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By John C. Mitcham

ISBN-10: 110713899X

ISBN-13: 9781107138995

the 1st finished account of the cultural and racial origins of the imperial protection partnership among Britain, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and South Africa. Drawing on learn from each nook of the globe, John C. Mitcham merges reviews of international relations, safeguard procedure, and politics with a much broader research of society and pop culture, and in doing so, poses vital questions on race, British id, and the belief of empire. The publication examines varied matters reminiscent of the South African warfare, the Anglo-German naval fingers race, Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee, and the delivery of the Boy Scout circulate, and positions them in the greater phenomenon of British race patriotism that permeated the fin de siècle. most significantly, Mitcham demonstrates how this shared notion of 'Britishness' steadily resulted in nearer kin among the self-governing states of the empire, and finally ended in a remarkably unified attempt through the First international War.

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