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PublisherManchester University Press

ISBN-10152616275X

ISBN-139781526162755

eBay Product ID (ePID)12058359438

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Book TitleImperial Commonwealth : Australia and the Project of Empire, 1867-1914

Number of Pages280 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication Year2023

TopicSocial History, Australia & New Zealand, Colonialism & Post-Colonialism

IllustratorYes

GenrePolitical Science, History

AuthorWm. Matthew Kennedy

Book SeriesStudies in Imperialism Ser.

FormatHardcover

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Item Height0.6 in

Item Weight19.7 Oz

Item Length9.2 in

Item Width6.1 in

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Intended AudienceTrade

TitleLeadingThe

Dewey Edition23

Series Volume Number202

Dewey Decimal994.03

Table Of ContentIntroduction 1 Settler visions of imperial futures 2 Australians and famine in India 3 Empire and settler war-making 4 An Australian empire 5 Australian imperial governmentalities Conclusion: citizens of empire Index

SynopsisFrom the late 1800s to the early 1900s, Australian settler colonists mobilised their unique settler experiences to develop their own vision of what 'empire' was and could be. Reinterpreting their histories and attempting to divine their futures with a much heavier concentration on racialized visions of humanity, white Australian settlers came to believe that their whiteness as well as their Britishness qualified them for an equal voice in the running of Britain's imperial project. Through asserting their case, many soon claimed that, as newly minted citizens of a progressive and exemplary Australian Commonwealth, white settlers such as themselves were actually better suited to the modern task of empire. Such a settler political cosmology with empire at its center ultimately led Australians to claim an empire of their own in the Pacific Islands, complete with its own, unique imperial governmentality., The Imperial Commonwealth examines what empire meant to late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Australian settler colonists, how it seemed to entail special obligations for white settlers of British heritage, and how, in developing settler colonial categories of empire, Australian itself became an empire., The Imperial Commonwealth examines what empire meant to late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Australian settler colonists, how it seemed to entail special obligations for white settlers of British heritage, and how, in developing settler colonial categories of empire, Australian itself became an empire. From the late 1800s to the early 1900s, Australian settler colonists mobilised their unique settler experiences to develop their own vision of what 'empire' was and could be. Reinterpreting their histories and attempting to divine their futures with a much heavier concentration on racialized visions of humanity, white Australian settlers came to believe that their whiteness as well as their Britishness qualified them for an equal voice in the running of Britain's imperial project. Through asserting their case, many soon claimed that, as newly minted citizens of a progressive and exemplary Australian Commonwealth, white settlers such as themselves were actually better suited to the modern task of empire. Such a settler political cosmology with empire at its centre ultimately led Australians to claim an empire of their own in the Pacific Islands, complete with its own, unique imperial governmentality.

LC Classification NumberDU115