A Third British Empire? The Dominion Idea in Imperial Politics 

The international politics of settler self-governance: reflections on Zionism and ‘Dominion’ status within the British empire

“…The feeling dominating Canada is one of pride in her local autonomy and legislative liberty connected with imperial unity. 30 However, the racial element of this history is absolutely critical. 29 The place of racism in the development of Canadian self-governance has been studiously minimised in retrospect.…”

The Politics of Commerce

“…An unofficial parliament may reflect the persistence of a polity, however difficult to pin down. Given the overwhelming importance of Britain and the self-governing colonies in the Congress, it may be more helpful to think of that polity not as the British empire in the round but rather as a "Third British Empire" (Darwin, 1999) or, with James Belich, to adopt the contemporary term Greater Britain. Belich writes of "Greater Britain" that "it was not just a failed idea.…”

Private Australia: re-imagined nationhood in inter-war colonial home movies

“…16 In this cultural context, British imperial ideologies of racial superiority, military reliance, economic interdependence and cultural transplantation determined most inter-war Australian amateur filmmakers' thematic choices when illustrating contemporary national topics. 17 Thus, records of British-Australian affiliations represented a vital, albeit controversial link between them and their 'mother country', and functioned as a key thematic strand of their films. Home movies about newly acquired economic and technological assets, bountiful wheat harvests, large sheep stations, hunting expeditions and fashionable automobiles could be at first interpreted as the filmmakers' attempts to re-imagine and re-present their successful British settler identity in Australia Á the promised Edenic Antipodean land.…”