After the British World

Bright, Rachel K.; Dilley, Andrew

doi:10.1017/s0018246x16000510

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“…This emergence of self‐rule in the empire had two main effects. First, it created distinctions between colonies of British settlement, solidified in 1907 as self‐governing Dominions, and the dependent empire, frequently referred to as Crown Colonies (Bright & Dilley, ). The dependent empire, ruled directly from London, consisted of peoples considered racially unfit for self‐rule or British institutions (Korneski, ; p. 87).…”

Section: Colonial Status and Economic Developmentmentioning

confidence: 99%

Race, debt and empire: Racialising the Newfoundland financial crisis of 1933

Cullen

2018

Trans Inst British Geog

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The recent global financial crisis and related sovereign debt crises in Ireland, Greece, Iceland, Puerto Rico and beyond have highlighted the pressing task of understanding how such crises reshape the spaces we live in. Geographers, most notably David Harvey, have traced the historical roots of the current crisis to the transformation of global financial capitalism since the 1970s. There has, however, been less work on understanding the nature and management of financial crises embedded in different historical geographies. This paper seeks to contribute to that task by investigating Newfoundland's sovereign debt crisis during the Great Depression and its management by the British Empire. Newfoundland, then an independent British Dominion, uniquely relinquished self‐government in return for financial aid. Managing the crisis required difficult ideological work. I argue that to reinforce an imperial geography underpinned by racial distinctions, and to preclude the possibility of default, Newfoundland was scripted as a racially degenerate place in need of metropolitan intervention. The financial crisis produced new racialised geographies that had significant effects on Newfoundland's future.

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Section: Colonial Status and Economic Developmentmentioning

confidence: 99%

Race, debt and empire: Racialising the Newfoundland financial crisis of 1933

Cullen

2018

Trans Inst British Geog

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“…52 Leaving aside the definitional imprecision of what precisely constitutes this British world, these various strategies for the "worlding" of British history tend to reconstitute an Anglosphere imperialism in which white people (mainly men) and an Anglo-oriented political and economic culture once again take center stage in their self-appointed role as guardians of the world. 53 Indeed, we are all now attuned to the ways in which ideas of imperial federation and transcolonial cooperation germinated the varied forms of internationalism after the Great War. 54 There is growing concern that these approaches to the history of Britain and the world occlude what Antoinette Burton refers to in the title of her 2015 book: The Trouble with Empire.…”

Section: Imperial Histories Of the British Worldmentioning

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Britain and the World: A New Field?

Sasson¹,

Vernon²,

Ogborn³

et al. 2018

J. Br. Stud.

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Over the past decade, historians, journals, conferences, and even job advertisements have devoted attention to a new field of inquiry, “Britain and the world.” This emergent category is far from coherent but, despite a variety of approaches, shares a common assumption that Britain's interactions with the world beyond its shores enable us to better understand the histories of both Britain and the globe. Writing the history of Britain from a comparative, imperial, or transnational perspective is not wholly new. British historians have long worked comparatively in a predominantly European frame, while historians of empire and internationalism have also highlighted the importance of transnational and global frameworks. What, then, is signified by the articulation of “Britain and the world” as a new field? What do historians of Britain, and indeed historians of its empire and the world, stand to gain or lose from the promotion of Britain and the world as a field? What new skills, methodologies, and archives are required to become a historian of Britain and the world? We invited historians from different generations and national academies as well as with different ways of approaching the history of Britain in an extranational frame. Our hope is that these essays will open up debate and stimulate broader discussions about the changing nature of the field and our work as historians of Britain.

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“…Doing so, it continues the British World tendency, in the words of Rachel Bright and Andrew Dilley, to '[risk] neglecting a fundamental concern of imperial history in all its varieties: power'. 24 Thus not only is Wales peripheral to the core of British World scholarship, but Welsh political and cultural subordination within nineteenth-century Britain and its empire is also overlooked.…”

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Global perspectives on Welsh Patagonia: the complexities of being both colonizer and colonized

Taylor¹

2018

Journal of Global History

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The nationalist Welsh colony in Patagonia, Y Wladfa, offers a peripheral vantage point from which to reconsider core assumptions about settler colonialism and the British World. Taking a fresh approach to settler colonial studies, this article both pays close attention to settler motives before embarkation and also analyses the case from a global perspective. It foregrounds the role of unequal power relations in Britain, the British World, and the global arena in shaping social relations at home and in the colony, as well as locating Y Wladfa within a constellation of Welsh sites and influences around the world. Analysis reveals the Welsh to occupy a complex position within such global hierarchies, and to be colonizing Patagonia from a colonized position. As such, this case at the margins of settler power reveals important ambiguities, tensions, and affinities that challenge assumptions in settler colonial theory, and open spaces that might enrich and deepen analysis of this fundamentally global relationship of power.

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After the British World

Cited by 37 publications

References 62 publications

Race, debt and empire: Racialising the Newfoundland financial crisis of 1933

Race, debt and empire: Racialising the Newfoundland financial crisis of 1933

Britain and the World: A New Field?

Global perspectives on Welsh Patagonia: the complexities of being both colonizer and colonized

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