How British was the British World? The Case of South Africa
How British was the British World? The Case of South Africa
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英国世界有多英国？
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10.1080/03086530902757688
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2009
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S. Dubow
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S. Dubow
本文讨论了“英国化”一词在“英国世界”系列会议背景下的效用。它提出了为什么目前所理解的“不列颠世界”概念在传统的19世纪和20世纪帝国和联邦历史中出现得相对缓慢的原因。从19世纪70年代到现在的一个多世纪，它调查了帝国史学中“英国”一词的使用情况，并从南非的不寻常案例中得出了大部分经验证据。该论文避开了英国人的“民族”或“种族”定义，而是提出了一种更广泛的表述，能够包括选择性的、带连字符的归属形式。它表明，少用占有意义上的大英帝国--属于不列颠的帝国--而多用形容词的方式来思考大英帝国是有好处的，因为形容词是一种能够考虑到自我宣称的亲缘关系和价值观的描述方式。
This paper discusses the utility of the term ‘Britishness’ in the context of the ‘British World’ conference series. It suggests reasons why the ‘British world’ idea as presently understood was relatively slow to emerge out of traditional nineteenth- and twentieth-century imperial and commonwealth history. Ranging over more than a century from the 1870s to the present, it surveys uses of the term ‘British’ in imperial historiography and draws most of its empirical evidence from the unusual case of South Africa. The paper eschews ‘ethnic’ or ‘racial’ definitions of Britishness and proposes instead a more capacious formulation capable of including elective, hyphenated forms of belonging. It suggests that there are advantages in thinking of the British Empire less in the possessive sense – the empire that belonged to Britain – and more in the adjectival mode as a mode of description capable of taking into account self-declared affinities and values.
大英帝国：主题和观点
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2007
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作者：
Stockwell, Sarah E.
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Stockwell, Sarah E.