Settlers and expatriates : Britons over the seas /

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.

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors:	Bickers, Robert A.
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Language Notes:	English.
Published:	Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2010.
Series:	Oxford history of the British Empire companion series.
Subjects:	British > Foreign countries > History. Colonists > History. Great Britain > Colonies > History. Great Britain > Emigration and immigration > History. Britanniques > Pays étrangers > Histoire. Colons (Colonisation) > Histoire. Grande-Bretagne > Colonies > Histoire. British > Foreign countries British colonies Colonists Emigration and immigration Great Britain Electronic books. History
Online Access:	Connect to the full text of this electronic book

Table of Contents:

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.