Drawing the Global Colour Line: White Men's Countries and the Question of Racial Equality - Softcover

Reynolds, Henry; Lake, Marilyn

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0522854788 ISBN 13: 9780522854787

Verlag: Melbourne University Press, 2024

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Whoever had created Australia, white men were certain that 'this land of promise' belonged to them ...

At last a history of Australia in its dynamic global context. In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, in response to the mobilisation and mobility of colonial and coloured peoples around the world, self-styled 'white men's countries' in South Africa, North America and Australasia worked in solidarity to exclude those peoples they defined as not-white--including Africans, Chinese, Indians, Japanese and Pacific Islanders. Their policies provoked in turn a long international struggle for racial equality.

Through a rich cast of characters that includes Alfred Deakin, WEB Du Bois, Mahatma Gandhi, Lowe Kong Meng, Tokutomi Soho, Jan Smuts and Theodore Roosevelt, leading Australian historians Marilyn Lake and Henry Reynolds tell a gripping story about the circulation of emotions and ideas, books and people in which Australia emerged as a pace-setter in the modern global politics of whiteness. The legacy of the White Australia policy still cases a shadow over relations with the peoples of Africa and Asia, but campaigns for racial equality have created new possibilities for a more just future.

Remarkable for the breadth of its research and its engaging narrative, Drawing the Global Colour Line offers a new perspective on the history of human rights and provides compelling and original insight into the international political movements that shaped the twentieth century.

Winner of the Ernest Scott Prize 2009

Winner of the Queensland Premier's Prize for History 2009

Winner of the Prime Minister's Prize for Non-Fiction 2009

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Henry Reynolds holds a Personal Chair in History and Aboriginal Studies at the University of Tasmania. His previous publications include The Other Side of the Frontier (1981), Why Weren't We Told? (2000) and The Law of the Land (2003).

Marilyn Lake holds a Personal Chair in the School of Historical and European Studies at LaTrobe University, Melbourne. Her publications include Getting Equal: The History of Australian Feminism (1999), Faith: Faith Bandler, Gentle Activist (2002) and, as co-editor, Connected Worlds: History in Transnational Perspective (with Ann Curthoys, 2006).

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Melbourne University Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2024
• ISBN 10: 0522854788
• ISBN 13: 9780522854787
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Sprache: Englisch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 384