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1 online resource (vii, 357 pages) : illustrations
This title explores the experience of Britons in the colonial world outside the Dominions through a series of case studies of different communities spread across the world of British power.
Introduction : Britains and Britons over the seas / Robert Bickers -- The British of Argentina / David Rock -- Expatriates in cosmopolitan Egypt : 1864-1956 / James Whidden -- Kenya : home county and African frontier / John Lonsdale -- Rhodesia 1890-1980 : 'The lost dominion' / Donal Lowry -- 'The last outpost' : the Natalians, South Africa, and the British Empire / John Lambert -- Avatars of identity : the British community in India / David Washbrook -- 'Permanent boarders' : the British in Ceylon, 1815-1960 / Margaret Jones -- The British 'Malayans' / Tim Harper -- Shanghailanders and others : British communities in China, 1843-1957 / Robert Bickers -- 'We don't grow coffee and bananas in Clapham Junction you know!' : Imperial Britons back home / Elizabeth Buettner -- Orphans of empire / John Darwin.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Settlers and expatriates : Britons over the seas
Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2010
Oxford history of the British Empire companion series