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EBOOK White Man's World
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Wydawnictwo: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 9780191619953
EAN: FE175408EB
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Stron: 600
Data wydania: 2011
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Memories of Empire is a trilogy which explores the complex, subterranean political        currents which emerged in English society during the years of postwar        decolonization. Bill Schwarz shows that, through the medium of memory, the empire        was to continue to possess strange afterlives long after imperial rule itself had        vanished.The White Man's World, the first volume in the trilogy, explores ideas of        the white man as they evolved during the time of the British Empire, from the        mid-nineteenth century to the mid-twentieth century, looking particularly at the        transactions between the colonies and the home society of England. The story works        back from the popular response to Enoch Powell's 'Rivers of Blood' speech in 1968,        in which identifications with racial whiteness came to be highly charged. Driving        this newracial politics, Bill Schwarz proposes, were unappeased memories of        Britain's imperial past.The White Man's World surveys the founding of the so-called        white colonies, looking in particular at Australia, South Africa, and Rhodesia, and        argues that it was in this experience that contemporary meanings of racial whiteness        first cohered. These colonial nations - 'white men's countries', as they were        popularly known - embodied the conviction that the future of humankind lay in the        hands of white men. The systems of thought which underwrote the ideas of the white        man, and of thewhite man's country, worked as a form of ethnic populism, which gave        life to the concept of Greater Britain.But if during the Victorian and Edwardian        period the empire was largely narrated in heroic terms, in the masculine mode, by        the time of decolonization in the 1960s racial whiteness had come to signify defeat        and desperation, not only in the colonies but in the metropole too. Identifications        with racial whiteness did not disappear in England in the moment of decolonization:        they came alive again, fuelled by memories of what whiteness had once represented,        recalling the empire as a lost racialutopia.

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