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The White Man's World Hardback - 2012

by Bill Schwarz

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The Memories of Empire trilogy explores the complex and subterranean political currents that emerged in English society during the years of post-war decolonization. Just as the empire ended, when white princesses waltzed with new black heads of state in celebration of independence from colonial rule, the registers of racial whiteness in the home society quickened, and racial segregation - the colour bar - became ever more pronounced. Where are the connections to be located between the racial dimensions of decolonization overseas, and the colonial dimensions of race at home?
Working back from the peak of Enoch Powell's influence in 1968-1970, Memories of Empire seeks to illuminate the impact of decolonization on the political life of the old metropole. Decisive in this respect is the question of race, or more particularly the shifting dispositions of racial whiteness. The long colonial ordering of the idea of the white man, and of its various derivatives, constituted a powerful component in the ways that the empire came to be remembered: far from disappearing, the figures of white Englishmen and Englishwomen took on new force in the immediate aftermath of decolonization.
The volumes track this story across many different times and spaces: the settler colonies, the Caribbean, in the phenomenon of West Indian migration to England, and the England of Powell and Margaret Thatcher, where these contrary histories did much to shape the political life of a nation.
Through the medium of memory, the empire was to continue to possess strange afterlives long after imperial rule itself had vanished.

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  • Title The White Man's World
  • Author Bill Schwarz
  • Binding Hardback
  • Edition First Edition
  • Pages 600
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Oxford University Press, Oxford, et al.
  • Publication date 2012-01-13
  • Features Bibliography, Index
  • ISBN 9780199296910 / 019929691X
  • Weight 2.25 lbs (1.02 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.2 x 6.4 x 1.6 in (23.37 x 16.26 x 4.06 cm)
  • Themes
    • Aspects (Academic): Historical
    • Cultural Region: British
  • Category History - General History
  • Library of Congress subjects Great Britain - Colonies - History - 19th, Great Britain - Colonies - History - 20th
  • Dewey Decimal Code 305.800

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About the author

Bill Schwarz has taught Sociology, Cultural Studies, History, Communications and English. He draws from this varied intellectual background to tell his lively story of the idea of the white man in the British empire. He has been a member of the History Workshop Journal collective for more than twenty years.

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2011 hardcover as pictured. This is volume 1 of the Memories of Empire trilogy which explores the complex, political currents which emerged in English society during the years of post World War II decolonization. In this, the first volume in the trilogy, the author explores ideas of the white man as they evolved during the time of the British Empire, racism and the anti-immigration from the colonies attitudes which surfaced after the war. Includes extensive chapter notes and index. This history is particularly pertinent in light of the rise in similar sentiments in the US and around the world today. Binding is firm. Black cloth boards with gold stamping show minimal shelf wear. Endpapers clean and unmarked. Several chapters of the text have annotations but remain very readable. Dust jacket shows light shelf wear. Would be as very good except for annotations to text. Your purchase helps support our small village library. s OD5
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