University of Sussex
Browse

File(s) not publicly available

British settler discourse and the circuits of empire

journal contribution
posted on 2023-06-07, 17:13 authored by Alan LesterAlan Lester
This paper draws attention to the ways that free British emigrants made connections between a set of very different sites of colonization in southern Africa, Australia and New Zealand during the first half of the nineteenth century. The paper argues that a distinctive settler discourse was forged through correspondence across an imperial network, linking each of these sites with each other and with Britain. Within this correspondence, arguments were orchestrated not only against indigenous resistance, but also against British humanitarians' attempts to regulate colonial expansion. In constructing different notions of morally legitimate behaviour in the colonies, the paper will suggest that settlers and humanitarians were also disputing the proper qualities of Britishness itself. Their dispute informed dominant representations of raced and classed others, not only in these colonies of settlement, but also within the imperial metropole.

History

Publication status

  • Published

Journal

History Workshop Journal

ISSN

1363-3554

Publisher

Oxford University Press

Issue

1

Volume

54

Page range

27-50

Department affiliated with

  • Geography Publications

Notes

This journal is held in particularly high esteem by historical geographers.

Full text available

  • No

Peer reviewed?

  • Yes

Legacy Posted Date

2012-02-06

Usage metrics

    University of Sussex (Publications)

    Categories

    No categories selected

    Exports

    RefWorks
    BibTeX
    Ref. manager
    Endnote
    DataCite
    NLM
    DC