Settlers and expatriates : Britons over the seas
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Settlers and expatriates : Britons over the seas
（The Oxford history of the British Empire, . Companion series）
Oxford University Press, 2014
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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The British Empire gave rise to various new forms of British identity in the colonial world outside the Dominions. In cities and colonies, and in sovereign states subject to more informal pressures such as Argentina or China, communities of Britons developed identities inflected by local ambitions and pressures. As a result they often found themselves at loggerheads with their diplomatic or colonial office minders, especially in the era of decolonisation. The impact
of empire on metropolitan British identity is increasingly well documented; the evolution of dominions' nationalisms is likewise well known; but the new species of Britishness which attained their fullest form in the mid-twentieth century have received significantly less attention.
Settlers and Expatriates revisits the communities formed by these hundreds of thousands of Britons, as well as the passages home taken by some, and assesses their development, character, and legacy today. Scholars with established expertise in the history of each region explore the communalities that can be found across British communities in South, East and Southeast Asia, Egypt, and East and Southern Africa, and highlight the particularities that were also distinctive features of
each British experience. These overseas Britons were sojourners and settlers; some survived in post-independent states, others were swept out quickly and moved on or back to an often uninterested metropolitan Britain. They have often been caricatured and demonized, but understanding them is important for an
understanding of the states in which they lived, whose politics were at times a crucial part of British history and the history of migration and settlement.
Table of Contents
- 1. Introduction: Britains and Britons over the seas
- 2. The British of Argentina
- 3. Expatriates in cosmopolitan Egypt: 1864-1956
- 4. Kenya: Home county and African frontier
- 5. Rhodesia 1890-1980: 'The Lost Dominion'
- 6. 'The Last Outpost' The Natalians, South Africa and the British Empire
- 7. Avatars of Identity: The British community in India
- 8. 'Permanent Boarders': The British in Ceylon, 1815-1960
- 9. The British 'Malayans'
- 10. Shanghailanders and others: British communities in China, 1843-1957
- 11. 'We don't grow coffee and bananas in Clapham Junction you know!': Imperial Britons Back Home
- 12. Orphans of Empire
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