
World from an all-round thematic perspective. This edited
collection defines the British World as a global community in which
members identified themselves predominantly as British and
considered the United Kingdom (UK) to be at its centre. The
chapters in the volume focus upon diverse aspects of British
identity and its interrelation with the history of Britain's former
settler-colonies and other regions of British settlement. Drawing
upon new research from established scholars, early career
researchers, and doctoral students, the edited collection aims to
offer new voices and perspectives to the study of the British
World. The book will appeal to both scholars and students of the
history of the British World and British imperial history, as well
as the national histories of Australia, Canada, Aotearoa New
Zealand, India, and the UK. Contents: Jatinder Mann / Iain
Johnston-White: Introduction: Revisiting the British World - Andre
Brett: "The History of This Colony Is One of Dismemberment":
Territorial Separation Movements and New Colonies in Australasia,
1820s-1900 - Sucharita Sen: Colonial Encounters and the
Sahib-Subject Relationship in Anglo-Indian Households - Danielle E.
Lorenz: Reading Settler-Colonial Discourses: An Analysis of Two
Ontario Public School History Textbooks from 1921 - Karen Fox:
Melbamania: Nellie Melba and Celebrity in the British World - Paul
Kiem: Vasco Loureiro-British World Bohemian - Richard Scully: "For
gorsake, stop laughing! This is serious": The British World as a
Community of Cartooning and Satirical Art - William A. Stoltz:
Agent of Empire: Australia's Tradition of Imperial Internationalism
- Jatinder Mann: The End of the British World and the Redefinition
of Citizenship in Australia, Canada, and Aotearoa New Zealand,
1960s-1970s - Andrew Kelly: The Antipodes at the Crossroads:
Australia, Aotearoa New Zealand, and the Great Powers at the End of
Empire - Iain Johnston-White / Jatinder Mann: Conclusion: Why
Revisit the British World?
This book explores the profound social, cultural, and political
changes that affected the way in which Canadians and Australians
defined themselves as a "people" from the late nineteenth century
to the 1970s. Taking as its central theme the way each country
responded to the introduction of new migrants, the book asks a key
historical question: why and how did multiculturalism replace
Britishness as the defining idea of community for English-speaking
Canada and Australia, and what does this say about their respective
experiences of nationalism in the twentieth century? The book
begins from a simple premise - namely, that the path towards the
adoption of multiculturalism as the orthodox way of defining
national community in English-speaking Canada and Australia in the
latter half of the twentieth century was both uncertain and
unsteady. It followed a period in which both nations had looked
first and foremost to Britain to define their national self-image.
In both nations, however, following the breakdown of their more
formal and institutional ties to the 'mother-country' in the
post-war period there was a crisis of national meaning, and policy
makers and politicians moved quickly to fill the void with a new
idea of the nation, one that was the very antithesis to the White,
monolithic idea of Britishness. This book will be useful for both
history and politics courses in Australia and Canada, as well as
internationally.
This edited collection explores citizenship in a transnational
perspective, with a focus on Australia, Canada, and New Zealand. It
adopts a multi-disciplinary approach and offers historical, legal,
political, and sociological perspectives. The two overarching
themes of the book are ethnicity and Indigeneity. The contributions
in the collection come from widely respected international scholars
who approach the subject of citizenship from a range of
perspectives: some arguing for a post-citizenship world, others
questioning the very concept itself, or its application to
Indigenous nations.
This edited collection brings together leading and emerging
international scholars who explore citizenship through the two
overarching themes of Indigeneity and ethnicity. They approach the
subject from a range of disciplinary perspectives: historical,
legal, political, and sociological. Therefore, this book makes an
important and unique contribution to the existing literature
through its transnational, inter- and multidisciplinary
perspectives. The collection includes scholars whose work on
citizenship in settler societies moves beyond the idea of inclusion
(fitting into extant citizenship regimes) to innovative models of
inclusivity (refitting existing models) to reflect the multiple
identities of an increasingly post-national era, and to promote the
recognition of Indigenous citizenships and rights that were
suppressed as a formative condition of citizenship in these
societies.
Adopting a political and legal perspective, Redefining Citizenship
in Australia, Canada, and Aotearoa New Zealand undertakes a
transnational study that examines the demise of Britishness as a
defining feature of the conceptualisation of citizenship in
Australia, Canada, and Aotearoa New Zealand and the impact that
this historic shift has had on Indigenous and other ethnic groups
in these states. During the 1950s and 1970s an ethnically based
citizenship was transformed into a civic-based one (one based on
rights and responsibilities). The major context in which this took
place was the demise of British race patriotism in Australia,
English-speaking Canada, and Aotearoa New Zealand. Although the
timing of this shift varied, Aboriginal groups and non-British
ethnic groups were now incorporated, or appeared to be
incorporated, into ideas of citizenship in all three nations. The
development of citizenship in this period has traditionally been
associated with immigration in Australia, Canada, and Aotearoa New
Zealand. However, the historical origins of citizenship practices
in all three countries have yet to be fully analysed. This is what
Redefining Citizenship in Australia, Canada, and Aotearoa New
Zealand does. The overarching question addressed by the book is:
Why and how did the end of the British World lead to the
redefinition of citizenship in Australia, Canada, and Aotearoa New
Zealand between the 1950s and 1970s in regard to other ethnic and
Indigenous groups? This book will be useful for history and
politics courses, as well as specialised courses on citizenship and
Indigenous studies.
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