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Alfred Deakin
Australian empire
Author_Wm. Matthew Kennedy
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Charles Henry Pearson
Colonial humanitarianism
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Greater Britain
Hubert Murray
Imperial governmentality
Indian famines
Papua/New Guinea
PapuaNew Guinea
South African War
Product details
- ISBN 9781526162755
- Weight: 558g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 25 Jul 2023
- Publisher: Manchester University Press
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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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 center ultimately led Australians to claim an empire of their own in the Pacific Islands, complete with its own, unique imperial governmentality.
Wm. Matthew Kennedy was recently a Marie Sklodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellow and is now a Research Associate at the University of Sussex
