Daniel Spence

Colonial Naval Culture and British Imperialism, 1922-67

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Between 1933 and 1941, fifteen indigenous naval forces were raised in Britain's colonies, protectorates and mandate territories, and fought for the Empire during the Second World War. Though barely receiving a footnote within the existing historiography, if examined beyond naval strategy and more in relation to the cultural turn, they provide an important new lens for understanding imperial power and colonial relations at the twilight of the British Empire. Through a transnational and comparative analysis of 'official' and 'subaltern' sources in the United Kingdom, the Caribbean, East Africa, East and Southeast Asia, this book examines for the first time the political, social and cultural impact of colonial naval forces. It explores their emergence in a climate of 'imperial overstretch' and geopolitical tensions, as bulwarks for preserving British 'prestige' against rival imperialisms and colonial nationalisms; the importance of 'men on the spot', 'collaboration', 'naval theatre', 'invented traditions', and propaganda in mobilising colonial 'navalism'; the role of naval 'paternalism' and training within the 'civilising mission', and its social and economic 'development' of colonial 'character'; and how racial ideology and discourses of power fostered a 'seafaring race' theory, influencing naval recruitment, strategy and management, and affecting imperial sentiment, ethnic relations, colonial identities, customs and order. This book thus appeals to imperial, maritime and regional historians, and advances the cultural turn in those disciplines by broadening our understanding of navies as social and cultural institutions, where power was expressed as much in the ideas and relations they cultivated, as through the barrels of their guns.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Lund University Press
• Seitenzahl: 296
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Januar 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 155mm x 28mm
• Gewicht: 590g
• ISBN-13: 9780719091773
• ISBN-10: 0719091772
• Artikelnr.: 42389441

Autorenporträt

Daniel Owen Spence is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Centre for Africa Studies at the University of the Free State

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: The origins of colonial naval development Part I: The Caribbean Trinidad The Cayman Islands Part II: East Africa Kenya and Zanzibar, pre
1945 Post
war East Africa Part III: Southeast Asia The Straits Settlements and Malaya Part IV: East Asia Hong Kong, pre
1945 Post
war Hong Kong Conclusion Bibliography Index