Settlers and expatriates : Britons over the seas / edited by Robert Bickers.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Bickers, Robert A.

Series:

Oxford history of the British Empire companion series

The Oxford history of the British Empire. Companion series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

British--Foreign countries--History.

British.

Colonists--History.

Colonists.

Emigration and immigration.

History.

British--Foreign countries.

Great Britain--Colonies--History.

Great Britain.

Colonies.

Great Britain--Emigration and immigration--History.

Physical Description:

vii, 357 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2010.

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780199297672

0199297673

OCLC:

646393864