Marilyn Lake (Victoria La Trobe University), Henry Reynolds (University of Tasmania)

Broschiertes Buch

Drawing the Global Colour Line

White Men's Countries and the International Challenge of Racial Equality

Beschreibung

This book studies the transnational circulation of people and ideas, racial knowledge and technologies that under-pinned the construction of white men's countries from South Africa, to North America and Australasia. It reveals the centrality of struggles around mobility and sovereignty to modern formulations of race and human rights.

Autor

Henry Reynolds is one of Australia's best known historians. He grew up in Hobart and was educated at Hobart High School and the University of Tasmania. In 1965 he accepted a lectureship at James Cook University in Townsville, which sparked an interest in the history of relations between settlers and Aborigines. His pioneering scholarly work, especially The Other Side of the Frontier (1981), was critical in changing understandings of the Australian frontier. With The Law of the Land (1987), this prolific historian increasingly engaged with contemporary legal and political issues. In morally charged works such as This Whispering in Our Hearts (1998) and Why Weren't We Told? (1999), he gave the cause of reconciliation a historical underpinning. In 2000 he took up a professorial fellowship at the University of Tasmania. Since then he has written Drawing the Global Colour Line with Marilyn Lake and co-authored What's Wrong with Anzac?

Produktdetails

• Critical Perspectives on Empire
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 382
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. Januar 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 614g
• ISBN-13: 9780521707527
• ISBN-10: 0521707528
• Artikelnr.: 23543072