Jesse Tumblin

Quest for Security (eBook, ePUB)

Sovereignty, Race, and the Defense of the British Empire, 1898-1931

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

The British Empire entered the twentieth century in a state of crisis, with many in the legal establishment fearing that the British constitution could no longer cope with the complexity of imperial institutions. At the same time, the military establishment feared the empire was becoming impossible to defend from multiplying threats. In this innovative study, Jesse Tumblin shows how Britain and its largest colonies, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, India, and South Africa, were swept up in a collective effort to secure the Empire in the early twentieth century. The hierarchy of colonial politics created powerful incentives for colonies to militarize before World War I, reshaping their constitutional and racial relationships toward a dream beyond colonial status. The colonial backstory of a century of war and violence shows how these dreams made 'security' the dominating feature of contemporary politics.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Oktober 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781108584852
• Artikelnr.: 62736532

Autorenporträt

Jesse Tumblin is Visiting Assistant Professor and Core Renewal Fellow at Boston College, Massachusetts. He is a past winner of the Saki Ruth Dockrill Prize for International History from the Institute for Historical Research, London.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction; 1. Colonial federationism
security
and the South African War; 2. Lessons of South Africa: security and political culture in the British world
1902-1906; 3. Security
race
and dominion status
1907-1909; 4. The collapse of consensus and control
1910-1914; 5. Race
conscription
and the meaning of sovereignty in war; 6. The sharp sickle: new realities of sovereignty in the British Empire
1918-1926; Epilogue - the Statute of Westminster: a once and future sovereignty;