Description
About the Author
Bill Schwarz has taught Sociology, Cultural Studies, History, Communications and English. He draws from this varied intellectual background to tell his lively story of the idea of the white man in the British empire. He has been a member of the History Workshop Journal collective for more than twenty years.
Reviews
Professor Bill Schwarz's book dramatically brings to life the frontier worlds of the British empire, not least the settler-colonial experiences of global Englishmen, and the ways in which these worlds and experiences came to redefine the meaning and purpose of empire itself. In The White Man's World, Schwarz brilliantly draws our awareness to the connections between British imperial thought and attendant imperial theories of what he terms 'racial whiteness'. * Dr Ian Sanjay Patel, LSE's Research for the World magazine *
Readers who have followed the struggle over the proper place of imperialism in British history these last three decades will know that Schwarz throws open many doors which have long been ajar but which, even now, await those willing to walk boldly yet thoughtfully through them ... The luxuriously long form of Schwarzs narrative is utterly inseparable from the force of his argument. Evidently, The White Mans World is the first of a trilogy; future volumes should be eagerly anticipated. * Aantoinette Burton, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, The American Historical Review *
Awards
Winner of Winner of the Longman-History Today Book Award 2013.
Book Information
ISBN 9780199686032
Author Bill Schwarz
Format Paperback
Page Count 592
Imprint Oxford University Press
Publisher Oxford University Press
Weight(grams) 1g
Dimensions(mm) 234mm * 187mm * 34mm