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Drawing the global colour line : white men's countries and the international challenge of racial equality /

In 1900 W.E.B. DuBois prophesied that the colour line would be the key problem of the twentieth-century and he later identified one of its key dynamics: the new religion of whiteness that was sweeping the world. Whereas most historians have confined their studies of race-relations to a national fram...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Lake, Marilyn
Otros Autores: Reynolds, Henry, 1938-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, ©2008.
Colección:Critical perspectives on empire.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • The coming man : Chinese migration to the goldfields
  • The American commonwealth and the 'negro problem'
  • 'The day will come' : Charles Pearson's disturbing prophecy
  • Theodore Roosevelt's re-assertion of racial vigour
  • Imperial brotherhood or white? Gandhi in South Africa
  • White Australia points the way
  • Defending the Pacific slope
  • White ties across the ocean : the Pacific tour of the US fleet
  • The Union of South Africa : white men reconcile
  • International conferences : cosmopolitan amity or racial enmity?
  • Japanese alienation and imperial ambition
  • Racial equality? The Paris Peace Conference, 1919
  • Immigration restriction in the 1920s : 'segregation on a large scale'
  • Individual rights without distinction.