Settlers and Expatriates: Britons Over the Seas

by Robert Bickers

Book Overview

The British Empire gave rise to various new forms of British identity in the colonial world outside the Dominions. In cities and colonies, and in sovereign states subject to more informal pressures such as Argentina or China, communities of Britons developed identities inflected by local ambitions and pressures. As a result they often found themselves at loggerheads with their diplomatic or colonial office minders, especially in the era of decolonisation...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198703376
• ISBN13: 9780198703372
• Release Date: July 2014
• Publisher: Oxford University Press (UK)
• Length: 368 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.1"